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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doireallyneedanams" data-source="post: 2369017" data-attributes="member: 519124">It seems they’ve changed the wording.It now says “women with previous GD are at higher risk of type 2 or undiagnosed type 2, and are therefore at high risk and should be shielded”Fair enough, but why high risk enough to shield if diabetics are not? I thought the new changes meant all diabetics were eligible for a vaccine now, but in group 6 (and therefore not shielding)Over the months I thought it had been established that diabetics with good control were at no more risk than the general population?Seemingly Covid wreaks havoc on glucose which is troublesome. A lady on one of my GD groups has annual hba1c’s which are all in the normal range however when she had Covid she decided to check her bloods and was seeing 11 & 12’s. Thinking about it, I’m not sure those numbers are actually that dangerous given the circumstances? I was expecting the issue to be much higher glucose but nonetheless it does set an example.Maybe it is a precaution to help stop a tonne of women already prone to diabetes developing type 2 after covid, which really would be a problem not only in the short term but if covid is “something we are going to learn to live with” then allowing millions more people to fall into the high risk category would be foolish.Given my team weren’t even certain I had gestational diabetes, this is an insane amount of guesswork for me to deal with.After my GD “diagnosis” I became obsessed with the idea that I just have undiagnosed type 2, given I have 2 siblings recently diagnosed in their 50’s. I managed to try and rationalise it by remembering my hba1c during pregnancy was 33 and fasting always below 4.5. I figured it would be almost impossible for an undiagnosed diabetic to have a fasting of 4.5. But now, seems it doesn’t even matter anymore because I’m still at risk regardless.I want to apologise in advance for moaning to a bunch of diabetics about my situation, I think it probably reads quite insensitive - but I’m sure you all have or had similar feelings at one time or another, and most people wouldn’t understand. Diabetes is not something that I ever thought of until my siblings were diagnosed. It was just one of those things that happened to other people. There’s definitely not enough education about it or warnings anywhere to be seen like there is with smoking etc! “Smoking kills” they say. Well, “do you have a family historic of type 2? Are you a carb fiend? Think twice - you’re at risk.” Where’s that to be seen? That’s me by the way, I was the carb fiend!The irony is, my siblings with diabetes aren’t willing to have the vaccine. They won’t be guinea pigs, apparently. And then there’s me. Oh dear - what a year.</blockquote>

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