Hi all
New to this forum and new(ish) to diabetes. I was diagnosed with ‘gestational’ diabetes at 28 weeks pregnant, had good control using insulin - my BMI is around 19 and I am physically fit (a runner!). I was tested for autoantibodies after giving birth 15 weeks ago on account of my lack of GD risk factors and levels were high for 3 different antibodies, so this is now being treated as type 1 (that said I still haven’t had an official diagnosis yet). In the past week I’ve been prescribed a small amount of waking and bedtime insulin, which up until yesterday had been going ok (a couple of 11s after dinner, but daytime readings were within target, aside from a couple of hypos).
Yesterday after a stressful evening I had a random reading of 17.4 (this was 3 hours after a meal with medium carbs, same sort of meal I’ve been getting 9-11 readings with for the past week). It came down to 8 within a couple of hours (this was after my 2 units of bedtime insulin). However I’ve just had a pre lunch reading of 9.4. I always suspected my numbers were hugely impacted by stress in pregnancy - is it possible numbers can be impacted to this extent by stress? Last night’s reading has really thrown me off in a big way.
New to this forum and new(ish) to diabetes. I was diagnosed with ‘gestational’ diabetes at 28 weeks pregnant, had good control using insulin - my BMI is around 19 and I am physically fit (a runner!). I was tested for autoantibodies after giving birth 15 weeks ago on account of my lack of GD risk factors and levels were high for 3 different antibodies, so this is now being treated as type 1 (that said I still haven’t had an official diagnosis yet). In the past week I’ve been prescribed a small amount of waking and bedtime insulin, which up until yesterday had been going ok (a couple of 11s after dinner, but daytime readings were within target, aside from a couple of hypos).
Yesterday after a stressful evening I had a random reading of 17.4 (this was 3 hours after a meal with medium carbs, same sort of meal I’ve been getting 9-11 readings with for the past week). It came down to 8 within a couple of hours (this was after my 2 units of bedtime insulin). However I’ve just had a pre lunch reading of 9.4. I always suspected my numbers were hugely impacted by stress in pregnancy - is it possible numbers can be impacted to this extent by stress? Last night’s reading has really thrown me off in a big way.
