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I know...I mean--what's the point?
I have gained 15lbs and I'm 30 weeks along now. I don't eat sugar, sweets, etc and this last test make me queasy/dizzy and feel off....I was not overweight before I got pregnant and the doctor seems to think I'm gaining weight at a good rate (slow & steady). I would HATE to have to be on insulin, if it comes to that...my mom is type 2 and my dad's diabetes is controlled by medicine.
I am hoping mine could be controlled by diet--but as far as exercise--the doctor already said I'm doing a little too much (feeding the horses, dragging hoses, shoveling/raking) and I walk about 2 miles a day just doing my job....and the longer I'm on my feet, the more swollen they become.
I'm an insulin dependant Type 2 and was "diagnosed" by gtt in my second pregnancy; I wasn't having any high BG and my doctor didn't send me to have my HgA1c checked before the test, which the ADS doesn't consider best practice. I had multiple 3 hour gtts as a kid because my family was part of a huge clinical study of Type 2 diabetes, so my dislike goes back a ways. Ask your doc if you can get a meter, test regularly, and *act like a healthy diabetic* (which it sounds like you already are) without the second test; if you're having
real-life highs then taking insulin is indicated (and not that big a deal with modern needles) but I'd be willing to bet that you only have highs in the face of a glucose challenge, and *staying away from high sugar foods and raggenfraggingelzenfratzen glucola* is going to be the healthiest thing you can do.
I get grouchy about this: my last three hour glucose tolerance test made me go back to having morning sickness for about two weeks after, and probably didn't help with the process that led me to develop Type 2 eight years later, premenopause (I also got caught in the nonsense which was the high-carb reducing diet fad of the late eighties). I'm behind on my medical journal reading, but my last binge included several articles which, shall we say, did not indicate that GTTs have a secure place in scientific evidence based medicine.
Well--I will just have to be even more careful now. I guess...I'm hoping that the second test will indicate nothing is wrong and I will be on my merry way?
I would only want to do medication & insulin as a last resort...I can monitor my blood sugar and do it that way--but I'm really trying to avoid the shots.
