So it came time time to take my glucose test at 28 weeks. Such a silly test to down so much sugar and get a blood draw hoping you don't throw up or pass out. In over 30 years they haven't improved the test and that is just absurd. I have been dreading this test from the beginning and I am TERRIFIED of getting gestational diabetes. So I downed the drink in under 5 minutes and an hour later went into the doctors office for the draw and found out the next day that I failed it, like I expected. I had been having strange reactions to eating sugary foods and I wondered if I was diabetic. I was devastated and this all was happening the week we were meeting with the club foot specialist. So I had to schedule the grueling 3 hr test.
The drink actually didn't taste too terribly bad and I didn't pass out!
For the 3 hour test, the drink is 3 times as concentrated and they take your fasting blood draw, then a draw at 1, 2, and 3 hours after drinking the drink in under 5 minutes. My arm was so sore from the draws (why couldn't they have just pricked my finger) and I had to wait in the waiting room with my mom the entire 4.5 hours. I am SO grateful she dropped everything to sit with me through this day. I was so anxious and worried and was just a mess. She helped distract me and brought games and fun magazines for us to read. We also did fun word searches and such. She truly is the best. They told me it would be a week before I found out the results but hours after we got home they called me to let me know I passed with flying colors! My numbers were waaaay under the limits. I had a feeling it would be that because after the 2 hour mark, I felt completely normal. So I just have a slight insulin sensitivity so I just have to eat healthy and my baby will be just one pound over what he would have been (which is what he is already showing).
We celebrated the good news by doing some gardening together and shopping at Target. It was too close for comfort for me and I am SO SO SO SO grateful I don't have gestational diabetes. It really opened my eyes to how the poor type 1's have to go through it for life.
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