GD support thread

[lollybabe2011]

Tanya,
I see where you are coming from I was in my twenties with first baby, was not overweight, but very strong family history

First time diagnosed at 24/40 was on insulin from 28/40. It took at least 3yrs before I started thinking of another I was put off. It took us a while to conceive and ds will be almost 6yrs by the time this baby is born

It was not the delivery, as I was induced and delivered with 8hrs of getting the gel, think I spent 5hrs in labour from the time I went to labour room, but the whole insulin injections, high risks pregnancy, visiting 2 separate clinics etc, was really off putting.

I was diagnosed at 16/40 this time, and on insulin from 17-18/40, after this I am done, no more.

If you want more go for it, may just give yourself time to be ready

 

[lollybabe2011]

Hi Ladies

Wanted to know if I could join your thread for Gestational Diabetes. I got the call Monday and said that I failed my 3 hour horribly. I was diagnosed as borderline diabetic prior to pregnancy and figured with diet things were ok. The doctors administered my first 1 hour at 24 weeks which I passed, and then at 28 weeks, I failed my 2nd 1 hour. Friday (07/20/12) I had my 3 hour .

I am a little heart broken, and thought that maybe I have been hurting my baby, but doctors say that he's ok. I have never gone through something like this before, and would like to talk with others who have.

Would that be ok?

2boyz,
I think this a normal reaction after diagnosis, don't worry if you feel this just keep doing what you can do.

 

[HellBunny]

I haven;t posted in a couple of weeks but can i just say, if anyone doesn't have any risk factors for gestational diabetes, please please please request a test for type 1 diabetes.

I had what they thought was GD in both pregnancies, in my second pregnancy my diabetes team requested me to get a GAD/C-peptide test to rule out type 1 (my readings were just slightly abnormal in both pregnancies) i thought nothing of it but had the tests done anyway! i went for my 6 week follow up GTT which came back borderline, the nurse told me to have another test in 1 year.
2 weeks ago i ate a chocolate bar, 1 hour later i felt dreadful, i went to the loo (urinated) 4 times in the hour, randomly decided to check my sugar levels, 26.6mmol! I took myself to a&e, they saw me quickly, i had ketones and was in early DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis, life threatening. They started me on insulin right away and i'm now type 1 diabetic.

In my case it was slow onset of type 1 diabetes (my first pregnancy started 2.5 years ago!) so please if you wonder how on earth you ended up with GD, get yourself a type 1 antibody test, ESPECIALLY if your readings don't return to normal straight after the placenta is delivered. hopefully my post can prevent someone from ending up in the state i did. xxx

 

[izzy29]

Flip hell bunny, hope u are ok. At least they have u sorted now, u were so wise to spot the signs and get help straight away. Are u permanently on insulin now?

 

[lazybum09]

I haven;t posted in a couple of weeks but can i just say, if anyone doesn't have any risk factors for gestational diabetes, please please please request a test for type 1 diabetes.

I had what they thought was GD in both pregnancies, in my second pregnancy my diabetes team requested me to get a GAD/C-peptide test to rule out type 1 (my readings were just slightly abnormal in both pregnancies) i thought nothing of it but had the tests done anyway! i went for my 6 week follow up GTT which came back borderline, the nurse told me to have another test in 1 year.
2 weeks ago i ate a chocolate bar, 1 hour later i felt dreadful, i went to the loo (urinated) 4 times in the hour, randomly decided to check my sugar levels, 26.6mmol! I took myself to a&e, they saw me quickly, i had ketones and was in early DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis, life threatening. They started me on insulin right away and i'm now type 1 diabetic.

In my case it was slow onset of type 1 diabetes (my first pregnancy started 2.5 years ago!) so please if you wonder how on earth you ended up with GD, get yourself a type 1 antibody test, ESPECIALLY if your readings don't return to normal straight after the placenta is delivered. hopefully my post can prevent someone from ending up in the state i did. xxx

hi hun, i was diagnosed with gd last Monday, glad you are getting sorted

can i ask what your numbers were?
im in the north west too st helens x

 

[HellBunny]

Thanks Izzy, i'm on insulin yes but having some probs with it so i'm hoping to change to a different one soon i hope. x

Lazybum with my first pregnancy my 2hr lucozade GTT was 8.0mmol (fasting was 4.0) i controlled it by diet alone, basically just cut out sugar and that was it. Second pregnancy GTT was 14.8, went on insulin at 24 weeks. x I'm just outside of greater manchester (bolton) x

 

[sunnydazegirl]

Good morning ladies. Is anyone else having problems with the fasting level? I'm suppose to get under 90 for fasting and im getting around 95 yesterday I got a 104 but then realized I skipped my snack the night before. Has anyone had this problem?

I am having a horrible time with it! They keep increasing my dosage and then decreasing it. I get anywhere from 96 to 100 with fasting, the rest of the day is perfect. I am getting sort of worried that they keep jumping around so much with the dosages ( when I was on a higher dose the numbers were nearer to 95 than the lower dose.

 

[lazybum09]

Thanks Izzy, i'm on insulin yes but having some probs with it so i'm hoping to change to a different one soon i hope. x

Lazybum with my first pregnancy my 2hr lucozade GTT was 8.0mmol (fasting was 4.0) i controlled it by diet alone, basically just cut out sugar and that was it. Second pregnancy GTT was 14.8, went on insulin at 24 weeks. x I'm just outside of greater manchester (bolton) x

So after your first pregnancy. did you have a repeat gtt after the baby was born?
my fasting number was 4.7 then after lucozade was 10.3,
been monitoring my bloods for a week now, not had any over 7.1 so hoping that Will be good when i see the diabetes doctor and obstretrician on Tuesday , also having a scan too
its all scary, scared of what's going to happen when the baby is born, x

 

[hakunamatata]

I haven;t posted in a couple of weeks but can i just say, if anyone doesn't have any risk factors for gestational diabetes, please please please request a test for type 1 diabetes.

I had what they thought was GD in both pregnancies, in my second pregnancy my diabetes team requested me to get a GAD/C-peptide test to rule out type 1 (my readings were just slightly abnormal in both pregnancies) i thought nothing of it but had the tests done anyway! i went for my 6 week follow up GTT which came back borderline, the nurse told me to have another test in 1 year.
2 weeks ago i ate a chocolate bar, 1 hour later i felt dreadful, i went to the loo (urinated) 4 times in the hour, randomly decided to check my sugar levels, 26.6mmol! I took myself to a&e, they saw me quickly, i had ketones and was in early DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis, life threatening. They started me on insulin right away and i'm now type 1 diabetic.

In my case it was slow onset of type 1 diabetes (my first pregnancy started 2.5 years ago!) so please if you wonder how on earth you ended up with GD, get yourself a type 1 antibody test, ESPECIALLY if your readings don't return to normal straight after the placenta is delivered. hopefully my post can prevent someone from ending up in the state i did. xxx

I have my post pregnancy GTT tomorrow morning. I didn't even realize that there was a difference between the follow up GTT and an actual test for type 1 diabetes. Thanks for sharing this experience honey. Thank goodness you checked your levels after that chocolate, wonderful you caught that yourself.

 

[daisy72]

Ladies, just a question, can a postpartum glucose test be inaccurate if done while still breastfeeding?s I had mine 3 months after my daughter was born in 2011, it came out negative. Now I am pregnant again, and at 11 weeks I was diagnosed again with GD. My "old" obgyn (who is also my cousin and whom I trust very much... unfortunately we moved to another country) thinks that it is prepregnancy diabetes . So I thought the test might have been wrong as I was breastfeeding...

 

[HellBunny]

Thanks Izzy, i'm on insulin yes but having some probs with it so i'm hoping to change to a different one soon i hope. x

Lazybum with my first pregnancy my 2hr lucozade GTT was 8.0mmol (fasting was 4.0) i controlled it by diet alone, basically just cut out sugar and that was it. Second pregnancy GTT was 14.8, went on insulin at 24 weeks. x I'm just outside of greater manchester (bolton) x

So after your first pregnancy. did you have a repeat gtt after the baby was born?
my fasting number was 4.7 then after lucozade was 10.3,
been monitoring my bloods for a week now, not had any over 7.1 so hoping that Will be good when i see the diabetes doctor and obstretrician on Tuesday , also having a scan too
its all scary, scared of what's going to happen when the baby is born, x

I did after my first, it came back (2 hours) at 5.4 so normal.
x

 

[HellBunny]

I haven;t posted in a couple of weeks but can i just say, if anyone doesn't have any risk factors for gestational diabetes, please please please request a test for type 1 diabetes.

I had what they thought was GD in both pregnancies, in my second pregnancy my diabetes team requested me to get a GAD/C-peptide test to rule out type 1 (my readings were just slightly abnormal in both pregnancies) i thought nothing of it but had the tests done anyway! i went for my 6 week follow up GTT which came back borderline, the nurse told me to have another test in 1 year.
2 weeks ago i ate a chocolate bar, 1 hour later i felt dreadful, i went to the loo (urinated) 4 times in the hour, randomly decided to check my sugar levels, 26.6mmol! I took myself to a&e, they saw me quickly, i had ketones and was in early DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis, life threatening. They started me on insulin right away and i'm now type 1 diabetic.

In my case it was slow onset of type 1 diabetes (my first pregnancy started 2.5 years ago!) so please if you wonder how on earth you ended up with GD, get yourself a type 1 antibody test, ESPECIALLY if your readings don't return to normal straight after the placenta is delivered. hopefully my post can prevent someone from ending up in the state i did. xxx

I have my post pregnancy GTT tomorrow morning. I didn't even realize that there was a difference between the follow up GTT and an actual test for type 1 diabetes. Thanks for sharing this experience honey. Thank goodness you checked your levels after that chocolate, wonderful you caught that yourself.

Hi sorry for the confusion, the type 1 diabetes test was done in my second pregnancy (around 14 weeks) because i had no risk factors for GD, so they were abit confused why i had it, the type 1 diabetes is different to type 2 diabetes or Gestational diabetes, something to do with autoantibodies which they test for.
Sorry i've rambled on, i'm still unwell with this post viral fatigue, my brains a mess! lol x

 

[hakunamatata]

Ok. Well definitely glad you caught it

I'm sitting through my 2 hr test. Hope I pass! I still have a bunch of strips and lancets so even if I pass I will periodically test just to make sure I'm ok.

 

[izzy29]

Ok. Well definitely glad you caught it

I'm sitting through my 2 hr test. Hope I pass! I still have a bunch of strips and lancets so even if I pass I will periodically test just to make sure I'm ok.

Good Luck. Did they tell you the limits you have to get between or is it the same as when pregnant?

 

[hakunamatata]

Hmm no idea on the limits. I tested my own fasting blood and it was 94 so that seems safe. Not sure what the 2 hr will have to be.

 

[broody1984]

Hi all, I was diagnosed with gd a few weeks ago and given metformin. I'm now 32 weeks and baby was (at last scan) on the average for size. I just wondered whether anyone knew whether in the UK they you go full term/ induce etc? I haven't had this conversation with my obgyn yet as I have only had one appointment and was a little taken back from all the other info I was being given. Baby is also breech at the moment..... I'm doing everything to convince it to turn!!!

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[izzy29]

Endo's consultant told me they induce at 39 weeks unless u go before, obs consultant told me they would let me go to my due date, so that's not much help for you at all as its. Or much help to me. Up at diabetic clinic tomorrow so i am going to tell them the obs said about letting me go to 40 weeks to see what they say. U would think they would communicate, not sure who takes the lead on the final decision.

 

[lollybabe2011]

Hello ladies,
had my little girl today at 37+3 weighing 7 lb 5oz
scan estimate last week was 7lb 1oz
induced this morning at 8.20am,
as water was low on scan yesterday.
she was delivered at 12:37.
It was so quick no time for epidural
she was hypoglycaemic like son as well so needed drip and formula

will update later

 

[hakunamatata]

Congrats Lolly!!

 

[izzy29]

Congrats lolly!!!great weight! What did u call her?