Can we remember that dianab is trying for a baby.
7LB in two weeks isn't overly frighten a lot in some repects depending on the underlying problem.. Most women will flutuate durning the month so this does need to be taken into consideration...
It needs to be remembered that when discussing weight gain issues linked to starting insulin, most would have lost weight due to their diabetic condition, so will be putting esstentrail weight back on....
Another factor to weight gain issuse, is partly due to change in most peoples eating habits, when people start insulin they tend to eat more regularly more so on regimes such as Novomix types, where they eat a pre-determined level of carbs regularly throughout the day.. Other insulins, could be that they've regualated their eating patterns, or some can be partly due to the insulin, Lantus has a worse repartation for weight gain than Levimer.. Even animal insulin has the potential of causing weight gain..
Patch
Little bit of information for you,
T2's who were trying or found themselves pregnant, would be automatically changed to insulin thearpy, the reason for this, partly as already said the need to remain in very tight control of blood glucose levels durning pregnancy for the health of the baby...
The other reason, was Meformin wasn't licenced for pregnant women on the bases that it had been implemented in causing major heart defects within an unborn child, I understand that this may have changed in recent years :?:
But in 1991, Metformin was unlicenced in pregnant women, as I was to find out sitting in front of my GP, his faced dropped and he scarmbled for his books, to tribble check! His advice and that of my gyno was to terminate the pregnancy! I refused so was booked into a hospital an hour away from home where they could deal with any major problems, fortunately for me 3 weeks before I had my daughter and the mix-up over adnorm scans had been sorted I was informed that baby was fine, no signs of heart problems so could have her near to home (next town 30 minutes away, no SCUBU at my local maternity hospital)
Worse bit, is that I was never a T2 diabetic, but had slow on set T1, which had been discovered the previous year when I fell pregnant with her older brother (both results given on the same phone call) and if my diabetic consultant had been listening to me, I would never had been on metformin, but insulin but that another story...
Normal or am I over compensating - BG control needs to be very tight (less than 8 1 hour post meal) but I am usually lower than that. SHould I lower the dose, to avoid snacking and be higher after meals? Or have I just pigged out? BMI is still under 25 (just) but this was a bit of a shock!
