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<blockquote data-quote="hose1975" data-source="post: 270370" data-attributes="member: 44021"><p>Hello, all!</p><p></p><p>I'm pregnant with my second and have GDM *again*. Sigh. Got diagnosed at 17 weeks, on insulin already at 19 weeks. I usually have porridge as for breakfast as I have very little time in the morning to make anything else (and I've never been a toast / bacon / eggs fan - they sit around like a concrete bowling ball in my stomach and I just feel queasy). I have to take insulin to control my post-breakfast BG. To be honest, I'm a little browned off (and that's putting it politely) as I have lost nearly two and a half stone between my pregnancies, taking me from a BMI of 30 to 23 along the way, and I really thought I'd dodged the bullet this time.</p><p></p><p>So far, so like a lot of you (I'm guessing). My question is this: I am going away for a long weekend, which was booked right at the beginning of the pregnancy. It'll be a typical northern European breakfast as I'm going to Sweden (meats, cheeses, rye bread, the usual gubbins). Of course, I don't usually eat this type of thing in the morning so my question is...</p><p></p><p>How do I know how much insulin to take before breakfast?</p><p></p><p>At present I take three (and probably should have four, but I'm dosing up) units of Novorapid before I eat. Should I maybe try one unit on the first day, see what my post-breakfast readings are and then adjust the dose the second day if needs be? I'm pretty certain I'll be eating the same things and in about the same amounts. I will be asking my doctor tomorrow, but wondered whether others have had to deal with a similar situation. I don't want to take too much and fall over, but neither do I want to risk some scary-high readings (and I pulled a 9.9 this morning - eek!).</p><p></p><p>Thanks for any advice you might have,</p><p></p><p>Jo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hose1975, post: 270370, member: 44021"] Hello, all! I'm pregnant with my second and have GDM *again*. Sigh. Got diagnosed at 17 weeks, on insulin already at 19 weeks. I usually have porridge as for breakfast as I have very little time in the morning to make anything else (and I've never been a toast / bacon / eggs fan - they sit around like a concrete bowling ball in my stomach and I just feel queasy). I have to take insulin to control my post-breakfast BG. To be honest, I'm a little browned off (and that's putting it politely) as I have lost nearly two and a half stone between my pregnancies, taking me from a BMI of 30 to 23 along the way, and I really thought I'd dodged the bullet this time. So far, so like a lot of you (I'm guessing). My question is this: I am going away for a long weekend, which was booked right at the beginning of the pregnancy. It'll be a typical northern European breakfast as I'm going to Sweden (meats, cheeses, rye bread, the usual gubbins). Of course, I don't usually eat this type of thing in the morning so my question is... How do I know how much insulin to take before breakfast? At present I take three (and probably should have four, but I'm dosing up) units of Novorapid before I eat. Should I maybe try one unit on the first day, see what my post-breakfast readings are and then adjust the dose the second day if needs be? I'm pretty certain I'll be eating the same things and in about the same amounts. I will be asking my doctor tomorrow, but wondered whether others have had to deal with a similar situation. I don't want to take too much and fall over, but neither do I want to risk some scary-high readings (and I pulled a 9.9 this morning - eek!). Thanks for any advice you might have, Jo [/QUOTE]
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