They would be exceptionally bad practitioners if they treated you that way. Your feelings about needles has nothing to do with your ability to be a mother, anyway.
It is perfectly rational to view injections as a last resort; and that’s all you have to say. As it is, I would think that it would be a dead last resort from the POV of all concerned.
Metformin is a pill. It’s what I and many others use to control diabetes.
Got the result, it was normal. YAY!
If any of you saw a very tired and somewhat crazy looking pregnant woman on a Pittsburgh city bus today, muttering “85%”, over and over, now you know why.
YAY! Yes, numbers help! 
Congratulations!!! I’m so happy for you, and for the baby too!!
Yea!!!
Have a happy baby and be a happy mama.
Congrats on the good results and the relief you’re feeling.
A suggestion if I may …
You’re going to have another hundred “exciting” things happen during the pregnancy and thousands more along the way during the kid’s normal growing up process.
I suggest you really need some training in anxiety management. The “correct” reaction to the one hour test should have been: “Damn, I’m too busy for this. I wonder what this means - I’ll ask somebody at the clinic and go consult Dr. Wiki. Hmmm, what’s for lunch?”
If you’re getting more excited than that, you’re hurting yourself. I know pregnancy causes a lot of weird hormonal upset in a lot of people. Which is all the more reason to work on learning how to keep the thinking conscious part of the mind in charge and keep the lizard brain deep inside each of us on a short leash where it belongs.
I am being treated for anxiety.
Gestational diabetes particularly freaks me out, though, because I have a needle phobia. I manage to take my daughter to the doctor to get shots (though I usually delegate this task to Mr. Neville, in hopes that she won’t pick up on my anxiety). I manage to get blood drawn (four times the other day). What I don’t think I could manage is giving myself an injection. My normal coping strategy of looking away when the needle is visible, which gets me through the blood draws and shots, wouldn’t work for that (at least I don’t think it would). I don’t like getting shots or getting blood drawn, at all, but I manage to do it when I have to.
I also know that I do poorly, mood-wise, on a low-carb diet. I manage this by not going on low-carb diets.
I had heard that the first-line treatment for gestational diabetes is a low-carb diet, and after that they go to insulin (I’m not actually sure this is true any more, thanks to some of the info here). I don’t see either of those options working at all well for me. Non-gestational type 2 diabetes doesn’t freak me out as badly- I know some people who have prediabetes or diabetes, and they take oral medications. That, I think I could handle. Giving myself shots, no.
Take from a type 1 diabetic that needles scared the crap out of before he found out he had it, you learn to cope really, really quickly. It may not seem like it now, but you do. I will never forget sitting in hospital holding a syringe knowing I had to do this or die…
These days I can happily watch anything being pushed into me. Drips, medications, blood being taken…
Good to hear about treatment. The better you can cope the happier you’ll b.
My comment was aimed at the “I had heard … so I jumped to the *worst * conceivable conclusion & fixated on that” part of your thinking.
Lots of people are at least a little prone to that kind of thinking. Some are debilitated by it. I hope you can improve in every way as you work through this.
I’m a big believer in CBT for these sort of things. And you’ve just been handed a very shiny example of “My habit made me think X, reality was Y, and I’m much relieved now that I know it’s really Y. Believing X for even a moment was completely unnecessary and completely unhelpful” Next time you’re feeling yourself catastrophize, stop and replay this tape instead of your traditional one.