Levemir/Gestational Diabetes

[Ceres 26]

Has anyone else that has experienced gestational diabetes had to go on the insulin pens or some variation thereof? I'm curious because while I was fine for the first two and half trimesters, the gestational diabetes issue popped up a few weeks into the third trimester. I tried controlling my blood sugars with my diet and with Glyburide, but the numbers would not stay stay constant. At least one meal would be messed up and be too high. Plus, I couldn't eat any starchy carbs at all without my blood sugars skyrocketing, which made the doctors unhappy. Even though most of the starchy carbs like Pasta or rice get stuck anyhow, they insisted I should be able to a small potato without my body going into meltdown.

So my doctors started me on the insulin pens yesterday. I'm not thrilled to see the pens are a cat C medication and I'm not thrilled to see on the handout that it's not known if taking this stuff can harm the baby. I'm just wondering if anyone else has any experience with this?

[kh1983 1]

I'm currently 18 weeks and I take levimer and novo log. I'm diabetic before pregnant. I chose novo log to help control. Before preg I took metformin and glyburide however she took me off glyburide it is not good for baby. So far my blood sugar is doing great

[Ceres 26]

well it seems the pens did their job in any case. =) gave birth this week to a healthy 8 pound 6 ounce baby boy