I had my follow-up endocrinologist appointment this morning. I have been really nervous for this appointment as the doctor was going to take a look at all my glucose counts from my blood tests (four per day) and determine if I would also need insulin shots on top of the diabetes diet that I have been following. Greg came with me, just in case, since he had offered to help me with the shots if it came to that. But I am extremely happy to report that she thought my overall counts were good enough to where I can continue to control the diabetes with the diet alone. Even though a couple readings were higher than the target range (which is part of the reason I was worried), she told me that it is the overall range that she is looking for and that I was doing fine. So happy!!<\/p>\n
She did warn me that the pregnancy hormones will be continuing to possibly make the diabetes harder to control until 35-37 weeks (I am currently at 30 weeks), so there may come a time in the next few weeks where I might need insulin if the diet alone can no longer control the diabetes. I have to send her my glucose readings every week and will return for a follow-up appointment in 2 weeks. I was also told to not worry about an occasional high number or slip-up, especially with the holidays coming up. I am so glad to know that I can at least have a sliver of pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had my follow-up endocrinologist appointment this morning. I have been really nervous for this appointment as the doctor was going to take a look at all my glucose counts from my blood tests (four per day) and determine if I would also need insulin shots on top of the diabetes diet that I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bree","category-our-life","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}