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I had suspected “mild” gestational diabetes during my late pregnancy in 2020. It was never confirmed via OGTT but rather my own home tests as I got a 8.3 1 hour after a heavy carb takeaway (100g carb.) My third trimester hba1c was 33
I digress. I’ve since had to have annual hba1c’s, which have been 30, 31 and today’s, 32.
I am over the moon that they are still low but I just want to double check my logic as they have obviously gone up one point each time. My 30 was achieved after a strict low carb diet, whereby I ate mostly chicken salads and one meal a day. I have since relaxed my diet significantly and whilst I still don’t eat bowls full of pasta and potato, burgers or pizza etc, I do have treats more often than I should (every day) and snack a fair bit of biscuits and dairy milk iced coffee!
I am hoping it is therefore ok that it has risen consistently each time, as my carbs have gone up over this period too, and that I’m right in thinking my 30 was due to the extreme diet and I am simply just settling back to where I was (likely) pre pregnancy? It’s not the case that every year I will just go up 1 point and end up diabetic in no time? I have a very strong family history of type 2 so I will spend the rest of my life eating with that in mind anyway.
I had suspected “mild” gestational diabetes during my late pregnancy in 2020. It was never confirmed via OGTT but rather my own home tests as I got a 8.3 1 hour after a heavy carb takeaway (100g carb.) My third trimester hba1c was 33
I digress. I’ve since had to have annual hba1c’s, which have been 30, 31 and today’s, 32.
I am over the moon that they are still low but I just want to double check my logic as they have obviously gone up one point each time. My 30 was achieved after a strict low carb diet, whereby I ate mostly chicken salads and one meal a day. I have since relaxed my diet significantly and whilst I still don’t eat bowls full of pasta and potato, burgers or pizza etc, I do have treats more often than I should (every day) and snack a fair bit of biscuits and dairy milk iced coffee!
I am hoping it is therefore ok that it has risen consistently each time, as my carbs have gone up over this period too, and that I’m right in thinking my 30 was due to the extreme diet and I am simply just settling back to where I was (likely) pre pregnancy? It’s not the case that every year I will just go up 1 point and end up diabetic in no time? I have a very strong family history of type 2 so I will spend the rest of my life eating with that in mind anyway.
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