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Some pregnant women with gestational diabetes have the symptoms of diabetes that are associated with high blood glucose (hyperglycemia). These include:
Increased thirst
More frequent urination
Weight loss despite increased appetite
Fatigue
Nausea or vomiting
Yeast infections
Blurred vision
However, some women have no recognizable symptoms, which is why screening tests for this disease are recommended for almost all pregnant women.

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Personally I had no symptoms. My son was large for dates and is still large even now (4 years later) but was not diabetic when pregnant with his sister. I found that I was constantly nibbling on healthy snacks, not eating large meals, and somewhat more tired than normal. I thought that was more related to my thyroid level being low due to the pregnancy than from the diabetes. Once my thyroid level was back on track, the tiredness was gone as well.

I controlled my sugars by watching what I was eating and exercising at an appropriate level for my prego belly for many months. I found out that i was pregnant and a month later I learned that I was diabetic. Was unable to determine if true diabetic or just while prego until after the birth.Towards the end of my pregancy, I ended up on two insulin needles to control the blood sugar levels and complete bed rest for a bleeding issue (not related to diabetes). I delivered a healthy boy 10lbs 9 oz only two days past my due date, and was okay sugarwise ever since. I was checked for several days and everything was normal. Turned out that i was only gestationally diabetic.

Everyone is different, and the best advise is to go to a Dr to ask for the screening test. Keep eating healthy and good luck.

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Your doctor made you get the test b/c its routine, everyone gets it done, I have to do mine on september 11th!!! I will be 24 weeks, usually the testing is done between 24-28 weeks. It effects about 4% of pregnancies, and you do not have to be overweight to get it. Here is how it can affect baby

Gestational diabetes affects the mother in late pregnancy, after the baby’s body has been formed, but while the baby is busy growing. Because of this, gestational diabetes does not cause the kinds of birth defects sometimes seen in babies whose mothers had diabetes before pregnancy.

However, untreated or poorly controlled gestational diabetes can hurt your baby. When you have gestational diabetes, your pancreas works overtime to produce insulin, but the insulin does not lower your blood glucose levels. Although insulin does not cross the placenta, glucose and other nutrients do. So extra blood glucose goes through the placenta, giving the baby high blood glucose levels. This causes the baby’s pancreas to make extra insulin to get rid of the blood glucose. Since the baby is getting more energy than it needs to grow and develop, the extra energy is stored as fat.

This can lead to macrosomia, or a “fat” baby. Babies with macrosomia face health problems of their own, including damage to their shoulders during birth. Because of the extra insulin made by the baby’s pancreas, newborns may have very low blood glucose levels at birth and are also at higher risk for breathing problems. Babies with excess insulin become children who are at risk for obesity and adults who are at risk for type 2 diabetes.

Http://www.diabetes.org/gestational-diabetes.jsp

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I had Gestational Diabetes with my 4th pregnancy. Your weight prior to the pregnancy could put you at a higher risk, but your weight gain during pregnancy isn’t considered a factor. With me, my husband and I conceived quite unexpectedly when I was reliably taking birth control pills for 11 years. I did not find out I was pregnant until I was already 17 weeks along. I was overweight at the time. I had no signs of pregnancy, but I was experiencing stomach pain (not nausea or vomiting) whenever I ate plus I had heart burn, something new to me. At first my doctor thought I might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Boy, were we all shocked when we found out that wasn’t my problem! When I gave birth, I actually weighed 25 pounds less than what I weighed at my previous year’s yearly physical. Gestational Diabetes is not caused by what you eat. What happens is the placenta produces the pregnancy hormone that causes cells to be insulin resistant. In most cases the pregnant woman’s pancreas is able to produce the additional insulin needed. However, in about 3-5% of women, the pancreas can’t keep up with the demand and too much sugar gets into the blood stream. It is a common misconception that this “sugar” is the white granulated stuff that we put in coffee and on cereal. Instead, this type of “sugar” is actually what all carbohydrates turn into in our system to give us energy, the fuel our bodies need to function. Carbohydrates are found in breads, cereals, grains, pasta, rice, fruit, juice, milk, yogurt, legumes (dried beans), starchy vegetables (potatoes, corn, green peas), starchy snacks (chips, crackers) as well as the commonly known sweet snacks. Routine blood and urine tests can indicate a risk for diabetes, but you will need to have a 1 hour glucose tolerance test around 24-28 weeks. You will drink a glucose solution, wait 1 hour, and have a blood draw. This shows how well your system is metabolizing “sugars”. If your numbers are above normal (not uncommon) then you will be sent for a 3 hour glucose tolerance test. If this test shows you have Gestational Diabetes than you will be given a meal plan to follow as well as a glucose monitor to regularly test your blood glucose levels plus you will have more frequent prenatal visits. Some women can not manage their blood glucose numbers with diet alone and require insulin shots, but not every woman does. Some babies born to women with Gestational Diabetes are larger than average, but not all are. After the baby is born, most specifically after the placenta is delivered, the Gestational Diabetes is usually gone. Gestational Diabetes does not have any real symptoms of its own as most of the things commonly related to diabetes are also common in pregnancy anyway. That is why the routine glucose tolerance test is used. Women who have had Gestational Diabetes are at a greater risk for developing Type 2 Diabetes later in life. I currently am diagnosed with Glucose Intolerance, a pre-diabetic condition, so I am once again following a meal plan, monitoring my blood glucose levels and seeing the doctor trying to ward off full-blown Type 2 Diabetes as long as I can. ADDED: You can not diagnose Gestational Diabetes based only on symptoms since they all can be related to normal pregnancy issues. Increased thirst, frequent urination, hunger, headaches, blurry vision, fatique, and dry skin can be diabetes signs, but they are also common during pregnancy.

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No. I know if you have major out of control diabetes (for a long time) you can get nerve damage.

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Because Insulin burns your arteries, so the more imbalance in your blood-sugar, the more damage you get to your Cardiovascular system.

And the Blindness is caused by the vessels in your eye, getting damaged.

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No

MS is a disorder of the nervous system and causes involuntary movement and a number of other related problems.

Diabetes can cause peripheral vascular disease which is basically decreased blood flow to the extremites eg limbs. Tissues in this area begin to die. Out of these two conditions it would be diabetes that cause the lady to lose her limb.

Definitely diabetes

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There are sooooo many other things that those symtoms could be a part of
diabetes runs in my family, so i hav to watch out for it too
one of the biggest symptoms if your hands get cold when your hungry and change colors a little, or if you experience sudden weight loss or gain. If you don’t have these, then you probably don’t have it, but it is really easy to test for it at a doctors office
it takes like 15 minutes

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I can give you a personal example of a very high protien (Adkins) diet where I actually had to stop taking my insulin because I was not eating enough carbs. I thought to myself that this is very odd, because I am a T1 and I have to take insulin to carry fuel to my cells for processing.

I would suggest a low carb (and right carb) diet. Do not follow Adkins, but something like South Beach where it teaches you the correct carbs for your body.

Good luck.