Re: 1HR HIGH: Now they want a 3HR!!!

[Guest guest]

Screw the nurses. I would go straight to the doc and tell them you ARE NOT

taking the 3 hour. They can not do anything but mark it in your file that you

refused. You think they would want to make this as easy as possible for you

the pregnant one. I am kinda lucky. There are 5 docs that I have to see during

the prgnancy, and the first one made me aliitle mad, but it only got better

from there. She said that I would have to take the test, but the next month I

talked to a different doc and they marked in my file that we would just do

some fasting blood test. I think they do that at 28 and I am only 20 weeks.

Good luck, and hold your ground.

Meridth

Wife to Larry (02/22/02)

Mother to Forrest (01/21/01)

Expecting #2 02/14/05

Gastric ByPass 02/23/04

370/268pg/175 goalweight

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/28/2004 11:50:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

teresacroughen@... writes:

What did others do in this situation? Am I wrong about taking the

one-hour and expecting it to be high? Or does that REALLY mean that

I've got Gestational Diabetes? I haven't had any problems with sugar

during this pregnancy...until this test was taken!

Thanks

in Detroit

csection 11/24/04

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I did the 2 hour post prandial test at 25 weeks.. came out fine.

Since then .. my amniotic fluid has increased to 26 cm and had to do the 2

hour post prandial again yesterday.... go me.. grrr..

YOU have patient rights... and from my reading... the way our bodies process

the sugar.. even teh 1 hour tests could not be accurate.. let alone make you

very ill!

I have been able to eat some sugar and candy up until lately.... it makes me

sick again... ( good for me )

I will be 33 weeks on Thursday!! 5 more weeks until Jonah comes!!!

K in Ft Lauderdale

mommy to:

Noah 10/14/02 - 31 weeker - 3lbs 11 oz - 16.5 inches long

Jonah EDD/C Section date approx November 4, 2004

Gastric Bypass Sugery 12/2/03

http://www.members.aol.com/marykalwite

[Guest guest]

Was this a fasting or GTT? If fasting you might have Gestational diabetes and

should go for the three hour. Better safe than sorry.

Ferguson Rasley

mailto:dferguson@...

1HR HIGH: Now they want a 3HR!!!

Man...I tried explaining that the one-hour gluclose screening wasn't

going to be a breeze but the doc's 'girls' didn't believe me.

I didn't get too sick, just a little queezy, but nonetheless...it

came back extremely high. (I'm usually hypoglycemic so I knew it was

going to be blown off the charts)

Anyhow, argued with the nurses today over the phone...tried telling

them there was no way in hell that I was going to take the 3hr test

and that there were other options and they won't listen to me.

What did others do in this situation? Am I wrong about taking the

one-hour and expecting it to be high? Or does that REALLY mean that

I've got Gestational Diabetes? I haven't had any problems with sugar

during this pregnancy...until this test was taken!

Thanks

in Detroit

csection 11/24/04

Children are a blessing, and a gift from the Lord. -Psalm 127:3

[Guest guest]

I had gestational diabetes with 2 of my 3 children, that was before

my gastric bypass. I had the one hour that you spoke of and I

tolerated pretty well, like you said a little queasy. Anyway, it

came back a bit high at 144 so they said I had to do the 3 hour. I

really didnt think much of it because the 1 hour was not too bad.

Well, I thought I might DIE in the first hour or so after drinking

it, I felt SO sick. The next hour was not too bad, but I still felt

pretty bad. In the next hour I started feeling VERY shaky, sweaty,

weak. Turns out that the first number was 210. The second number

was like 68 and the last was 56! The sugar hit my system so fast it

caused and unusually high amount of insulin in response and wiped out

my glucose levels. I could have passed out it turns out. I did the

2 hour post prandial(after eating) and everything was fine, my sugars

are in the 70's.

Push for that test.

Good luck,

Gerri

> Man...I tried explaining that the one-hour gluclose screening

wasn't

> going to be a breeze but the doc's 'girls' didn't believe me.

> I didn't get too sick, just a little queezy, but nonetheless...it

> came back extremely high. (I'm usually hypoglycemic so I knew it

was

> going to be blown off the charts)

> Anyhow, argued with the nurses today over the phone...tried telling

> them there was no way in hell that I was going to take the 3hr test

> and that there were other options and they won't listen to me.

>

> What did others do in this situation? Am I wrong about taking the

> one-hour and expecting it to be high? Or does that REALLY mean that

> I've got Gestational Diabetes? I haven't had any problems with

sugar

> during this pregnancy...until this test was taken!

>

> Thanks

> in Detroit

> csection 11/24/04