Generally I eat an extremely good diet, I logged all my food and there weren't really any changes they wanted me to make, with the exception of appropriate snacks between meals to help level things out. The consultant wanted to put me on the medication as I am 36 weeks and he said they hadn't got time to wait to see if diet would control. It was only my fasting one originally that was raised a bit. My bloods have been so far: morning 4.3, then one hour after meals 8.4, 6.2, 7.9, day 2, 5.3, 8.2, 8.7, 7.3, day3, 5.4, 6.3, 5.5, 8.6, day 4, 5.3, 6.5, 7.6, 8.2 - it was seeing these that they then started metformin. Last 2 days have been 4.7, 7.9, 6.0, 7.9 and 5.1, 7.1, 6.9, 5.9. Taking metformin. My fear is the medication will have little effect in the time I've got left (they are inducing me in 2 1/2 weeks) and make me feel ill during this time! From what I've read so far, my levels have ever only been slightly above normal (my said my long term result was 33 and again was fine).
I don't like taking medication really unless it is truly needed and I just got the feeling that maybe had I longer to go they would have pursued the diet route first without just jumping in with the medication.