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Originally Posted by notme  I was tested for diabetes early during all five of my pregnancies. My children were all nine and ten pound babies so I think I should have been tested later in pregnancy. I was diagnosed type one two years after my last baby was born. I do believe that I should have been tested "routinely" after the birth of my large babies. Never happened. |
I agree!!
I was tested with the 2 hour GTT (yukky thick syrup drink *shivers*) sometime during my second pregnacy. Probably around the 6th or so month. I don't know what made him want me to test, but the test results were fine he said. This was 23 years ago, when I was 19.
Then with my third (and last) pregnancy, I was tested in my 5th month. They actually checked with one of those urine stick deals at each visit. I had one show high, I guess, they then sent me to the lab for a Fasting Glucose Test and then tested 2 hours later after I ate a specified meal. They said I had Gestational D, so on a "special" diet I went. This was 20 years ago, when I was 22. They didn't give insulin, or meds back then, that I know of.
I was told that after the baby was born, I was to be tested at least once a year to keep a check on it, since having Gestational D, AND the horrible history of Diabetes in my family, made it much more probable that I'd end up with it at some point. I kept that up for a while ... and was always at what they THEN called "borderline" Always right around 140. NOWADAYS, they seem to consider that Diabetic (Type 2). Last time I had it checked, before I was diagnosed last year, was Aug 1993.
