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I am currently pregnant and had a thrombosed hemorrhoid about 5 weeks ago. it was extremely painful for 3-4 days and finally started to feel better. The hemorrhoid itself shrunk significantly and while it was still there, it didn’t hurt or bother me. two days ago, I felt pressure in my anal region and it has slowly crept back into the neighborhood of pain where I believe it is becoming thrombosed a second time. ironically, I’m already on blood thinners so I thought that may help prevent thrombosis, but apparently not. obviously I am in lots of pain, my BP is high because of the pain, and sometimes it’s so bad I feel like I could pass out.

I use witch hazel on cotton pads as needed, but they hurt and burn after the first few minutes of relief. I use a peri bottle and baby wipes when going number two. I also use some dermoplast after going number two to reduce the pain or any other time I may need it. I will also camp out in the shower with a shower head of warm water against it to help. other than these things (and sitz baths) is there anything else I can do? When they’re thrombosed, it is so hard to think or focus about anything else.

my MFM wants me to check fasting glucose and then two hours after each meal. Theres no mention of after snacks. I will be seeing them, plus a diabetic counselor on Thursday, so I will ask them then. But I thought some of you may have ideas or opinions on why they don’t want us to test after snacks. What if we are eating high carb snacks or snacks that cause spikes and we don’t realize it because we aren’t testing?

I was recently diagnosed with gestational diabetes (non-diabetic beforehand) and am trying to figure out how this stuff works.

For GD, the goal is to test four times a day - fasting and then two hours after each meal. I got my hands on a dexcom because I thought it would be more beneficial to see how my glucose behaves overall, not just small snipets through the day.

So I have two questions:

(1) Does two hours mean from your first bite or your last bite? If I eat a meal, finish it, and then eat dessert 30 minutes later, does this change the two hour window?

(2) So far I have had no issues with my glucose being high at all. It is usually always under 120, and at most 140 right after eating (like within 30 minutes of eating). But today I had an awful meal because we needed to eat and I wanted to test my glucose behavior with lots of carbs and sugar, so I had a McDonald’s filet-o-fish combo with Coke Zero, a hot fudge sundae and 1/2 ferrero roche. Two hours after eating, Dexcom read 123, 3 points over goal. Three hours after eating, it was 138, four hours after eating, it is now 150. I thought glucose spikes at 2-hours, or does it moreso depend on what you eat (lots of carbs and sugar make later spikes?)

I don’t know how this stuff works and I don’t normally eat like this, so I don’t think it will happen all the time. For example, last night we ate at a nice restaurant and I ate everything the chef provided, plus their pastry based fruit dessert with vanilla compote, then 30 minutes later a venti Frappuccino compliments of my husband, and my blood sugar was 116 two hours later and continued to decline after that.

I’m just surprised my glucose was okay at 2 hours today but is continuing to climb 4 hours later!