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Re: Any other mum to be's who had diabetes prior to pregnanc Hi anticarb Just wondering how you are doing? YOu sound to be bored, but doing good, must be coming up to 38 weeks soon?

Re: Any other mum to be's who had diabetes prior to pregnanc Hi Anticarb I'm type 2 (since 2004) and am 18 weeks. I was moved onto Novrapid earlier last year and am glad they did. My last Hb1ac(if that's the right order) was 5.2, and was told not to inject so much (which I read as eat more!)...

Re: How long for metformin to kick in? Metformin is a really clever little drug. You do need to go for the low GI alternatives though, granary bread, basmati rice, etc and watch your portion size. What are you readings like? It doesn't 'build up' in effectiveness, it works by pushing the...

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I'm a finance director! I work for a group of companies in the construction industry. Work is stressful most of the time, and the characters I meet can be a bit colourful (well,their language can), so my biggest problem is blood pressure. I make sure that I get up and move about, and...

Hi As an absolute coward and new insulin user on Novorapid - sometimes they injections do sting. I am using Novofine Autorecover needles which mean you don't see the needle going in and it's really hard to not get it in at 90 degrees. Could there be a bit of needle-phobia? The nurse also...

Hiya There is a thing called the 'dawn phenomenon' . Essentially your body starts to release glucose when you wake up to allow you to go kill woolly mammoth for breakfast.

Thanks all Weigth gain has stopped - my nurse said that it's not unusual to gain half a stone and I had recently lost half a stone when pregnant earlier this year (unsucessful but a chromosone defect not the diabetes, Hba1c for first three months was 5.9), so she's pretty relaxed. I know you're...

Hi I'm type 2, but trying to get pregnant so have moved from Metformin to insulin and have gained over half a stone in two weeks!!!!! :oops: Normal or am I over compensating - BG control needs to be very tight (less than 8 1 hour post meal) but I am usually lower than that. SHould I lower the...

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Hi I lost the baby, not through diabetes, but some wierd chromosonal thing (Edward syndrome) - got by Hba1c tested and I had 5.9% for the first three months. Feeling good on that front, but now worried about the 'it happens' comments when I ask if the diabetes impacted on the miscarriage/gene...

Hi Carl I found that by making sure I had eaten some food before taking the metforim, and some after made a massive improvement in the side-effect department. Make sure you eat some of your carbs first, take the metforim and then finish up the rest of the carbs and meal and see if it makes a...

Don't panic. I too was controlled by Metforim (max dosage) and hated the finger pricking. I agreed with the nurse to test my Hb1ac (hope I got that in the right order!) every three months. This was great as it gave me a running everage without stressing me out if I got a wierd reading. She...

hi thanks for that - I was getting the feeling that type 2's just didn't have babies - the nurse at the hospital counldn't give me any information on how often some one was in the same position. I'm still early days (8 weeks-ish) and I can't believe how much the little so and so is screwing...

Hi I'm wondering if there are any people who are pregant and were type 2 before the pregancy. I have had to swap metformin from insulin and am finding control of the post food readings to be really hard! Can any one offer advice? :roll: Thanks