Resistance from around 27 weeks...

[Ellie_Wilko]

I’m currently 29 weeks pregnant with my second baby and for the last couple of weeks my bloods have been a lot high than usual despite upping my carb ratio and levemir dose.

For example, I used to go low in the night if I went to bed any lower than 10 but recently I’ve been waking up around 8 or 9 when going to bed around 10. This morning I woke up and was 9, did 16 units of novorapid and 54 units of levemir, had 1 round of bacon sarny and a cuppa with sweetener and 4 hours later my blood is 10.5!

My average on my monitor has gone from 5 to 8 in the last couple of weeks and have an hba1c on Wednesday and annoyed this is going to be higher than I wanted.

I can’t remember if I had this with my first, is it just a normal increase now I’m in the third trimester?

 

[eabhamurphy]

Totally normal. I'm pregnant with my second baby..don't remember this insulin resistance in my first pregnancy. Was on MDI then and badly hypo prone and I pump now. I'm 31 weeks and over the past few days have needed at 20% basal increase overnight to keep in range, this after already tripled on my basal rates. And then a 15% increase in the morning basal today and yesterday when prior to this the rates were working just fine.
A drop would concern me more than a sudden increase. My meal ratios have completly changed, for example I take 1 unit for 3.5g carb in the morning.. before pregnancy this was 1 unit for 12g or more.
Insulin resistance is insane !
I too was worried my HBA1c would have gone up but it hasn't.
I can't wait to just have myself to worry about when my blood sugars aren't as I want then, pregnancy monitoring is exhausting and then with my toddler to manage too! We must all be mad. Hope you are keeping well. Xx