I have 2 children and have had gestational diabetes with both. I recently found out after having my second child that the gestational diabetes has turned into Type 2 Diabetes. I was wanting one more child before i call it quits. Does anyone know if it would be safe to have another child with this condition?
Absolutely, yes, you can have a safe pregnancy! I’m on my 2nd and I’ve been a type 2 diabetic since before either pregnancy. Here’s what you really need to know:
– get your blood sugars under control before conceiving. Have your blood sugar tested every 3 months with something called a hemoglobin A1C test. This is an average of your sugars over 3 months. You need that to be about 5.5 before conceiving. The reason is that when it comes to pregnancy, the first 8 weeks are the most important for having controlled blood sugars.
– tell whoever is treating your diabetes that you are planning on more children. If you don’t have an endocrinologist, this is the perfect time to get one. Even your PCP can order this test, but you will have to arm yourself with knowledge about diabetes and pregnancy if you don’t have a specialist.
- you will be considered high risk. However, it’s all about those blood sugars. If you keep them normal you are just like any non-diabetic pregnant woman statistically.
– lastly, I should warn you…pregnancy will most likely make your diabetes worse. Just as you didn’t have gestational diabetes after your first child, but did after the second. Pregnancy puts wear and tear on the endocrine system. I was a diabetic but controlled without medications before pregnancy – after, I couldn’t get off the medicine entirely even though I lost more than my baby weight. So do keep that in mind, that it will take a toll on YOUR health.
Good luck!
I have Type 1 Diabetes and I struggle to get it under control. Does anyone have any recipes for healthy eating w/ diabetes or tips to managing and controlling your diabetes.
Any examples of foods high in fiber?
I’ve been diabetic (type II) for thirteen years. Based on my experiences, may I suggest the following.
1. Make sure you are seeing an Endocrinologist. MDs and DOs refuse to conceed their lack of expertise in the treatment of diabetes. A GOOD, well informed, Physicians Assistant is also a great help. They can spend the necessary time to talk to you.
2. Traditionally, the prescribed diet is 60% Carbs, 25% Protein and 10-15% fat. It NEVER worked for me. Now I try to eat 70% protein, 15% Carbs and a little fat (it is needed).
3. The really bad news is NO PASTA, WHITE POTATOES, BUTTERED TOAST, PANCAKES or WAFFLES. Starch and gluten are very bad for us. If you must have some to cure a craving, eat a small portion and then exercise (get on a bicycle, walk fast for a few miles) BURN the carbs up.
4. Oddly enough, my glucose does rise if I eat strawberries or blueberries but it recedes within two hours. It just goes to show you that every diabetic’s body reacts to foods in different ways.
All I can offer is a diet high in proteins and serious daily exercise works very well for me. Just let the physician or PA know so they can check your kindney output.
While I personally am not an exercise freak, it beats the hell out of losing body parts or blindness.
Good luck!
Big Lou
longstridelouie@yahoo.com
I think I could be pregnant but I am not 100% sure, but my brother was recently diagnosed with diabetes and some of the symptoms are the same. Is it possible to get these two confused?
Well, some symptoms are the same – like being thirsty and needing to pee a lot, although this tends to happen later in the pregnancy because the baby is pressing on the bladder. Fainting is also a sign of both.
However, there are also a lot of symptoms that don’t overlap and I personally haven’t heard of anyone thinking they were one and found they were the other. Your best bet is to take a pregnancy test and if it comes out negative go and see your GP, who will do a blood test and then you can get a definitive answer one way or the other.
I’m so disappointed in myself. I haven’t been in total control of my diabetes and have been eating pretty crappy lately. Well, I just weighed myself and haven’t in about a little over a month and just found out a gained close to 10 pounds, when I already had 25 to lose!!! I’m almost in tears at the thought of weighing what I do right now forever. Is it possible to just eat healthy and excersize and lose weight like a normal person even though I have diabetes type 1?
I’ll be honest with you. I’ve been type 1 since I was 1 year old. All of my life my motto has been ‘it’s the quality of life not quantity’. I’m 38, have had very mild complications, a rough pregnancy and have never been a model diabetic. I enjoy food, especially carbs, and a beer. My a1c is typically a 7. It took me a very long time, 10+years, to loose the pregnancy weight but I’m now 114lbs. I do take lots of vitamins and try to work out at least 3 times a week. I’m a true believer in small portions of any crappy foods. It satisfies my craving and makes me happy too. Six small meals a day helped with the weight too.
You may also want to get your thyroid checked. It is common for type 1 diabetics to develop an under active thyroid. The blood test is called a THS.
Good luck in your search for answers.
also whats the diff between type one and type 2
Yes, you can still get diabetes type 2. (Although less likely)
The difference between type 1 and 2 are:
Type 1: your body doesnt produce insulin.(or insuffient amounts of insulin)
Types 2: Your body doesnt absorb the Insulin as well.(usually over time)
Types 1 and 2 can both be developed but most people have type 2 because of lack of exercise and a poor diet and obesity)
I kept injecting my Insulin on my stomach not knowing that the fat was going to accumulate and now I have two big bumps of fat on each side of my belly button. I already stopped injecting in the area. Is there other things I can do to help reduce the bumps?
Thanks for the answers. I would like to know how long do they take to go away? I have been working out and have lost about 10 pounds but I can still see the bumps in my stomach. How long will they take to go away?
You should talk to your doctor about it and ask him or her to approve other injection sites. I had a client this happened to, so she used her shoulder for a long time while the bumps on her belly went away. When that got too sore, she went back to her belly for a while, until the bumps developed again. Then she’d change to a different injection site. It’s good to rotate injection sites anyway. The bumps go away after a while.
I have had odd symptoms for a while now and I never knew that any of them could be related. I was reading this website about diabetes and they seem to all fit. I have had
dizzyness
trouble sleeping through the night
blurred vision
constant bladder infections
tingling in my legs
very very dizzy if i miss even one meal
trouble with arousal
what do you think?
Go to your doctor asap. You seem to have some of the symptoms, others being always thirsty.
I am a 35 year old female and have Type 2 Diabetes. I have a 6 month old and am now 7 weeks pregnant again. Since my husband and I feel we are not ready to have another baby, we are planning to terminate the pregnancy.
What are the risks of medical termination of pregnancy for a diabetic patient?
I had a C-section delivery of my first baby. Does it factor in ?
Don’t have an abortion that’s evil believe me after you do it then your gonna feel bad and that’s gonna be on your conscious that you KILLED your OWN CHILD,,,please don’t do it,,,just ask your doc if there’s some ways that you could have a perfectly healthy baby…oh yeah p.s. you should have wrapped it up if you didn’t want to get pregnant again,,,not trying to sound ignorant but ain’t that how you got preg in the first place
My Type 1 Diabetes was caused by mumps
To make it simple.
The pancreas produces insulin.
Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas. The pancreatic inflammation is so severe that you could say that the pancreas autodestroys itself with all the enzymes it produces to digest food. This enzymes engorge the pancreas and destroy its specialized tissues. Because of this you loose pancreatic tissue with it’s islets (special islets produce insulin) and therefore with no Insulin you become diabetic type: insulin dependant.
Hi I know diabetes type 1 is not genetic or contagious but I was wondering if pancreatis could give you diabetes or anything else such as giving your body to much sugar so the insulin cannot keep up and works so vigorously, the beta cells get worn out. Any help would be appreciated! I was just curious!
Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease, meaning that the body is attacking itself. In this case, the body is destroying its own beta cells, which are the cells that help produce insulin. It usually develops in younger people, usually under the age of 15 or 20. You can’t give yourself type 1 diabetes, and you can’t do anything to avoid getting it.
People can increase their chances of developing type 2 by not exercising, having bad eating habits, or taking certain prescription medications like the steroid Prednisone for long periods of time. Untreated pancreatitis can also increase the chances of developing type 2, and in some cases, directly cause its onset.
There’s a theory floating around that giving yourself just a little bit of insulin everyday for a long period of time can cause your body to slowly stop producing its own and become dependent on the outside source. This could cause diabetes, but it’s only an idea as far as I know. No one in their right mind would be dumb enough to test it because too much insulin is dangerous, low blood sugar sucks, and there’s no guide as to the "safe" level for outside Insulin in non diabetics.
Hope this at least partly satisfied your curiosity!
