I was just reading Kim's post about costal chronditis and was surprised about how many people knew about this or had even experienced it. It made me think about diabetes. Of course everyone knows what that is, but I have been amazed lately at how widespread it is becoming. I do medical transcription for an ophthalmologist and lately it seems that a good bit of my typing has been taken over with people with diabetes and diabetic retinopathy. Of course people with known diabetes are apt to visit their ophthalmologist more diligently than other people, but it seems to me that it is increasing in the general public.

My daughter has developed gestational diabetes in this pregnancy (and also the last one) and I am wondering how many of you either have diabetes now or have had gestational diabetes when pregnant. Is this as widespread as it is seeming to me?