I got told I had GD two months ago and am now 27 weeks.
I had an appointment with a community Diabetes specialist team.I was told to test my blood one hour after each meal and it should not be above 7.8. They put me on one metformin with main meal after about a week and told me to check blood before meals aswell. They then took me off metformin cos blood sugars was going too low pre meals even though the diabetic nurse had said at the first appointment 'there are no lows'?!? when my husband asked what the blood sugar shouldn't drop below. On my first antenatal diabetes clinic I was told my machine must be faulty as I couldn't possibly be having the low readings so they gave me another machine and in the next month I got put on metformin again twice a day. At my second antenatal clinic I saw a different consultant and he was concerned I wasn't eating enough. I hadn't realised I'd lost a kilo, which I put down to being too scared to eat incase the blood sugars went to high. He said my body was so used to getting low blood sugars that I didn't feel any symptoms and had to snack in order to maintain a blood sugar of more than 3.5 pre meals as the baby needs sugar. Even with extra snacking my sugars were low before meals and then still between 8- 10 on most lunches and some breakfasts. I have to check in each week with the community Diabetes team and one nurse said my sugars were still too low before meals and I might have to come off the Metformin. However the next week I speak to my orignal nurse and she spoke to my orignal consultant who has now put me on another Metformin with breakfast and says don't bother testing pre meals as we know you have lows and they don't matter and don't worry about snacking!!! I'm like what?!?!? Even with the metformin at breakfast I'm getting a higher reading then I did without it! I've tried things like eating smaller amounts at regular intervals. Normally I have a sandwich, low fat yoghurt and crisps for lunch but was getting readings of about 8.6. The other day I had the same sandwich and same crisps and no yoghurt but the reading was 10.3. The nurse who told me low blood sugars don't matter said this probably happened cos I went low and then when I ate my body injected a supply of sugar so surely that means low blood sugars DO matter!! I've got my next antenatal clinic on Thursday and don't know what consultant I'm going to see to confuse me next! I'm going to speak to my midwife tomorrow as I don't feel confident when dealing with the nurses/doctors. I don't want to challenge them but I just wish I'd get some consistant approaches!! My dad is Type 1 diabetic so he also likes to give me his opinions! Sorry to vent with mammoth message! It's stressing me out and I just want what's best for baby.
Anyone else have similar experiences?