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Going crazy with stupid GD numbers

HomelessParrotHomelessParrot
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Anyone else all over the place? I am so frustrated with this whole process. My 1 hour PP readings are all over the place - as low as 94 and as high as 140. My doctor only has me test 1 hour, not at 2 hours - but I've been doing that anyway, and my numbers so far have been less than 120 2 hours post (which is what I read that most of you have to do anyway).

Then I read all this stuff about how you can get different numbers on different fingers, how glucometers aren't all that accurate, etc, etc, etc. It's driving me insane. How am I supposed to know what's real and what isn't????????

 I can't seem to find a pattern at all in what I eat - if I eat very carb light for breakfast (1/2 slice of wheat toast), I'm high. If I eat more carbs (grits), then I'm high. I haven't touched anything but water to drink for a week, I'm not cheating, and still - I feel like nothing I'm doing is making any difference. Even the insulin doesn't seem to be consistently helping.

This is making me nuts. 

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Re: Going crazy with stupid GD numbers

  • DisneyFreeekDisneyFreeek

    As my educator tells me, there is no exact science to this. No the readers are not fully accurate, and she tells me they can flucuate up to 15 pts! They look for patterns. I mean I have been trying to eat a bowl of bran flakes every night because they seem to be helping my fasting. Well today it was 110, yesterday 91. Is it because I ate them at 1030 instead of 11 last night? Could be, but there is no way to tell. You could eat the same thing, the same time, for a month straight and they will always be different.

    Since I just did this last year, and I was all freaked out then, I said I am not going to stress it this time. It is what it is. I try something, if it's rediculous high (Which 140 is not a big deal as that number will usually drop within 10 mins) then I don't eat it again, or up my insulin next time I do want to eat it. I would honestly say that the stress can be more harmful to baby then the sugar. I had tons of high readings with DD1 and she came out just fine, at 7 lb 11 oz. Her sugar was like 63 when she was born, which is perfect for baby. Just try your best to enjoy your pregnancy. If you are taking insulin, all you need to do is up your dose by 2 units to cover what you are eating. It will go up anyway as you progress. I started at 5-10, now I take 74. Here with a month to go I hope to not reach 100.

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  • RubyRed80RubyRed80 member
    Sometimes the numbers do get kind of crazy and for what reason we probably never know.  My numbers actually go up five to six points when I exercise which frustrated me. My doctor told me that for fasting numbers it depends on what you ate and what time you ate and then he asked me what had I ate for lunch and snacks as well.  Now I am on 2.5 mg of Glyburide because my fasting sugars would not go down for nothing.  They are back to normal now but they can get out of whack.
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  • mdsjchmdsjch
    My dr is very strict and I was so worried b/c a few times I was over 120.  I don't want to go on meds, and see no rhyme or reason to my scores.  She told me no dairy or fruit at breakfast, but I have found I'm best if I only have carbs at snacks (less than 15 g) and meals consists of eggs, meats and veggies.  This works for me, but I'm sure she will tell me I need to eat carbs.  I'm new to this, and I'm fine just eating meat and veggies, and very little carbs, but I worry I'm being too restrictive.  I also test at 1 hour and I am supposed to be under 120 at 1 hour.
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  • roonie326roonie326
    I was getting frustrated too.  I found that using bath and body works soap was making my numbers high.  I didn't realize it until I got a high number and freaked out.  I used alcohol to clean my hands and tried again to get a much lower number.  I've tested it a few times and it does the same thing each time.  I checked the ingredients and some use honey, fruit and other ingredients. So much for fancy soap.  There are so many things that we have to worry about with GD.  It seems like it never ends.  Hang in there!
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  • violaplayerviolaplayer member

    I bounced around, especially when I had the flu.

    You're right, there are a lot of things that can impact your numbers. It's all in the patterns. If you're consistently high, that's a flag. But a little variation is normal. 

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  • cathom7cathom7 member
    YES!  PAIN IN MY ACE!  I started insulin a week and a half ago, ONLY FOR morning sugars running in the teens.  Last week, I went from teens to 100's.  So they upped it one more line to get fasting in the 90's.  This week?  In the DANG teens again?  WTH?!  As you can tell, I am Ticked.  I am going to do diet crazy rigid and see what happens till my appt on Friday.  Where I am Sure I'll be upping my insulin again.  *sigh*  This Sucks.
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  • superloopiesuperloopie
    my numbers are also all over the place.  i get very frustrated too.  i can eat the same thing everyday and one day my number is great and the next it is high.  i will be glad when this is all over!
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