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This is CRAZY & it will DRIVE YOU CRAZY if you let it!!!

Yes I'm talking about Gestational Diabetes.

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Today is Week 32 for me & Day 16 of knowing I have GD.

They say knowing is 1/2 the battle RIGHT!?

Week 31 Doctor Appt... (2/17/2010)

Met with the GD Dietitian to review my Blood Sugar level's...

Some days were good & some days weren't but the weird thing is I ate the SAME thing each day & walked 20-30mins after each meal, but I wasn't walking after dinner which was where I was getting a HIGH reading...

Here are a few readings...

DAY 13: 95, 98, 131, 87

DAY 14: 76, 142, 131, 140

DAY 15: 80, 114, 117, 109

TODAY: 83, 105, 94, ?

RED is bad! Here's what they want the reading to be...

1st thing in the AM (Fasting) 60-90

1hr after Breakfast

1hr after Lunch

1hr after Dinner

So she said "you have a few HIGH Readings that I don't like. Let's go one more week and see if you can control it without meds, but we may have to put you on meds to help control your dinner reading." I was SUPER UPSET meaning I cried... but I know they aren't going to mis-lead me! So if I can't control my BS then YES I'll have to go on meds...

Fast forward to Monday (2/22/2010)...

My readings were CRAZY and I was feeling HOPELESS! So I called her just like she said & left a message. After doing that I got online and researched GD Meds... The stuff I read was NOT good in my book! Plus I want to avoid meds at all cost!!! I googled Glyburide, Precosse, & Glucophage. Then the GD lady called me back and asked for my readings... then she said ok I'm going to call in a RX for you for Glyburide. I was like NO THANK YOU!!! She said WHY & I said I read stuff about that med & I didn't like what I read. She said ok let?s try a not so strong med then (Glucophage). I agreed and now have a whole bottle of meds I'm scared to touch!

Back to my appt (2/17/2010)

My Doctor came in and scanned my belly Brianna was head down then we talked a little about GD & how I may need to go on meds... Then she talked about my Blood Pressure which is still HIGH (141/91) but she hasn't upped my dose yet although she said she may at my next appt... She also said I may develop preeclampsia so I need to be on the lookout for swelling of the hands and face among other things. Then she said she wants to give me Non-Stress Test starting around Week 34 but she'll decide on that at my next appt (Week 33).

So that about it for our Week 31 appt...

How am I feeling TODAY?

I say today because each day is different... For the most part I feel FINE! Just confused on how crazy our bodies are!!! I mean look at this... I always wake-up at 9am. Well if I decide to sleep in til 10am my Blood Sugar will be over the limit, if I decide to walk longer then 30mins my BS will go up, if I don't walk at all my BS will stay high, if I miss a meal my body will make it own BS causing my BS reading to be BAD. It hard BUT I'm doing my BEST to NOT TAKE ANY OF THE PILLS I HAVE SITTING IN THE KICHEN!!! So far so good! ps... I only have 8 more weeks to go!!!

In a way I'm grateful to have a chance to see what it's like to live with diabetes, but in NO WAY do I wish this on ANYONE!!! and tell me this WHY don't restaurant have menu's for people living with diabetes? Don't you think if they did it won't be as hard to control it??? Just a thought!

Thanks for reading & Thanks for all the SUPPORT!!!

xoxo

gayle