Scared I am going to pass out and not make it to hospital [Archive]

mazea

08-09-2009, 05:23 PM

I have had a good pregnancy with some unstable hiccups but have been confident to fix pregnancy drops that sometimes occur so far. Bub is 28 weeks this week so 12 weeks to go!

During my pregnancy I've had these occasional random hypos, that have only happened while I am pregnant. In these random hypos which my endocrinologist recognises aren't attributable to food or insulin at all, I have usually dropped about 15mmol in 20 minutes. I have responded to the hypos by eating fast carbs, the equivalent of sugar/lollie carbs bring my blood sugar up to a stable 6.0mmol again, so I have eaten 9 jellybeans. But by the time I am 2.5 and eating, my blood sugar is still dropping and I end up at 1.5mmol for a while. Being at 1.5mmol for so long has me scared that if I had waited to check another 5 minutes, I would have passed out.

The drops happen really quickly, my hypo awareness will kick in usually about 2.5. The drops happen randomly during the week and usually they have happened in the day time in the morning or afternoon once a week. My basal insulin is fine and novorapid is fine when I have these drops. I have been eating sensible meals mostly- vegetables and meat and keeping below 25g fat per meal most of the time. I have had a good handle on carb counting and count my weetbix down to the gram lol.:)

Last week gave me a fright as I was at the shopping centre after a reading of 5.6mmol 3 hours after my meal and I started to feel dizzy. I took my blood sugar and I was 2.3. I had 10 jellybeans and felt like I was going to pass out and checked my blood sugar and I was at 1.5mmol. I had 8 more jellybeans and only went up to 4.9mmol after 20 minutes.

I had a preganancy drop at night for the first time last week which also made me start feeling I am out of my league here. I was 2.3 for half the night eating jellybeans. It didn't happen the next night. My blood glucose rose 1mmol the next night. Last week I also had 2 pregnancy droips in the one day for the first time. I feel like while I have managed other normal hypos quite confidently, these pregnancy ones are starting to get out of my league and I am starting to feel unconfident about being able to respond to them in time. The pregnancy drops are getting worse as the pregnancy progresses. I have 12 weeks to go in this pregnancy and I am scared that if I passed out, my blood sugar would just keep dropping without jellybeans and if I passed out in 10 minutes well it would be 0mmol and would not be able to arrive at hospital unlike someone who might just drop 2mmol more when they fall unconscious, I would be dropping 18mmol while unconscious. How do I cope with these life threatening instances while pregnant?:( I am more talking about in my head. What positive things can I say to myself to help?

xMenace

08-09-2009, 06:17 PM

My first thought is a common LADA honeymoon. I'm wondering if you need to drop your dosages.

Train your partner and close associates for the signs of hypoing.

GeishaGirl

08-09-2009, 09:56 PM

Please, please understand that you won't die. I remember someone on this forum (sorry, forget who!) talking about how they had one of the first insulin pumps and rolled on it in the night and got ALL the insulin. When friends came by at NOON they were out, got to hospital with a sugar of 0 -- and they are obviously fine!

Seriously, you can only be low so long before your liver kicks in. And, YOUR LIVER WILL KICK IN! I promise! You may pass out -- and that will SUCK -- but so long as you get any kind of medical attention, you should be fine.

My mom was a type 1 when she was pregnant with me, back in 1980 when there weren't even reliable sugar testers! She also developed a seizure disorder unrelated to the diabetes -- she had uncontrollable lows and uncontrollable seizures while pregnant with me -- and we're both alive and doing ok.

From Wikipedia: " Cases of death or permanent neurological damage occurring with a single episode have usually involved prolonged, untreated unconsciousness, interference with breathing, severe concurrent disease, or some other type of vulnerability."

Carry something more quick-acting than jellybeans -- the wax in them may prevent the glucose going right to your system. Try glucose tabs, or small juice boxes.

mazea

08-10-2009, 11:06 PM

thanks,
I had an appointment with my endocrinologist today and asked if they had a continuous available blood glucose monitor available to rent at the hospital. Seems that they do. So I am starting on the continious blood glucose monitor next week to make sure the remaining of my pregnancy is safe or at least this month anyway. I still have to pay for the sensors which are $80 a week. I told them it's not fair to treat me like other type 1's as I have natural insulin which is giving me different problems to a typical type 1 (lower meal spikes, shorter insulin waiting times of currently 5 minutes, remission cycles, novorapid halving and doubling every 27 weeks, blood glucose dropping 6mmol at 12.00 before lunch every day whether on Lantus or Levemir, blood sugars dropping 18mmol in 15 minutes randomly in pregnancy one day and not the next). This while I had another pregnancy hypo again today not attributable to anything or any particular time.
I feel like I have problems no body else understands because only I have them although perhaps my dad who also had type 1, had them too. It's like being in a minority group of a minority group. lol.
I'm glad it worked out well Geisha girl. Your story is very hope-giving.
I'm glad your mum's pregnancy worked out well Geisha girl. Your story is very hope-giving.

mazea

08-15-2009, 04:05 AM

Has any type 1.5's been pregnant before and had this problem? on the having to eat 18- 30g carbs in 15 minutes randomly every 3 or 4 days or having a hypo of 3.1 for 30 minutes. Any ideas would be helpful. I thought there would be more people with some suggestions on this and would want to help a lady with diabetes trying to have a healthy bub.:confused:

I had some progress today. I ate a big lunch of 7 servings of carbs and a snack for this first time in the afternoon and when I usually have 5 servings of carbs and no snacks in the afternoon. My having to eat 18g-30g carbs in 15 minutes to avoid a hypos of 3.2 for 30 minutes or less improved! It didn't improve by much, but it meant I dropped to 4.9 over 4 hours while I ate the 18g-30g carbs without insulin rather than 15 minutes and dropping to 3.2.

This is really a problem as I've had 3 times randomly in the last 24 hours where I've had to eat 18g -30g carbs in 15 minutes. I started the third trimester yesterday so I think as I am going along further into the pregnancy my blood sugar mechanisms are becoming extremely erratic.

Someone also mentioned on another forum that the placenta can sometimes take blood glucose in a similar way it is greedy about iron. Any info on how diabetic ladies have snacked throughout their pregnancy, eating styles or placenta's hogging all the iron very welcome and appreciated.:) Thanks Geisha girl for your words about my liver kicking in. Unfortunately I doubt I would be alive in those days now because there would have been no way to keep up with the rapid changes I go through as a type 1 when my insulin to carb ratio drops in half every 27 weeks.
I think that being type 1.5 I might have some insulin cells(rare) which is causing unique problems that occur in 15 minutes. It's the 15 minute thing that is scary. (And yes it really is 15 minutes I count the minutes)

mazea

08-15-2009, 04:31 AM

GeishaGirl

08-15-2009, 08:47 AM

These were my readings day before and yesterday. I do correct between meals.
Day 1
waking blood glucose5.6 (100)
3 hours after breakfast 7.3
lunch 5.4
2 hours after lunch 7.9
before dinner5.5
before bed 5.8 went to bed as is didn't correct.

day 2
waking blood glucose 5.3
2 hours later after breakfast 6.3
before lunch 7.9
3 hours after lunch 3.4 (hypo because pregnancy drop)
before dinner 3.9 (pregnancy drop continued)
2 hours after dinner 9.2 (restaurant meal was a bit of a mystery to the carbs)
before bed 7.2
pregnancy drop at 2.00 at night 3.2 needed 30g carbs to bring up levels to 6 constantly

How many carbs did you eat those days? It's possible you're having what they call reactive hypoglycemia. What happens is you eat a lot of carbs, your pancreas overreacts and sends out waaaay too much insulin, and you go low a few hours after eating. This happens to type 2s often and sometimes to type 1.5s or honeymooning type 1s. It happens to nondiabetic people also :)

mazea

08-15-2009, 03:35 PM

It's possible you're having what they call reactive hypoglycemia.
That's really interesting. I wonder why my endo never suggested this. I thought they would know about this stuff. :eek: Which is why I come on this forum because they are not always are able to help me when I have an unusual problem with my diabetes. Its like all diabetes specialists and doctors get the diabetes 101 for all lesson and don't get taught any any exceptions to the rule when they go to uni. Some doctors don't even get the lesson on the difference between type 1 and 2 is not just age which is just apalling. What is reactive hypoglacemia? I haven't heard much about it. I didn't know it was possible to have type 1 and reactive hypoglacemia at the same time. Thanks Geisha girl for suggesting this problem I am going to do a search on it.:)

Some questions. Has anyone had reactive hypoglacemia in pregnancy? How would you manage reactive hypoglacemia?

That you suggest this is quite possible. I seem to have the pregnancy hypos at 2-3 hours after lunch or at exactly 3.00 in the morning even if they don't occur every day. My pregnancy 15 minutes of carb moments haven't happened at 11.00 in the morning for 2 weeks since my doctor reduced my morning Levemir. The 15 minutes of carbs thing now happen in the afternoon instead. I also have to eat 40g carbs at 2 hours after breakfast every morning to avoid a hypo, but don't have to do this for dinner. When I was a teenager, I always suspected I had hypoglacemia in the years before I got diabetes (got diagnosed when I was 31) because I used to feel like passing out if I had breakfast a few hours late when I was a teenager. But I never got tested for hypoglacemia when I was a teenager.

mazea

08-15-2009, 03:53 PM

And also something that might be related to the hypoglacemia thing or other problems. I have tried diamicron twice, once when I was first diagnosed it was prescribed by doctors and once a few months later last year to see if I was MODY. I probably wasn't MODY becasue I didn't respond to diamicron. In fact my blood sugars went crazy on diamicron, and rose 5 mmol every hour for a few days until I stopped taking the medication.

mazea

08-16-2009, 04:44 PM

I had some milk as an afternoon snack yesterday and stayed away from the bread at lunch so hoping this will stop those 3.00 hypos. Thanks a lot geisha girl. I just wish my doctor had told me so I didn't have to have hypos for first 6 months of my pregnancy. I'm hoping this is will help. So far so good!.
I wish there was a book you could buy on unusual diabetic complications like inflammatory neuropathy, type 1.5 diabetes, allergies to insulin and reactive hypoglacemia.

mazea

08-17-2009, 01:46 AM

OK
I had some low GI milk 2 serv at 2.30pm and3 hours later I tested my blood sugar at 5.30. I was 3.2. I ate 10 jellybeans waited 10 minutes checked again. When I checked again I was 2.3. Ate 10 more jellybeans.... and what usually happens is I stay at 2.3 for 30 minutes and willl go up to 5.2. I'm 3.2 at the moment after eating 20 jellybeans.

I am thinking about tearing my endocrinologist some new entry and exit points. :D The specialists given me solutions for 5 months so that is why I am here. Thanks for you ideas. I might try to have 2 separate snacks tomorrow afternoon as the hypos are getting further past 3.00 with the low GI snack. Any suggestions most welcome:) and thanks for the ideas so far it is getting somewhere.:)

It has changed from once a week to every day in the last 5 days. The only thing different is am at week 29 not week 28. This eat 20g carbs thing at 3- 5.00 has happened 5 days in a row so isn't a random thing anymore. I have only avoided a hypo on 1 day when I ate the carbs before I went below 4.5. I didn';t have a hypo, I stayed at 4.5 and rose to 6.0mmol 1 hour after eating 12 jellybeans.

Keezheekoni

08-17-2009, 10:17 AM

My biggest suggestion would be to lower your basal insulin, maybe even split it into two shots if you're not already doing that. Then bolus smaller amounts for the food you eat.

It got really bad for me in the third trimester, I was having a lot of hypos until I changed my basal on my pump to almost nil.

mazea

08-17-2009, 04:08 PM

thanks keezheekoni, I will try spread out my lunch over 3 servings at 12.00, 2.00, 3.30 today and see if that helps.:)

mazea

08-17-2009, 11:09 PM

I have discovered something. :) I realised today after having 5 in a row that this need to eat 16-30g carbs is happening exactly 2 hours and 15 minutes after my lunch. Although it isn't happening every day. It only happened once last week.

I have a similar thing in the morning since May last year when I got diagnosed where I need to eat 30g carbs at exactly 2 hours after my breakfast to stop my blood sugar from falling 30mmol in 15 minutes. (I know I drop 30mmol because in me 1g carb brings me up by 1mmol) I always have a muffin in the morning at exactly 2 hours after my meal.

I also had a similar thing recentlly (just started while pregnant)where my blood sugar would drop 15- 30mmol at 11.00, exactly 2 hours after my morning snack once a week randomly. My morning snack at exactly 2 hours after breakfast isn't covered by Novorapid. My morning snack doesn't have anything to do with the novorapid insulin and so at 11.00, I was having a reaction after eating food. The 1..00 eating in 15 minutes stopped when my Levemir was changed from 5 in the morning and 5u in the afternoon to 41/2 units in the morning and 6 units in the afternoon by my endocrinologist. The 11.00 eating in 15 minutes thing moved to the afternoon instead of 11.00.

So I Know I know that the drop is occurring at exactly 2h 15 minutes after food in the afternoon. This is good because I am now able to plan for it. Today I checked at 2 hours after my meal and I was 5.6. The I checked at 2 hours 20 minutes and I was 4.6. Because I was 4.6, I ate 18 g carbs and avoided my hypo. I just have to be careful as if I eat 18g carbs and it's a day when this 15minutes natural insulin flow doesn't kick in I will end up at 17mmol very quickly and it isn't good for the bub.

I think it may be a reaction to food of that reactive hypoglacemia thing.I know I have natural insulin to have reactive hypoglacemia because at 12.00 today I didn't start having lunch as I was waiting in line at the grocery store and ate 3 jellybeans. 15 minutes later at lunch I was 3.2. This is why if I don't have lunch at exactly 12.00 I always eat 3 or 4 jellybeans because imagine if I didn't?

I hate LADA. HAs anyone heard of anyone else having problems like this. Or is it just LADA or a type 2 thing?

mazea

08-17-2009, 11:44 PM

1/2 hour later after 18g carbs I'm 4.9mmol. I avoided my random hypo.:)

mazea

08-21-2009, 12:09 AM

I avoided hypos today again.: ) My blood sugar stayed between 4.1 and 9. To avoid hypos, I'm eating a morning snack without insulin 2 hours after eating breakfast with insulin (35g carbs as I am dropping 35mmol in 15 minutes), I am being careful I am not dropping 2 hours after eating my morning snack, and 2 hours after lunch with insulin I take a snack without insulin(22g carbs for dropping 22mmol) and then 2 hours after mid afternoon snack I drop 1mmol (no biggie, I'm not worried about that) I am also dropping from 3.00 to 4.00 every night now, so I am taking 13g carbs for sropping 13mmol in 15 minutes for that. It is definantly not related to the basal insulin because my night time reading is stable from 9.00 to 3.00 in the morning and from 3.30 to 7 in the morning. And the drops are occurring 2 hours after meals whether or not I take novorapid insulin. The drops are happening all the time after food.

Thanks so much for suggesting reactive hypoglacemia Geisha girl. It is helping me avoid so many hypos now I understand why I am having hypos all day and the relationship to the previous time have I eaten food.(with or without insulin)

How would I manage if I have to have a c section in 2 months? I think I would be in big trouble if I have to have a c section operation as I could be in the theatre and my blood sugar will be stable and then within 10 minutes drop 22mmol and I can't fast. Do you think they will let me eat skittles on the operating table. Could I run my blood sugar up to 24 mmol (432) before the operation?

Keezheekoni

08-21-2009, 04:16 PM

If you have to have a c-section, you'll have an anesthesiologist in the room with you. You'll have to tell him to check your sugars every 10 minutes or so and then push insulin or glucose into your IV for you. No big deal. Try and stay in the low 100s if you have to have a section.

Try not to though. Try and have the baby vaginally if you can. Recovering from a section *and* having diabetes *and* taking care of a newborn is no fun. I'm just getting back to normal and it's been 8 weeks!

mazea

08-21-2009, 05:01 PM

Thanks Keezheekoni. It's good to know that If my blood sugar drops quickly at such and such a time they would be preprared to test me every 10 minutes and give me extra glucose. I don't have faith in medical professionals at the moment considering they didn't discover I had reactive hypoglacemia for a year and kept blaming it on too much insulin. Someone online solved the problem for me.lol. And know I understand when to test for these random hypos, and as they are happening regularly and not every few days like last week. It's a lot easier to eat the carbs at 2 hours after a meal and test 1/2 hour later. I have been eating and not having them at all. : ) It really feels awful being at 3.0 or less 3 times a day for a week. My brain was like jelly.

Maybe I can avoid the caeasaran until after they give me some glucose if I am close to one of those 2 hours things.

The lack of information available is something the doctor can't help though. Research only makes it so far, not into LADA or reactive hypoglacemia apparently just yet.

30 weeks this week.

I'm so pleased that you are starting to feel better. It would be hard to have a baby at the same time as recovering from a casarean and taking care of diabetes. Not always possible to avoid them though;) to take care of bub.

Taytesmommy

09-03-2009, 10:17 AM

Sorry for the late reply as it looks as though you solved your problem. One thing I wondered though, after reading all the posts, is whether you are eating enough protein during snacks and meals? A lot of Diabetics forget to eat enough protein and it is a huge component to managing blood sugars. It is the stabilizer and also what "stretches" your carbs out. ALso, you should really try to invest in some glucose tablets or juice boxes. Jelly beans and candy don't work nearly as fast as you think, they are not the same. I remember one halloween eating package after package of Rockets to raise my BG and it took forever!! 4 tablets is usually a start-16 grams of carbs, and then fine tune from there. I have had 3 children, 3 c sections and ALL boys and 1 with Type 1 as well. We have a busy but controlled household that keeps our A1c's around 5.4-5.7% at all times. Good luck with it all, you will do fine!!

mazea

09-03-2009, 09:55 PM

My problem is that I could survive with almost no bolus insulin at the moment for lunch and dinner, but wouldn't be good for me. When I eat food, my natural insulin only kicks in 2 hours later. It's like reactive hypoglacemia, which is what I am calling it. For example if I were to do an experiment where I ate 30g carbs with no insulin, I would be 35mmol at 2 hours after my meal of 30g carbs.The natural insulin doesn't kick in at all before 2 hours. Then at 2 hours and 15 minutes my blood glucose level would drop like a stone from 35mmol to 5mmol in 15 minutes. Therefore I can't reduce my boluses as I need to be under 7mmmol at 2 hours for the baby and being 35 mmol 2 hours after every meal would not be good for the baby and would reduce his oxygen supply and give me ketones.

It could be a problem with the mechanism that tells the insulin to kick in I think or sought of like reactive hypoglacmia. Reactive hypoglacemia is where in Type 2, your blood sugar drops at 2 hours after a meal due to a build up of insulin resistance. Insulin resistance does increase in pregnancy. I have to eat 2 meals, one which is covered by insulin, and then the same amount of carbs roughly 2 hours later that isn't.

I think it's a problem with the insulin mechanism rather than a typical diabetes problem. I have 2 meals insulin free yesterday at 9.30 and at 7.30 and had a drop 2 hours later. For eg I ate ate 2 1/2 units of carbs with a needle insulin for breakfast and 2 hours later I was 6.5mmol. Then I ate 40g carbs without a needle of insulin after measuring my blood sugar at 6.5. 15 minutes later, I was 5.0mmol. Then I tested my blood sugar at 11.30 and I was 5.3mmol, I ate 16g carbs without insulin and 15 minutes later I was 4.3mmol.

The 11.30 drop is a bit scary. Yesterday I was 15 minutes late with my snack at 11.30 and I ate and tested my blood sugar at 11.45 and I was 1.1. It drops so fast at 11.30.

I'm managing it the best I can, I've tried eating low GI food and meat and it doesn't show any changes. I have meat every night for dinner, and still have the drops 2 hours after a meal. I am managing this tricky problem by having less basal insulin in the morning as suggested to me by my doctor, having snacks of 40g carbs 2 hours after breakfast, 16g 2 hours after morning tea where I had no insulin, 35 g 2 hours after lunch and 9g 2 hours after dinner. None of my snacks are covered by insulin, and I then have to eat more carbs 2 hours after snacks so snacks upon snacks:eek: . I have had one or 2 hypos a day for the last week, and I'd doing the best I can which is all I can do.:) The amount of hypos is going down though.:D

I ate a fruche last night and then went to 3.9 in the night, ate 2 jellybeans, was 3.8 ate 10g carbs, a premium biscuit with cheese on top and tested my blood sugar 15 minutes later I was 5.6mmol.

skittles and jellybeans bring me up pretty quickly though in 2 minutes to take full effect : )I have a great stomach.

mazea

09-03-2009, 10:13 PM

Oh and the skittles bring me up, but my natural insulin crashes it down again to 3.9 until I have the required carbs (required about 18g carbs that night) I would stay at 3.9 for 4 hours. despite eating a few jellybeans because it is seems to need a certain amount of carbs to cancel the natural insulin out that is hanging around there ready to go Blah. It's sought of like my body is holding onto the insulin and won't let the insulin go if I'm 3.9 until carbs get into the system. It's way cool don't you think? : )

tealas

09-04-2009, 05:45 AM

Wow, all I can say is that you are doing an amazing job navigating a really complex set of insulin responses! You go girl! :)

Sounds sort of like your first phase insulin release is the weak link and then your second phase release is so over blown it goes into the reactive hypogylcemia.

I don't know if you are noticing anything like this; when I was pregnant, by about 5-6 months I distinctly felt like my son's consumption of my glucose and his own insulin production started to make my dosing more complicated. I woke up in the 40's many times after eating quite enough food for dinner - but I think my little kick-boxer was doing his workout while I slept! :D

KayLea

09-08-2009, 12:00 PM

I found out about my diabetes when I was 6 weeks pregnant. They told me that there was no chance it was gestational and that I had been diabetic quite some time.

I went through exactly what you're going through. I would just drop w/in minutes and think to myself that I might do that one day and not wake up. People didn't understand why I worked up until the last minute but it was because I didn't want to be alone. I started setting alarms every 2 hours at night to wake myself up to check my BS count.

I had already had 4 miscarraiges and I was terrified. Turns out I had a perfectly healthy baby girl that they took 2 weeks early. But I had so many complications and my baby is now 15 months old and I'm still having complications.

So did your doctor tell you that you had 1.5? I have had 7 tests since delivering to determine if I'm type 1 or 2. They have all come back type 2 but the dr. says he's reclassifying me as type 1. I weigh 117 pounds and don't eat fast food or processed food or sugars. And I didn't before I got pregant, so he's not sure how I could be a Type 2. I've been reading about 1.5 but my doctor thinks its a bunch of phoey. It's all so confusing.

Subby

09-08-2009, 12:04 PM

Did those tests include C-peptide and GAD antibodies, Kaylea? Do you have a handle on what those results were?

I've been reading about 1.5 but my doctor thinks its a bunch of phoey. It's all so confusing.

Maybe another, more open minded, more progressive doctor could clear up the confusion...

mazea

09-08-2009, 06:44 PM

So did your doctor tell you that you had 1.5? I have had 7 tests since delivering to determine if I'm type 1 or 2. They have all come back type 2

I've been told I'm an insulin dependent diabetic, probably Type 1 with natural basal insulin. My results showed not type 2,underweight at diagnosis, c peptide was low but some still present, no antibodies, genetic history (father and uncle also insulin dependent). It sounds similar to you. I believe I'm Type 1.5. But reactive hypoglacemia is a type 2 thing so who knows? I just treat the symptoms.My endo said he thinks I have natural basal insulin or I take too much novorapid. I don't think they have all the information.

I had an ob/edno appointment yesterday. Everything is good with bub. Average weight, He's doing really well.

I've been told the protocol at the hospital is they will check my blood sugars every hour when I go into labor in 5-7 weeks.

I'm scared of how fast the blood sugar drops for my 2 hour drop not of the actual slow like a snails pace release of novorapid at all. Novorapid is easy compared to these drops in the daytime. Last week I was 15 minutes late for my 1 45 min snack 6 hours after my last insulin and 2 hours after my last meal and my blood sugar dipped from 6 to 1.1 nearly unconscious in 15 minutes so it did happen and I wasn't under any novorapid at the time (Last dose was 6 hours before) if I was under anesthetic my greatest concern is the staff wouldn't manage ithese drops while I had a caseasrean and my blood sugar would keep dropping and they wouldn't know.

mazea

09-08-2009, 06:58 PM

Maybe I should get more progressive doctors who believe in Type 1.5 subby.

Kaylea the thought did cross my mind that I feel really ill just before being put in hopsital because I had a gastro flu, maybe there are diabetes that are caused by infection rather than an anti body response.

I had borderline results in a blood fasting test 2 years before being diagnosed. Therefore I had diabetes for 2 years before diabetes was recognised and treatment was started. The natural basal insulin skewed the results of my fasting test to be lower than it would have been really. SO I should have been treated then.

Or the doctor told me not all antibodies have been discovered yet, it is possible I have one that hasn't been discovered.

Also some genetic forms of diabetes haven't been discovered yet.

tealas

09-09-2009, 06:08 AM

I found out about my diabetes when I was 6 weeks pregnant. They told me that there was no chance it was gestational and that I had been diabetic quite some time.

So did your doctor tell you that you had 1.5? I have had 7 tests since delivering to determine if I'm type 1 or 2. They have all come back type 2 but the dr. says he's reclassifying me as type 1. I weigh 117 pounds and don't eat fast food or processed food or sugars. And I didn't before I got pregant, so he's not sure how I could be a Type 2. I've been reading about 1.5 but my doctor thinks its a bunch of phoey. It's all so confusing.

KayLea, has your doctor mentioned MODY to you? Is there a strong family history of such diabetes? MODY3 and MODY1 (and sometimes MODY2) can land up requiring insulin therapy later in life and they are frequently misdiagnosed as Type 1.

If you search on my posts I have mentioned some articles and other reasources for testing. This weekend I will see if I can submit some links to the resource directory about MODY.