Glucose Test! - Page 2

[jesusfollower]

Forgot we had this thread and already post this elsewhere, but I passed! Yay!

[blastomom]

Warning, I'm gonna get all preachy here, lol!  Pregnancy #1 I failed the 1 hour and passed the 3 hour.  Pregnancy #2 I passed the 1 hour.  With this pregnancy I had to see an OB while I was on an extended trip and when she heard about my big babies (8 14 and 9 1) and modest weight gain (just over 20lbs both times) and the fact that I had failed my first 1hr she suggested that I might actually have had GD, even though I "passed" the test.  I decided to go on a GD diet anyway, this was back in July, and it really has made a huge difference.  Plus, sure enough, I massively failed my 1hour (over 180!!!) so I opted to skip the 3hr and just started monitoring and being even stricter with the GD diet.  Healthwise it has done wonders for me.  I'm eating a ton of healthy food, keeping not only my weight down but the baby's as well--this is the first time in 3 pregnancies that baby is measuring on date, not at least 2-3 weeks too large.  After asking around (my sis is a maternal fetal and my husband works with mainstream docs) I found out that the medical community believes that GD is widely under diagnosed--most docs quoted by at least 25% or so, but that the infrastructure is not set up to handle that sort of increase in load.  YIKES!  So...it's really up to us to eat better and educate ourselves, especially if we are "boarderline" on our tests. 

Okay, off my soapbox now ;-)

[mamadonna]

I've had gd with all three of my pregnancies, and so, for this one, I just automatically put myself on the diet early on.  To get the insurance referral, though, they told me I had to take the test (they wouldn't accept a detailed log of elevated numbers), but I PASSED the 1-hr.!--even though my numbers on my log were clearly above range even while following the diet.  Luckily I threw a big enough fit at that point that they gave me a referral without the 3-hr., and I was able to get on medication to control my fasting numbers (which I cannot control with diet alone), but clearly I'm a case of someone who has gd but wouldn't have been diagnosed if I hadn't forced the issue myself.

And I have to say...the diet is currently protecting me against the abundance of unhealthy Halloween treats that are still lurking all over my house!
 

Originally Posted by blastomom 

Warning, I'm gonna get all preachy here, lol!  Pregnancy #1 I failed the 1 hour and passed the 3 hour.  Pregnancy #2 I passed the 1 hour.  With this pregnancy I had to see an OB while I was on an extended trip and when she heard about my big babies (8 14 and 9 1) and modest weight gain (just over 20lbs both times) and the fact that I had failed my first 1hr she suggested that I might actually have had GD, even though I "passed" the test.  I decided to go on a GD diet anyway, this was back in July, and it really has made a huge difference.  Plus, sure enough, I massively failed my 1hour (over 180!!!) so I opted to skip the 3hr and just started monitoring and being even stricter with the GD diet.  Healthwise it has done wonders for me.  I'm eating a ton of healthy food, keeping not only my weight down but the baby's as well--this is the first time in 3 pregnancies that baby is measuring on date, not at least 2-3 weeks too large.  After asking around (my sis is a maternal fetal and my husband works with mainstream docs) I found out that the medical community believes that GD is widely under diagnosed--most docs quoted by at least 25% or so, but that the infrastructure is not set up to handle that sort of increase in load.  YIKES!  So...it's really up to us to eat better and educate ourselves, especially if we are "boarderline" on our tests. 

Okay, off my soapbox now ;-)

[blastomom]

Originally Posted by mamadonna 

I've had gd with all three of my pregnancies, and so, for this one, I just automatically put myself on the diet early on.  To get the insurance referral, though, they told me I had to take the test (they wouldn't accept a detailed log of elevated numbers), but I PASSED the 1-hr.!--even though my numbers on my log were clearly above range even while following the diet.  Luckily I threw a big enough fit at that point that they gave me a referral without the 3-hr., and I was able to get on medication to control my fasting numbers (which I cannot control with diet alone), but clearly I'm a case of someone who has gd but wouldn't have been diagnosed if I hadn't forced the issue myself.

And I have to say...the diet is currently protecting me against the abundance of unhealthy Halloween treats that are still lurking all over my house!

Same here!  It's been a lot easier to deal with all the goodies this time around because I've been on this "diet" for 4 months now.  As far as insurance, I declined the 3hr because I ended up in the ER in early September with what may have been a low BP/low glucose drop while I was on a long-haul flight home from Hawaii.  It left me with a temporary (we hope) blind spot in one eye and a bunch of docs and specialists in a mini panic.  My OB had no problem justifying to the insurance companies that she wanted to avoid the possibility that a 12hr fast followed by a massive glucose shock to my system lest it set me off again, lol.