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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mareebah99" data-source="post: 2275513" data-attributes="member: 526128">I just joined and I live in the US.  I have a similar situation- had GD on my first child and now have it on my 2nd.  I’m about 22 wks pregnant and was diagnosed early like around 12 weeks.  I’ve been dieting n exercising and control it very well.  My daytime eating sugar levels are pretty good and almost always under 120.  My fasting ones are almost always over 100.  Like between 102 n 110.  The dietitian n endocrinologist recommended about 2 I guess shots of insulin at dinner but they told me it was up to me.I’m extremely conservative when it comes to taking meds and don’t feel I need to .  On my first pregnancy it was detected way later n my morning sugars were higher than now n I never took meds or insulin and the dr kept pushing to take a pill but finally stopped bc she said my levels were very low risk.  So I get these mixed signals that I’m very low risk and my sugar levels are good.  But then they recommend the insulin.</blockquote>

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