Morning Sickness remedy may be causing gestational diabetes- any ideas on alternatives?

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I'm 16 wks pg with dc2 and have had hyperemesis since about week 6. I'm out of hospital now and am managing to keep the sickness at bay with a combination of drugs and my own remedy, murray mints

As long as I'm chomping one of my "special sweeties" I don't feel the horrid stomach churning nausea that ultimately culminates in a marathon of toilet hugging.

Saw midwife yesterday and my urine showed 4+ of glucose, so need to have a glucose tolerance test (had one last time round too but nothing found) and she has said that it could be because of all the sweets I'm eating and I could end up creating gestational diabetes for myself

What can I eat instead??? The sugar free sweets don't cut the mustard, chewing gum doesn't work and I'm really struggling to think of anything else that I can try. Really don't want to cause baby and myself problems. But the nausea is so awful I feel like I really need the mints.

Should I just stop the sweets and put up with the nausea and increased sickess- or is there something else I can try in place of the sweets that might do the same job, if you know what I mean. Aaaargh!

I have a few ideas, yes!

Sriously- will post agin when i get back from todays round of stupidity (aka school run and meeting with head and senco) as I do know a bit about HG and meds.

Thanks Peachy, would really appreciate that. Am just about to conduct a similar round of stupidity so will check back in later on.

LeonieD I saw your post yesterday on a similar subject, old Henci really makes sensible arguments. Interesting reading, thanks.

GD is more to do wiht the hormonal changes affecting your body. i had GD, once diagnosed then you have to watch your diet. it may be the sweets in your wee but that does notnecessarily mean u have GD, justthat there is a lot of sugar at that moment in yuor system.

Thanks bethoo that was what was confusing me. I thought it made sense for my urine to contain a lot of sugar if I'd been chowing down on loads of sweets but couldn't see how that would cause me to have GD if indeed I have. As LeonieD says, thought that your body can either deal with it or it can't, iyswim.

Apparently sweet cravings mean a girl baby though so maybe I can blame it on her, if the baby indeed does end up being a pink one