First signs of Gestational Diabetes

[WeGoAgain123]

Hi all

I've just come out of a very bad stint of morning sickness and due to a change in medication I'm getting back to some form of normality.

Yesterday I just couldn't stop drinking, I was so thirsty and just put it down to rehydrating from the last few weeks.

However I woke in the night a few times parched too and needing to down a load of water.

This morning, not huge urges to drink a lake but it got me wondering if it may be a first sign of GD?

I'm overweight and 40 so I'm high risk but I'm only 15 weeks.

Wondering how thirsty you have to be for it to be a warning...?

And what other signs may have been your first warning .

Thanks!

I don’t fit any of the criteria for GD so wasn’t going to be tested. I said to my midwife I’d been really thirsty and had black spots in front of my eyes, she told me these symptoms are highly unlikely to be related to GD, but I then had the test and was diagnosed with it at 28 weeks. So I still dunno if they are linked, but I thought they were symptoms.

I hadn't realised it at the time but that was my first sign of GD - was diagnosed at 26 weeks.

My mouth was so dry over night I was wake up with sore throats and feeling like there was something stuck in the back until I had had enough to drink in the morning for it to pass.

...second sign was weeing loads. I was getting up in the end up to 10 times a night at its worse.

...and extreme tiredness which I had put down to bein pregnant and my under laying autoimmune disorder but since I've been on insulin and my sugars have stabilised I don't need to sleep during the day to keep going. So was deffinatley related to the GD :)