More gestational diabetes questions?
I am having a lot of problems with my recent diagnosis of gestational diabetes. I think stress is causing my sugars to be higher than they should be and I am afriad they will want to put me on insulin. I’m not afraid of needles, I just want to manage it with diet.
My Am blood sugar is never more than 100, but sometimes my post-meal blood sugars will creep up to 130. Do you think I’ll be able to stay off insulin?
Anyone else have this horrible irrational fear or stress from GDM?
I guess it’s just really scary, because I had like No risk factors other than being maybe 10 lbs overweight and being 26 years old. No one in my family has diabetes!
I would have loved my post meals to be 130. I dont think that they will put you on any form of meds if you can keep them that low. I was put on metformin (a pill version) only after my night sugars were above 170
I do!! I hate having gestational diabetes. I know my numbers were like yours and I got put on a pill. First it was once a day and now, at 35 weeks, it is twice. No insulin here though. I am not afraid of needles either. I just hate the thought that there is something wrong that I can not control. Good luck to you!
my mom had gd with my little brother. she just had to check her blood sugar level and eat correctly.
talk to your doc. about your concerns.
i plan on asking to be tested for this at my next appt.
you have nothing to worry about, unless your numbers creep up to close to or at 200, i have 5 children and GD, with all , i do not know how old you are , I am 39, dealt with it with diet for my 17, 15 and 12 year old , a pill with my 2 year old, which if your numbers get higher you would go on first, with my 7 month old i needed insulin, but the diabetes never went away, i am not heavy, so it is not my weight, gestational diabetes is a warning to watch out for diabetes after 35, also my 2 youngest were premature, DO NOT USE SUGAR FREE PRODUCTS WITH NUTRASWEET OR ASPARTAME, this is a sweet poison and causes premature birth, also never give a child aspartame or NutraSweet who is under 12
I can totally relate. Found out I had gd at 28wks, food felt like my enemy. I was scared to eat anything. It took me at least 2 weeks to figure out how different foods affected my sugars (I could eat rice but not potatoes for example; bananas were out of the question).
My sugar #’s were similar to yours. I was definitely super stressed, if I drove by a Dunken Donuts, I thought the baby was growing too large to deliver. But I was able to control it through diet alone, though sometimes you just can’t. Try not to beat yourself up over it.
Anyway, my son was born healthy 3 days overdue, and only 7lbs. 1oz. He did have low blood sugar after birth (they checked him for 24hrs), he just needed to eat right away. He’s now 7mths and I’m starting to have to chase after him since he just started crawling.