Recently, I started shaking whenever I wake up. I was at a risk for Diabetes because my mother had gestational diabetes whenever she was pregnant with me, but I lost A LOT of excess weight (78 lbs), weight 128, and changed my diet. Is Diabetes possible?
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Littlemisswallflower
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Type II diabetes is a gene-based disorder. Although gestational diabetes can cause fetal distress and/or harm, it's not known to predispose the child to diabetes (although a percentage of the mothers DO go on to develop type II)). If your mother has Type II diabetes now it may or may not be related to the gestational diabetes. Some Type II diabetics experience a rise in blood sugar in the mornings due to a not-very-well understood mechanism known as "Dawn Effect" or "Somogyi Effect." Your description of the shakes though seems to point to hypoglycemia rather than hyperglecemia. Does this shakiness resolve upon eating something? If so, then that's hypoglycemia. In any case it can indicate an impaired carbohydtrate metabolism of some sort and COULD be a precursor to diabetes, but not diabetes itself. See your doc.
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