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Do i still have diabetes?

Krystal - posted on 04/22/2012 ( 4 moms have responded )

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I realize it probaly is not un-common for 30 something year olds to become pregnant. For ten yrs i was told i would not be able to become pregnant, so to much of my suprise last february learned i was pregnant and my husband and I counted it a blessing! In my first tri-mester learned that i had pre-gestational diabetes, i was prescribed to check my blood sugar four times a day and to watch my carbs and was put on a list of things that i could have...a week after i was put on glyburide to control the high numbers that i was recieving when i took my blood sugar.

After two weeks the pill was split b/c i started having lows like 52 and 66. After a week of spliting the pill, i still had lw numbers so i was taken off the medication. For two weeks after not taking the medication i began to have extreme headaches, keeping me in bed or on the couch and light and noises just made it worse. Since i do not feel i have rested great at all and tried passing it off as just apart of pregnancy i guess. It has been 13 yrs since i was pregnant, so i cannot even compare this pregnancy to my last. Now my blood sugar numbers range from 70-90 and my headaches are not nearly as bad. But, i still cannot sleep good.

My question is this i guess ...if they diagnosed me with me pre-gestational diabetes in my first trimester, i have taken the medication and now have been taken off, what does that mean? Do i still have the diabetes? I was told after the baby was born they would run another test to see what my blood sugar read. In my first trimester they had me going to a cardiologist, a high risk ob and a regular OB. The cardiologist released me b/c my heart murmur sounded fine and claimed during pregnancy it can become louder. But everything was fine. When i called my ob office and told them of my bad headaches the nurse said id have to be seen, so i made the appt and when i got there the midwife told me that they couldnt do nothing for my head aches, id have to see a reg doctor, well a regular doctor refused to see me b/c i am pregnant. So i left the office frustrated and since my head aches have eased some .

I didnt know where to put this but wanted advice from a christian mom. I will be 20 weeks this coming wednesday ..I go to the High risk doctor on thursday, and then to my regular ob on may 2nd. I should be finding out the gender on the 2nd of may..:)

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Melanie - posted on 05/08/2012

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If you were diagnosed with gestational diabetes then yes you probably still have it. However, if you eat better and cut down on your carbs you can control it with diet and as you progress through your pregnancy it may not be as bad as it was. Once you've had your baby you will no longer have "gestational diabetes" and hopefully you will no longer have any symptoms of diabetes at all. However, having it during pregnancy does predispose you to having it when you're older so you will need to watch for signs of that when you get older. Good luck! Pregnancy is hard on your body so take good care of yourself!

Carla - posted on 04/25/2012

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Hi, sweetie, glad you at least got SOME of your friends back ;) I don't understand why people feel the need to hack into peoples' e-mail, fb, etc.



The doctors sent you to a high risk ob for a reason--because you HAVE problems that aren't 'normal' during pregnancy. Maybe a call to your gp or whoever referred you over to this high risk ob is in order. Doctors and/or their nurses sometimes get over-inflated egos and believe their own press. But YOU are the one (and your insurance company) paying their fees, and YOU certainly are to be treated with care and compassion (remember the Hippocratic oath). If you are not having your needs met by this conglomerate, I would ask your gp to refer you to another one. I would about bet he will either get ahold of this place or confirm your suspicions and refer you to another one. Sometimes doctors refer out of habit, because they've always used them, but might forget 'bad press' they have gotten on the place.



I am NOT saying this ob is bad--I'm not even saying freak out and get a referral. What I AM saying is to let SOMEONE know about your concerns! No one will ever know about problems if you don't say something! And just as an fyi, your sensitivity to light could be a migraine. There are different kinds of migraines, and I didn't know that until I was telling my optometrist about my spells of getting 'worm-like, see-through things' in front of my eyes, worsening to tunnel vision. He told me it was migraine. Stress, pain and weather (humidity) trigger mine.



I don't have any definitive answers for you, Krystal, but telling someone, anyone, until you get help is key. So, start talking!



God bless, sweetheart, can't wait to hear what you are having!

Krystal - posted on 04/24/2012

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Hey, its been awhile i think when my fb got hacked i didnt get all of friends back..lol



But anyways...I have contacted my OB about my headaches and they were the ones telling me they could do nothing about them, after telling me i had to be seen for them...made no sense i know!

The headaches didnt come till after i was taken OFF the glyburide and the sleeplessness as well. I am having to go to the high risk doctor b/c incase "something" comes up and they have to see me once a mth for whatever reasoning...lol

Carla - posted on 04/24/2012

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First of all, congratulations! I, too, was told I would never get pregnant again, and ended up with a beautiful little girl--God knows our bodies better than the doctors do ;)



I looked up the side effects of Glyburide, and headache and sleepiness are listed on all the sites I looked on. Also, when your sugar levels go lower, you DO feel weak, sleepy, etc. You say your headaches are lessening, so maybe they will disappear after the meds have left your system completely.



Do you have allergies? Everyone around here is having sinus headaches, could it be allergies? Because you are high risk, I should think if you call the ob, they should be taking your calls and answering your questions, not sending you to the other doctor, to the other doctor, etc. Each site also gave a different number as 'normal' for a pregnant woman, but the general average number seemed to be 70-90, up to 99. I don't know how you are supposed to get yourself 'normal' with all the different information out there, so call your doctor and find out where he wants you.



Sorry I can't be of any more help, but you're in our prayers. God bless!

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