Discussion: gestational diabetes

I happen to live with an excellent diabetes educator who would be happy to answer any questions or give any advice should you find yourself in need.

And yes, sounds like a fantastic day!

I will probably do exactly that - I am traveling for nearly three weeks and so can’t do the three hour test during that time - was planning on getting finger sticks and doing a fasting test and one hour post meal tests for a few days to see what’s what. I am super low risk and pretty bummed, but could still be a false positive. Would love some pointing towards good meal planning resources etc in the meantime.

The 1hr screen has a high false positive rate.

I already failed the 3 hour! But I've been monitoring since Thursday and my sugar levels are great, and so hopefully I can be controlled with diet only!

Oh man, that's frustrating. I had another good friend who got it without any risk factors too. Nice job with your sugar levels this week.

Honestly quite a few of my very athletic friends were positive too...including a strong circus friend and a badass trail runner. Makes me wonder how ones normal diet, activities, and one’s reaction to chugging a sugary drink relate. It does seem like the upside of tracking glucose regularly could be that it’s fascinating personal data?

That is actually exactly what the Nurse said - that it could be that that much sugar just threw things into a shock state when you're not at all used to it, and the cortisol can really screw with your insulin release and metabolism. I'm certainly not coming anywhere close to bad levels with my own monitoring, so I'm feeling a lot better about it than I was last week!

August in Boston without ice cream though?! Eep! Might have to do an experiment on that one :)

Wow that was a Day! Frustrating about the GD, but I’m relieved to hear your own monitoring isn’t showing worrisome blood sugar levels. Good luck on avoiding the ice cream, that will be a force of will...

Too funny about the swimsuits :)