And guess it wasn't really GD, but actually preexisting. GD normally turns up towards the end of the pregnancy (they test for it about 24 weeks). I was found to have diabetes in the first few weeks, which means it was preexisting - but manageable with my lifestyle.
Hi Zoela,
I appreciate you input! I will also be very interested to see the results of testing.
I am trying to lose weight at the moment, hoping it will help the numbers, and have started exercising moderate to high intensity for an hour each day..... but so far it doesn't seem to....
I'll let you know when I get something in. Take care.
Thanks for the details, Sally. I don't know much about GD but looked it up in a book and it said it can be a precursor of LADA as well as Type 2. Your increase in numbers, weight loss (if you're not dieting) and thyroid certainly seem to indicate LADA. I weighed about the same as you do now until I started losing and lost a total of 40 pounds before and in the year after diagnosis. I will be very interested to hear the results of your tests!
Hi,
actually my endo has always suspected a problem and has always been regularly testing, but my levels at that time were good. Fasting 70 - 80 and after eating around 100.
Then I got pregnant with my daughter about 2 years ago. As soon as I got pregnant I did the glucose tolerance test and failed, though the levels for pregnancy are much more stringent that for non-pregnancy. Targets during pregnancy are fasting < 95 and after eating < 120. I couldn't control it well with diet and was put on insulin at about 3 months pregnant. Had excellent control with HA1C during pregnancy of 4.8.
Following my daugher's birth and up until the last couple of months fasting levels are nearly always 80 - 95 and after eating < 120.
The last few weeks of monitoring my FBS is usually 100 - 120, never < 95. After eating is sometimes 110 - 120, but I am also getting numbers of 140 - 160. This is particularly after breakfast if I eat any carbs at all.
So its not yet 'bad', but definitely is getting worse. Oh, I am losing weight - about 5 kg so far - and exercising daily now..... my current weight is 79 kg. Target would be about 65 kg.
Sounds like a good plan, Sally! Remind me how long ago you were diagnosed as prediabetic and what your numbers were like then and what they're like now?