Pompadour
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Hello to everyone! I read this forum for some time and now i need advises and maybe someone has experience with problems like mine.
I am pregnant (26th week) and feel problems with sugar regulation. I am 37 yo and this is my first pregnancy. My mom's father had diabetes and my mother have PCOS. I also had always problems with sugar regulation and stress hormons. Once i had antybodies to islet cells in my labs wich was scary. My diet was never heavy PUFA and almost the whole my life i eat no junk food. Mostly i ate low to moderate glycemic index carbs.
During this pregnancy (about 2 weeks ago) i had an episod of high blood pressure that persisted two days. Since then i started to feel sugar problems almost every day. After high -sugar meals i feel lasy and sleepy and in an hour or two i feel all the symptoms of hypoglycemia. And it scares me seriously.
For now i take Centrum multi vitamins and probiotics (L.reuteri, L.casei - they show to help with sugar issues).
I eat salt and sugar to taste. More then 2250kcal daily: 267 g of carbs , 81g of fats (about 10g of PUFA), 130g proteins. I use Cronometer - and it doesn't show any lack of vitamins or minerals.
Next week i go again to my doctor. And i will have glucose tolerance test. I am afraid to have gestational diabetes and to have to take medicaments for it
So this week i started to eat more cinnamon bark powder and i want to start biotin 15 mg per day. But unfortunatelly i can't find in pubmed any tests with pregnancy diabetes. SO i am afraid if this can be not helpfull or dangerous for me.
By the way, last ultrasound (at 23th week) showed that my baby-girl is a little bigger than she should be... So my doctor tells me already that i am eating too much sweets. As to me myself, i have gained so far 9 kg of weight.
Please , help with any advice! I am just scared and don't know what to do to prevent too high glucose readings in my glucose tolerance test. Just want to do my best to have healthy me and my preciuos baby...
I am pregnant (26th week) and feel problems with sugar regulation. I am 37 yo and this is my first pregnancy. My mom's father had diabetes and my mother have PCOS. I also had always problems with sugar regulation and stress hormons. Once i had antybodies to islet cells in my labs wich was scary. My diet was never heavy PUFA and almost the whole my life i eat no junk food. Mostly i ate low to moderate glycemic index carbs.
During this pregnancy (about 2 weeks ago) i had an episod of high blood pressure that persisted two days. Since then i started to feel sugar problems almost every day. After high -sugar meals i feel lasy and sleepy and in an hour or two i feel all the symptoms of hypoglycemia. And it scares me seriously.
For now i take Centrum multi vitamins and probiotics (L.reuteri, L.casei - they show to help with sugar issues).
I eat salt and sugar to taste. More then 2250kcal daily: 267 g of carbs , 81g of fats (about 10g of PUFA), 130g proteins. I use Cronometer - and it doesn't show any lack of vitamins or minerals.
Next week i go again to my doctor. And i will have glucose tolerance test. I am afraid to have gestational diabetes and to have to take medicaments for it
So this week i started to eat more cinnamon bark powder and i want to start biotin 15 mg per day. But unfortunatelly i can't find in pubmed any tests with pregnancy diabetes. SO i am afraid if this can be not helpfull or dangerous for me.
By the way, last ultrasound (at 23th week) showed that my baby-girl is a little bigger than she should be... So my doctor tells me already that i am eating too much sweets. As to me myself, i have gained so far 9 kg of weight.
Please , help with any advice! I am just scared and don't know what to do to prevent too high glucose readings in my glucose tolerance test. Just want to do my best to have healthy me and my preciuos baby...