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Would it be possible for someone to discover diabetes during pregnancy?

9 doctors weighed in across 3 answers

Yes: Diabetes can occur at any time. Pregnancy can bring out diabetes in someone who is at risk. Gestational diabetes is a condition in which sugars rise as a result of the pregnancy and typically requires treatment while pregnant, but many times resolves after pregnancy.

Answered 9/28/2016

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Dr. Quang Nguyen answered

Specializes in Endocrinology

Yes: Gestational diabetes can occur anytime during pregnancy. If you have symptoms/signs of diabetes, you should get tested again (just blood tests) even if you'd tested negative earlier on in pregnancy.

Answered 12/10/2013

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Gestational diabetes: can start in pregnancy and resolve after delivery - but for some women the diabetes doesn't resolve.

Answered 6/11/2015

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