PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for November, 1999: Re: Effects of? Re: Blood Sugar

Re: Effects of? Re: Blood Sugar

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 20:10:59 -0600 (CST)

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At Wed, 24 Nov 1999, AnnMarie wrote: >
>Well, I did call and was blown off by the nurse. To her the only
>problem here is that I am not eating enough. Even though for some
>reason I actually feel the symptoms AFTER a good meal by an hour or
>maybe two?? And if I miss a snack as I first experienced yesterday?
>Emergency Coke and I drove home in my new car just fine. I snack
>frequently and my meals are actually consisting of food and not just a
>Coke to drink. Even with my first preg I would eat plenty and it would
>still happen sometimes. This time around I think it's more frequent.
>Not sure it ever really left comepletely after first daughter's birth.
>Have always gotten palp's/shakes from some super-carb candies. So much
>for that.
>
>Anyway...I know and I've seen too much to know what having uncontrolled
>diabetes leads to. What can happen with the opposite of having low
>blood sugar?

Intermittent low blood sugar should be a problem but constant loow blood sugar may reduce the babies energy supply. No studies on this however.

>And couldn't it affect the baby more in the first
>trimester?

More likely later on when the baby's requirements are greater.

>Oh, and while I'm at it, one more thing, please? Isn't it
>possible that the blood levels rise too high (like diabetes), then to
>compensate the body just releases too much insulin or releases it too
>fast?

Yup. that 's exactly why I wrote my original response about a nutritionist and preventing the problem "to set meal plans and exchanges to reduce the potential hypoglycemia".

>There have been a few people w/diabetes in my family and I think I
>read about a type like this. Or am I thinking too much?

I doesn't sound like you have diabetes as much as you have reactive hypoglycemia.

HSM

>
>AM
>
>At Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. wrote:
>>
>>At Mon, 22 Nov 1999, AnnMarie wrote:
>>>
>>>I've been getting the feeling lately that my blood sugar sometimes gets
>>>low an hour or two after I eat. I used to get low blood sugar levels in
>>>my last pregnancy, but I never reported it to the doctor. (No lectures,
>>>I promise to tell the new one at my first appointment. >>(SNIP)
>>>AM
>>
>>Yes, it necessitates a call earlier and possibly a nutritional consult
>>to set meal plans and exchanges to reduce the potential hypoglycemia you
>>get from time to time. Better to avoid the problem than "fix" it with
>>OJ.

--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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