Yesterday was my 26 week appointment with the ob. Part of the visit included my glucose test for gestional diabetes. For this test, you have to go in with an empty stomach and drink this 50% sugar drink and they test your blood an hour later. They draw 3 tubes of blood and send it out to the lab and they said they would call me with the results. After my test, I met with the doctor and she said everything looks great!
The nurse called me this morning and said that I did not pass. Evidentally your sugar level should be 140 on this test and I was slightly above at 146. :( Therefore, I have to go back in 2 weeks and take a 3 hour test. This time I will have to go in after fasting for 12 hours and they will test my blood. Then I have to drink a 100% sugar drink and they will test my blood every hour for 3 hours. What makes it worse is that you have to sit in the doctor's office for the whole 3 hours! I'm hoping that because I was on slightly above the limit that this test will reveal that I don't in fact have diabetes.
Needless to say, I am less than thrilled. Please pray that the next round goes well and I will in fact not have diabetes. I really don't need another stress factor right now with everything we have going on right now.
On more fun note, my family is coming over tonight for the Wake Forest 4th of July festivities! Fun pictures to come!
4 comments:
This is what happened to me after my test. I went back and drank the nasty stuff after starving all night. By the end of my three hour test I thought I would pass out or fall over with hunger. Put something to snack on in your bag so you can eat after you get done and then plan on eating a nice BIG lunch somewhere. By the way I passed with flying colors as you will also do.
I failed the first one this time around, too. Hopefully the second one will be good for you, too! I didn't eat sugar at all for a couple of days before the three hour one (not that it would have helped). Just get some good magazines and try to make the three hours pass fast! Luckily, there were three other girls doing the three hour test with me so I talked to them most of the time :)
This is one thing I am a bit afraid of as well. I have a few more weeks to go before my first test but I am definately not looking forward to it. I have high hopes that you will do fine with the next one because you were so close this time. Good luck!
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