GP's Surgery are being idiots - can I have a rant on here please?!

[PhoebeC]

See i was the other way(lows) but still needing to test 20-30 times a day
Hypos non stop so like you say test to find the hypo then many trying to get it back up
You really don't need the added stress
Don't they know happy mum equals happy baby! X

 

[trophywench]

See this is the prob in preg; you shoot enough insulin to kill that spike post meal in it's track, which will then lead to a hypo so you test, snack (or don't test and snack anyway if you happen to have it bang to rights one day) and then you test pst snack and that's how you go. As far as Baby Grumplin is concerned HIGHS are verboten, HYPOs (as long as they ain't the lose consciousness kind) are fine .... so though nobody LIKES having hypos - you are pretty much stuck with em for 9 months - if you don't want to produce an unhealthily huge and ailing baby, of course .....

 

[RuthieG]

Babysaurus - yes out HbA1cs are nearly identical - that's why I like reading your posts and even better that you are about 6 weeks ahead of me ha ha!

I had two highs (well 9.odd) after meals yesterday whihc is unusual. That is what I was struggling iwth before the pump though. I was having post meal highs (early teens) followed my a massive hypo, whether I corrected r not. I was only ever correcting by a max of 1 unit because it was having such a huge effect. The pump has really levelled things out though. I am still trying to get my basals just right because the doc says I am still having too many hypos but I have been really trying to minimise those the last week or so. To be honest I can live with a few hypos (although I was having about 4 a day pre-pump!) but the docs say I need to watch that more. I know they are right but when you are so scared of highs for your poor little baby, it is easy to forget hypos are not good either!

I have my 20 week scan on Tuesday and am counting down the days. I can't wait to check that everything is (hopefully) alright in there.

I was trying to explain to my aunt how tough a balancing act it is and all I could say was that you can NEVER relax when you are pregnant and diabetic becuase you seem to be only every 30 mins max from your next test!

It is really great to read your posts as I said so keep 'em coming! Any tips you can give for where I will be in 6 weeks time are more than welcome! 😱

 

[Babysaurus]

Ruthie, when my last HBA1C came back at 5.3 I was told that I needed to get it higher and not risk any lower. I had another sample taken last week so will find out what it is next Wednesday.
I don't find hypo's as much of a worry really, its the highs that freak me out. I too am struggling getting levels down after eating in the morning - they seem to shoot up to 11 now, but do come down reasonably quickly with no nasty hypo's (not one's that I don't see coming anyway.) I am trying to get hold of my nurse to discuss this, and the GP situation, with her so will pass on anything handy.
Yep, always 30 minutes from your last test sounds about right! My friends seem to struggle to get what the big deal is too as I have never come across as it being a big deal before. It normally isn't, my control is fine but now keeping it to the very tight guidelines it is 'ideally' during pregnancy is a different matter altogether!

 

[allana]

I love reading both of Babysaurus and RuthieG posts as I am due 9th of Aug, I am however on injections and I am now wishing I was on a pump! It's so nice to hear your stories as it makes me realise I'm not the only pregnant type 1!

Xxxx

 

[Babysaurus]

Allana, Guess we are going off topic a bit now (is that allowed or ought we start another thread?) but I have to say the pump has been great for evening out the ups and downs. With injections I was tending to go hypo in the night, but any lower on the Lantus made me higher during the day (even when splitting the doses there were issues.) The pump enables you to turn it up and down for various parts of the day, and you can even tweak your insulin resistance to get more Humalog in the mornings than in the afternoons, if that's where you tend to have spikes. Its def a lot more adaptable.

 

[PhoebeC]

See this is the prob in preg; you shoot enough insulin to kill that spike post meal in it's track, which will then lead to a hypo so you test, snack (or don't test and snack anyway if you happen to have it bang to rights one day) and then you test pst snack and that's how you go. As far as Baby Grumplin is concerned HIGHS are verboten, HYPOs (as long as they ain't the lose consciousness kind) are fine .... so though nobody LIKES having hypos - you are pretty much stuck with em for 9 months - if you don't want to produce an unhealthily huge and ailing baby, of course .....

See when i had hypos when pregnant id be sick, i had morning sickness nearly every day due to this. And when your sick you cant recover from them so it was a horrid cycle.

Also you should snack alot rather than eat big meals so for this reason alone the testing is needed.

And they are one of the signs of a falling placenta so need to be watchted.

I had a few bad hypos when pregnant had to call an ambulance twice.

To be honset getting time to test now with a toddler is rare so its probaly balanced out 🙂

xx

 

[Babysaurus]

Apart from the diabetic side of things, which has been a pain in the bum, I haven't had any severe other symptoms such as morning sickness. You have my every sympathy Phoebe, I would imagine morning sickness with diabetes is a bloody nightmare! I have found that I am snacking a lot though, I do seem to get very HUNGRY and have to eat immediately. (Its not like a hypo kind of hungry, more like a hungry you'd get after, say, swimming where you want to eat immediately if not sooner!)

In 32 years the only time I have needed an ambulance was about 6 weeks after I miscarried and it was the morning after a wedding. The wedding catered for 60 and there were 200+ plus there (nice people having it, but the whole thing was utterly shambolic.) The morning after I must have woken my husband up (we were camping, as were lots of other guests) and he tried to get me to drink some Lucozade. I could not move my mouth / throat or co-ordinate my limbs, it was horrific! After what felt like twenty mins if this, two friends were also in the tent trying to get sugar into my mouth and I couldn't tell them I could not swallow and was terrified they would choke me - they called an ambulance.
My mind was clear all the time, I just couldn't work my arms, speak etc. It was truly terrifying. I was trying to say to them that I needed Glucogon - I had some in my toiletry bag but it had been there so long, and I had never needed it EVER, that it didn't occur to anyone. Normally with a hypo I may be a bit wobbly / drunk at worst then I have something to drink / eat and am fine. That hypo was another league. I can't look at pics of that wedding now, it both upsets and frightens me.
The reason I mentioned the miscarriage is because the DSN said, as it had never happened in such a way before, it may have still been the hormones playing up so my body was behaving in a different way. I had drunk the night before but not excessively, and tbh have drunk far more than I had that time and been fine. I didn't eat much either due to the lack of catering but have never had such a reaction. I hope I never do again...

 

[RuthieG]

I too have had a pretty easy time, diabetes aside, so far. I was a little bit sick early on but it was never so bad as to affect my BGs really. I have noticed a few changes the last week or so - needing more insulin in an afternoon but less background in the morning (which is more or less the opposite to a few weeks ago but I guess that's how it goes for the next few months!)

Reading about Phoebe's experience and lovely, healthy daughter is very reassuring that after all this it should all end happily!