Gestational Diabetes

[Cavemama]

Today I woke up and was just not feeling so hot- I had lower abdominal pain and had the most horrible burning sensation.  It was Sunday, of course, so my primary care physician wasn't available, but I was pretty sure it was a UTI and so the ED it was.  I had to go to work on my day off...ugh....but as it turns out, that was a good thing.  My clean catch specimen showed a glucose of 500, and a blood glucose was 161, both very abnormal values for me.  Tomorrow I am going to have to go for a glucose tolerance test. I  was both horrified and relieved--it was a wake up call to me to watch more carefully what I am eating.  I have always been a very healthy eater, but I am afraid I may have let my healthy habits slide a bit recently and am paying the price. I know I can't beat myself up for the past, but having fallen off the  healthy eating wagon, it was difficult today to climb back on without beating myself up for how much I had been slacking.  At any rate, no definitive diagnosis yet. We shall see.