I don't do the GTT and my doc know this. I started testing this morning (I test 4 times a day for a week and share the numbers with him) and I'm not happy with my fasting glucose: 114. I guess I've got some tweaking to do ...
There are two tests. If you fail the one hour, you get to take the three hour.I passed my test the other day, but they discovered an iron issue in the process. Nothing is ever simple, haha.
Question: why with mine did I need to chug my love cocktail an hour before getting pricked and get my results in 5 min, but others have had to wait 3 hours or other strange time periods? I don't understand.
Haha, enjoy your ice cream!With my first, my midwife (home birth/naturopath) did offer it routinely, the standard "glucola" syrupy drink stuff, but it would have been very easy for me to decline it or do the alternative. All the nurse midwives in the area offer the same standard one too. I think the OBs around here would give you a hard time about not doing it but would be ok with you just 'assuming' you had it after a failed 1 hr and doing the diet and finger sticks that would be recommended, without doing the 3hr.
I'm getting my results on Monday, and admittedly bought some Ben and Jerry's to enjoy thus w/e just in case it's my last...
You said you'd tried diet ... did you follow the recommended GD diet? IMO, it has way too many carbs. Meat, cheese, eggs, and low carb veggies might be enough to control it, IDK. A lot of dieticians recommend whole grains, but that is a huge mistake. No grains is better. Also, eat a lot of fat, ie., coconut oil, avacadoes, etc.This GD is kicking my butt. With my last pregnancy I was able to control it with diet, now the OB put me on glyburide, only after I tried everything. I hate taking meds. After being it for three days, my morning fasting sugars were under control, however, I broke out in hives. I didn't realize it was a sulfa drug, and I have developed sulfa allergies over the last year. This sucks. I'm so frustrated and feel like I'm a failure. I haven't called the OB yet, since it's a weekend, and she has no answering service, I'd be calling her directly, which I feel bad about, but this isn't an emergency.
Has anyone tired tri-chromium to control diabetes? I've been doing so much research, my brain is on overload. Does anyone use fish oil, or coenzyme10 to help?
Arbitrary. My OB wants my fasting numbers under 105. He said it's just the number he's chosen. If 97 is too high, what is your doc looking for? Also, make sure you have a minimum of 8 hours after your snack, otherwise it's not really a fasting number. I can't remember who mentioned that to me - someone on here or my sister who has type 2 - but it's made a difference in my numbers.It us frustrating, and I feel like EPA failure too. My husband tells me I'm not, somim passing that sentiment onto you nineteen plums. Our bodies just don't know how to do this. I refuse to believe I'm high risk. My doc wants to do biophysical files every week starting in two weeks. I am going to call on Monday and ask for the meds since my fasting glucose won't stay below 122. It fluctuates between 97, which she says is too high, and 122. I refuse to let anything happen to my babe. I worked too long and hard to get her. I've tried to go no carb at night for dinner and snack, only to wake up to fasting levels @122.
Good luck, we can fight this, we have too.
If it's diet controlled you should be able to birth at home.Harmony, I think you and I are in a similar position - I got a meter because I'm allergic to corn, but my numbers are similar - my midwife said they wanted the two hour to be under 120 - and most of mine are.... A few were 122. One was much higher - no clue why.
Anyone have suggestions for getting enough blood for the meter? I think I need to get larger guage lancets.
I'm also concerned that this will risk me out of a home birth... But if I can control it with diet, I'm not sure why it should? I can't see any studies that show a risk of baby's blood sugar dropping at birth, if the GD is well controlled?
That is really, really strange. Maybe you are eating too many complex carbs? Portion size has a lot to do with it. If I go by the portion size of brown rice my numbers sky rocket!I'm still not sure if I actually have a diagnosis or not, but my midwife did want me to keep checking. I was away for a wedding all weekend, and even though I was usually eating with my (type II) diabetic dad, people kept encouraging me to eat stuff that I knew I shouldn't I've dieted to lose weight before, so I know myself well that way - I know I'll go bonkers if I can't have any treats, but I can have just a tiny bit of treat and call it good! Hard at a restaurant, though - I can't throw food out, either!
So, I had a weekend of not great numbers. But I'm honestly not even sure what the goal here is? I know that you said that doc didn't even know @UsuallyCurious, but it's really frustrating. I'm only supposed to check at 2 hours. If I eat sugary things, the 2 hour is usually fine. If I eat lots of protein, fat and complex carbs, it's high. I'm used to approaching this from a hypoglycemia management standpoint - sugar will spike me up and down, protein & fat will give me a nice, friendly, arc (though too much fat has other issues). Am I totally off base? I get that if one is insulin resistant, that spike up will last a lot longer, but mine doesn't seem to? I feel like I could "game the system" by just eating enough sugar to spike up and down by 2 hours later, but I obviously would rather take care of myself and my little girl - I'm just not sure what that means!