Blood levels

When did everyone's blood sugar levels start to go weird? I'm 31 weeks today. Up until yesterday nearly all my fasting readings have been under 5 mmol. And all my post meal readings have been under 6mmol. Yesterday I had my first high fasting number of 5.3mmol which flagged as a high number and after my meals they were all about 6.5 -7 mmol. I've been eating the same breakfast every morning and this morning I got a reading of 7.3mmol an hour after eating when usually it comes back around 5.3mmol? My fasting number this morning was 4.6. If my numbers keep on rising will they put me on medication? I've only had one red number luckily but I would really rather not me on medication. My current hospital is 20 mins away but if I have to take medication then my care will be transferred to a hospital 2 hours away and will have to give birth there which I'm not okay with. The stress of being 2 hours away from the hospital when labour starts isn't an ideal my anxiety can cope with and the price of fuel driving there and back once a week isn't going to help the bank account.

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My blood sugar levels used to be normal all the time no matter what, to the point where I thought they misdiagnosed me. But around 31 weeks my sugar was high no matter what I ate! Apparently gestational diabetes is caused by your placenta, so the further along you get in pregnancy, the bigger your placenta gets, the worse the diabetes gets. Which is why GD isn’t normally diagnosed until the 3rd trimester. So it’s totally normal your numbers are getting higher! Talk to your doctor they might prescribe something to help lower them again 💕

@Amber my numbers have been completely normal, if not a little low with a normal, not very diabetic friendly diet. So numbers I've been seeing yesterday and today have worried my a little. I know they aren't alarming figures yet but I feel like they are going to be. I'm hoping it's just a little blip, I got a vaccine 3 days ago so hoping it might just be my body responding to feeling unwell due it it 🤞🏻

Diagnosed at 16 weeks and barely saw a spike until 30 weeks and bam, suddenly high 😭

@Emma I've heard so many people say that. Really dreading the next few weeks ☹️

Currently 32 weeks and waiting to be put on insulin. I'm looking forward to it, a bit more breathing room from stress of high readings

They say the hardest time for managing the diabetes is between 32 and 36 weeks so I think it would be normal to see your numbers increase during this time even if you eat the same things. If you’re not already on a diabetes friendly diet and your numbers are increasing then that’s the place to start to avoid having to go on medication.

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