Ok, I'm thinking about cheating, what do you think?

[Love2learn]

I posted the other day how I am hypoglycemic and failed the one hour glucose test. I have a blood sugar monitor so I can test at home after meals, etc.
I don't want to do the 3 hour because I know I will pass out. I've done the 2 hour in the past and almost passed out. And it throws my body out of whack for an entire week!
So my dr gave me 2 choices:
1. Do the 3 hour test
2. Take the GD diagnosis, do the diet and test on my own.

I really wanted to do #2 but my dr will most likely do lots of ultrasounds at the end due to being "high risk". (heard plenty of stories) And the ultrasounds are not always accurate. So it could appear the baby is big even though it's not and I would end up having a c section. I really want a natural birth because I had a tramatic birth with #1. I think it would be healing.

So I am thinking about cheating on the 3 hour. I plan to do lots of walking if they let me leave during the test. And no flames please..............but I'm considering eating something with the drink or not drinking it and eating something else. I don't want it to look like I didn't drink it though so I don't know what I would eat in place of it. (Any suggestions?)
I can test at home and do a healthy diet on my own to make sure I don't have diabetes.(this is all they would have me do with a diagnosis anyway) I just don't want a high risk diagnosis!
Any suggestions on how to pass this test?

[47chromosomes]

How attached are you to your doctor? I would sit down and tell your doctor you feelings about this, and your worry of passing out. Could your regular physician talk to your OB about your hypoglycemia condition? Otherwise, maybe it would be good to find a doc who would understand your condition and let you do the GD diet and glucose testing without slapping the arbitrary diagnosis on you. I would really try to avoid having the diagnosis put on your record if you know for a fact that you do not actually have GD. Not just for purposes of avoiding unnessesary intervention, but more diagnoses in your medical record makes you a less desirable client for insurance companies in the future, and may make you appear to be a high risk client in future pregnancies. In the end, you may have to do the 3 hour test and prove your point. In my opinion, it would be better than having the GD diagnosis. If it were me, I wouldn't cheat, but you are not me.:)
--K

[anthasam]

Perhaps you can suggest a #3?

3) Do the diet, test on your own, take a fasting blood sugar blood test then a two hour post-prandial blood test.

With the two hour post-prandial, you get to go home and eat what you want! Then come back and get the blood drawn again at the 2 hour mark.

This was the compromise my midwife and I agreed to for my care. It works - you can eat food you know will keep your blood sugar stable.

[Outofmymindyo]

My friend just went through this EXACT thing. Finally her doctors decided it was stupid to make her sit through the 3 hour test, and I had told her that no matter what they said she needed to refuse it. It's stupid to make a hypoglycemic person sit through a 3 hour test after fasting for 12 hours. Are doctors trying to kill you?

She passed out during the 1 hour test, so I was really kinda pissed that the doctors had her do it as she's ALREADY high risk with this pregnancy as it is.

IMHO, I say you should refuse it.

[newbymom05]

I wouldn't cheat. If you feel strongly about it, refuse the test. No matter what you decide, you can also refuse u/s.

[eastmillcreekmama]

After "failing' the 1 hr test, I was refered for the 3 hour test. It was a bit of a hardship for me since I live 2 hours from the hospital. I asked if there was an alternative. THey requested that I test my blood sugar at home four times a day (prebreakfast, prelunch, predinner, prebed). I was supposed to report if I had any high readings. WEll, I actually had REALLY LOW readings, especially at the prebreakfast readings, and they all thought the machine was malfunctioning, until we went over it all with the lab techs, and I was using it correctly...I just quit testing after 2 weeks of normal or low readings, and ate a bedtime and maybe middle of the night AND first thing snack.

Personally, I think that the High Fructose Corn Syrup in the jelly beans (this is what the office had me eat for the one hoour test) artificially spiked my blood sugar. I NEVER eat this sweetener, and normally eat a balanced healthy diet. Overall, I decided I didn't have a problem, and refused the 3 hour test after all the normal blood sugar readings, and no one forced it after that. You doctors can't FORCE you to do anything. Everything you do is informed consent, and I agree with pp, that if you have hypoglycemia, you shouldn't ahve to fast 12 hours, plus 3 more after drinking stuff that will guarantee a blood sugar crash!

[maybebaby]

eh, personally, I'd cheat. :o Because flat out refusing is going to get you the GD label *anyway*. Not doing it is best, but if it's going to get you a GD diagnosis by refusing it....I dunno. I refused it during my last pg and the backup OB and MW labeled me..I didn't care as I knew I was doing a homebirth with another mw anyway, but it made things difficult.

I'd take some cheese. Drink the drink, but then have a bit of cheese afterwards. I'd normally say just walk, walk, walk in between draws, but if you know you might pass out, a bit of protein might help you.

Again, I wouldn't normally tell you cheating is the way to go lol but in this case, it sounds like you're stuck between a diagnosis and the test, so tweaking the test is not a horrible thing imo. As long as you know your true numbers (fasting and post prandial) are good, that's all that really matters. The GTT is just flawed no matter how you look at it.

[True Blue]

I probably wouldn't fast...eat a high protein breakfast (have some eggs and such) to help maintain your blood sugar, it should keep you from bottoming out. I wouldn't want the high risk diagnosis...if you ever get pg again, don't transfer your records to your new Dr and just don't take the test at all, IMO.

[RachelGS]

Change providers and monitor your own blood sugar.

[Ruthla]

I would refuse the test and look for another provider. If the dr isn't going to work with me in a respectful manner, and acutally look out for my health, then I'd find somebody else.

With my last pg, I also flunked the 1 hr test and then I flunked the 3 hour test. I only fasted about 6 hours, not 12, before the 3 hr test, and I didn't tell that to the lab tech.

I'm firmly convinced that my blood sugar was only too high twice during that pg: when I took each of those tests. I could tell from a single sip of the beverage that it wasn't good for me- had I not felt compelled to complete the test, I would have stopped after one sip. So my "GD" was completely controlled by diet, just by me listening to my body. IMO, it would be far more accurate to simply test women after their normal meals, and skip this glucose garbage.

[Kabes]

Change providers and monitor your own blood sugar.

DITTO! It doesn't sound like your Dr. is listening to you very well. If you feel that way too trust me it will get worst not better. Leave now and find a practitioner that will listen to you.
Pregnancy is a natural thing and does not need to be medically managed!!! Trust yourself and your baby! DON'T take that test or agree to anything else you don't feel is right or neccessary.

:thumb You can do it!!!

[momasana]

Change providers and monitor your own blood sugar.:yeah:

[alegna]

Dump the dr. and find a better care provider.

-Angela