2nd test for GD

Hi Milo1
Sorry to hear you are having GD troubles...I think 10.2 is high?
I had it last time and am sure to have it again :(. Feel free to pm me if you wanna chat or ask questions.

agree with curiousG - its not just sweet stuff and sugar stuff that can make your levels high - white bread, potoatoes - carbs in general when broken down by the body produces glucose = sugar... i learnt this the hard way when I had GD last pregnancy and probably will this one too.

Hi Milo,

I had a high blood sugar level prior to getting PG which surprised me as I'm of slim build and don't eat lollies, takeaways or soft drinks. After studying it quite a bit, I found there's a lot of sugar in the healthy stuff I was eating, too. But I also did find that my blood sugar level would swing from month to month so perhaps you could ask for another test to be sure?

One thing I've done to lower my level is to use xylitol in my tea and baking instead of sugar. It's a totally natural product (made from corn husk), tastes like sugar, but has 40% less sugar than sugar (if you know what I mean). It's recommended to diabetics as it doesn't effect their blood sugar levels and the best thing is, it doesn't contain any apartame or any other man made nasties.

I have also just recently been told about Splenda which is cheaper and easier to find than xylitol. It doesn't appear to have any aspartame but I'm going to do some more research on it first before I start buying it.    

Im not sure if thats high, but I failed my first test with my son, but I passed the second test, so my MW thinks it could be what I ate the morning of my first test, which was just toast and a glass of water.

I had the run around with my last pregnancy, had to go through tons of tests because my results were "too high", panic panic yadda yadda yadda, nothing came of it.

I''ve already told my mw I'll be declining those tests this time.

Milo1 wrote: So happy, i'm sure those clowns at labtests got it wrong! They are hopeless has anyone else had issues with them???

Yes! They were supposed to do an urgent housecall on the Thursday to do lil miss' measles bloods for Public Health, they didn't show, didn't show all day Fri despite numerous calls from my GP and Public Health, they finally turned up at 3pm which was when I had popped out to pick up Maya from school (they were supposed to call first). So I had to take her to the clinic on Saturday morning and it was packed and she got so upset they had to give up and send the homecall again, and again they didn't call before they came and I'd just put her down to bed so had to get her up.

So yeah, issues!