You haven't been diagnosed with GD. Period. Not "yet". What did your OB say to look for?
If you haven't changed your diet, these numbers are all fine. In my OB office, one abnormal result on the three hour test= no gestational diabetes. Additionally, they are looking for below 140 one hour after a meal, and fasting below 90. Please talk to your doctor, and stop stressing.
I’m confused as to what the point of posting here is. You don’t have gestational diabetes. I understand being stressed. Do you happen to be a first time mom?
Who told you to monitor your blood sugar at home because of the 1 abnormal result? None of these numbers (including the one abnormal result on your 3 hour test) indicate GD, in my providers office.
The 1 hr portion of my 3 hr test was extremely high so my providers are having me monitor at home. I failed the first 1 hr at 151, which prompted the 3 hr test. My 1 hr on the 3 hr test was OVER 300, which I can only imagine was lab error. I am a FTM with health anxiety, so the atypical results do concern me.
So, at my midwife's office one value out of range on the three hour test is enough to diagnose, and that's the basis on which I was diagnosed. However, it's more common for doctors to require two values out of range for a diagnosis. The thing is, GD isn't exactly a "you have it or you don't" thing--it's more like virtually all pregnant people have some insulin resistance, and doctors/scientists have chosen a line to draw as to when to consider that insulin resistance problematic/requiring medical attention. That line is based on evidence related to birth outcomes, but precisely where it's drawn is kind of arbitrary. That's why you'll see some people diagnosed based one one value out of range vs others requiring two values, some people expected to keep their fasting numbers under 90 while others are expected to keep them under 95, etc.
I've been tracking for about three weeks now, and my fasting numbers are pretty much all upper 70s-mid 80s, and most of my post-meal numbers are in the 110s-120s at one hour (although the upper 90s and lower 100s are also common for me). Both my midwife and my dietician have told me I don't "really" have GD but do have enough insulin resistance that they want me to keep an eye on my numbers, because as pregnancy goes on, GD tends to get worse/harder to control. Indeed, this week, after two weeks of perfect numbers without making any dietary or lifestyle changes, I had two numbers above range: 143 and 149 at one hour.
Incidentally, both of those numbers happened when I've gotten emotionally worked up and cried between when I ate and when I tested my blood sugar, and the one value that was out of range on my three-hour also happened after I got emotionally worked up and cried between the previous draw and that one. I don't know if this is just a coincidence or if my blood sugar is especially reactive to emotional stress/cortisol or what, but I find it an interesting pattern.
I don't know whether low fasting numbers are something to be concerned about, but I'd just defer to your doctor regarding whether you have GD and whether you need to track your sugars.
This is very helpful, thank you. My providers did not explain much to me outside of saying they’ll reevaluate after reviewing 1 week of at-home BS testing. The potential connection between stress/blood sugar is interesting.
No problem! My guess would be that the wildly high number you had during the three-hour test was an error or an anomaly, since it was SO high yet your at-home numbers have been totally normal, but your doctor will have better insight.
As someone who's been muddling my way through testing at home and adjusting my diet for six weeks now without an official diagnosis or a lot of guidance from providers (I also had one high value on the 3-hour, and I've been told conflicting things by different providers, and sometimes even the same provider...), I find this comment very helpful and validating. Honestly it sounds like my numbers are a bit worse than yours, though still controllable with diet at this point, and yet you've been diagnosed and I haven't! So frustrating how unclear this whole GD business can be. (And I also had a slightly out-of-range reading today after getting emotionally worked up...which only made me MORE emotionally worked up... 🙃)
You haven't been diagnosed with GD. Period. Not "yet". What did your OB say to look for? If you haven't changed your diet, these numbers are all fine. In my OB office, one abnormal result on the three hour test= no gestational diabetes. Additionally, they are looking for below 140 one hour after a meal, and fasting below 90. Please talk to your doctor, and stop stressing.
I’m confused as to what the point of posting here is. You don’t have gestational diabetes. I understand being stressed. Do you happen to be a first time mom? Who told you to monitor your blood sugar at home because of the 1 abnormal result? None of these numbers (including the one abnormal result on your 3 hour test) indicate GD, in my providers office.
The 1 hr portion of my 3 hr test was extremely high so my providers are having me monitor at home. I failed the first 1 hr at 151, which prompted the 3 hr test. My 1 hr on the 3 hr test was OVER 300, which I can only imagine was lab error. I am a FTM with health anxiety, so the atypical results do concern me.
That sounds like an error, especially based on your other numbers.
So, at my midwife's office one value out of range on the three hour test is enough to diagnose, and that's the basis on which I was diagnosed. However, it's more common for doctors to require two values out of range for a diagnosis. The thing is, GD isn't exactly a "you have it or you don't" thing--it's more like virtually all pregnant people have some insulin resistance, and doctors/scientists have chosen a line to draw as to when to consider that insulin resistance problematic/requiring medical attention. That line is based on evidence related to birth outcomes, but precisely where it's drawn is kind of arbitrary. That's why you'll see some people diagnosed based one one value out of range vs others requiring two values, some people expected to keep their fasting numbers under 90 while others are expected to keep them under 95, etc. I've been tracking for about three weeks now, and my fasting numbers are pretty much all upper 70s-mid 80s, and most of my post-meal numbers are in the 110s-120s at one hour (although the upper 90s and lower 100s are also common for me). Both my midwife and my dietician have told me I don't "really" have GD but do have enough insulin resistance that they want me to keep an eye on my numbers, because as pregnancy goes on, GD tends to get worse/harder to control. Indeed, this week, after two weeks of perfect numbers without making any dietary or lifestyle changes, I had two numbers above range: 143 and 149 at one hour. Incidentally, both of those numbers happened when I've gotten emotionally worked up and cried between when I ate and when I tested my blood sugar, and the one value that was out of range on my three-hour also happened after I got emotionally worked up and cried between the previous draw and that one. I don't know if this is just a coincidence or if my blood sugar is especially reactive to emotional stress/cortisol or what, but I find it an interesting pattern. I don't know whether low fasting numbers are something to be concerned about, but I'd just defer to your doctor regarding whether you have GD and whether you need to track your sugars.
This is very helpful, thank you. My providers did not explain much to me outside of saying they’ll reevaluate after reviewing 1 week of at-home BS testing. The potential connection between stress/blood sugar is interesting.
No problem! My guess would be that the wildly high number you had during the three-hour test was an error or an anomaly, since it was SO high yet your at-home numbers have been totally normal, but your doctor will have better insight.
As someone who's been muddling my way through testing at home and adjusting my diet for six weeks now without an official diagnosis or a lot of guidance from providers (I also had one high value on the 3-hour, and I've been told conflicting things by different providers, and sometimes even the same provider...), I find this comment very helpful and validating. Honestly it sounds like my numbers are a bit worse than yours, though still controllable with diet at this point, and yet you've been diagnosed and I haven't! So frustrating how unclear this whole GD business can be. (And I also had a slightly out-of-range reading today after getting emotionally worked up...which only made me MORE emotionally worked up... 🙃)
You don't have GD.
Being in the 60s is not abnormal for a healthy person. It is definitely not indicative of GD, where we have *high* fasting numbers.