3 hour gestational diabetest test, take 3

[mellybrelly]

I lasted maybe 20 minutes tops, and then I managed to throw it up all over myself, all over the table I was sitting on in a back room, all over the floor and I mean ALL OVER. I really let loose.

That was fun.

Then I started sobbing over the sink as I continued. Again, fun.

I moved into a new, clean room and the midwife told me that she was recommending that I just say I have gestational diabetes, go see the counselor at the hospital, see a nutritionist, do my 4 times a day finger pricks for the next 5 weeks and call it a day. I was concerned that would put me into high risk category and I'd be removed from the practice, but she said no, only if my blood sugars were not controllable.

Fine. I'm not doing that damn test again, that's for damn sure. Someone in a birth community here said they needed to redo it at 35 weeks but their OB said to leave it and just eat sensibly for the rest of the time. I kind of wish I had that OB. I'm so close to the end, with a baby that is growing perfectly, but fine, I'll do it. Tim says he'll follow the diet with me.

That's that!


I think we were home sometime around 10 am, I quickly washed off, went to bed and slept till 1:45 pm. It's a stressful test.

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[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

Well, in their defense, I was the one who insisted because I hated HATED the idea of being called GD without redoing the test, since I was certain I could pass it, this time, since I knew how to do the test properly.

I had a feeling it wasn't going to be great when I dry heaved brushing my teeth, and then dry heaved again later before I left the house and then felt like I was going to dry heave in the car. I was dryheaving the first time I took the test too, but the second time I wasn't and I was able to keep it down.