AW - I DON'T HAVE GD!!!
Feb 24, 2015 10:10:32 GMT -5
Post by schnurette on Feb 24, 2015 10:10:32 GMT -5
For those who may not have seen my complaining wherever I posted it, at my last doctors appointment (21 weeks) I had glucose3+ in my urine and my doc nearly pooped his pants because I was up 6lbs. He immediately gave me a requisition to get the GD test done as well as an extra random glucose test before even starting the GD test.
I immediately started being more careful about what I was eating (honestly, the day of my appointment I was in an exceptionally "fuck it" kind of mood and ate pizza and oreos for lunch sooooo...yeah...) and was weighing myself every morning.
My weight I am absolutely not concerned with. I am up 12lbs total based on my morning weigh-ins. Some days it fluctuates up and some days down but it is pretty steady. I've been watching it carefully anyway because I don't want to have a million pounds to lose this time like I did with DD.
I went for my GD testing and have been stressing about it ever since because 3+ is a lot in the urine so I was convinced that I definitely had GD.
At my appointment yesterday he said my "random" blood test (the blood test I did before drinking the glucola) was as average as can be. My urine at the GD test "had some junk in it but no glucose" and my actual GD test came back 7.6 (7.8 is the limit) so it's all good! Oh and the average of my glucose over all of my bloodwork thus far was even more wonderfully average.
He asked if I was just doing it through diet and I laughed and said no more oreos. And then we laughed and laughed and I really wanted an oreo.
Anyway, AW - I don't have that diabeetus!
I immediately started being more careful about what I was eating (honestly, the day of my appointment I was in an exceptionally "fuck it" kind of mood and ate pizza and oreos for lunch sooooo...yeah...) and was weighing myself every morning.
My weight I am absolutely not concerned with. I am up 12lbs total based on my morning weigh-ins. Some days it fluctuates up and some days down but it is pretty steady. I've been watching it carefully anyway because I don't want to have a million pounds to lose this time like I did with DD.
I went for my GD testing and have been stressing about it ever since because 3+ is a lot in the urine so I was convinced that I definitely had GD.
At my appointment yesterday he said my "random" blood test (the blood test I did before drinking the glucola) was as average as can be. My urine at the GD test "had some junk in it but no glucose" and my actual GD test came back 7.6 (7.8 is the limit) so it's all good! Oh and the average of my glucose over all of my bloodwork thus far was even more wonderfully average.
He asked if I was just doing it through diet and I laughed and said no more oreos. And then we laughed and laughed and I really wanted an oreo.
Anyway, AW - I don't have that diabeetus!
Glad it was a fluke. Pizza actually may have been the culprit, or at least in addition to the cookies. My GD nutritionist said there is something about pizza that can cause high glucose levels for a longer time. I think it was the combination of being lots of carbs and higher fat; the combo doesn't process as quickly. So as one with GD, I can't eat pizza. I could do like half a slice with a huge serving of pure protein to try to balance it, but that's the max. Every single time I've tried counting the carbs in pizza and eat a conservative serving, I've way blown my numbers. It is one of those few foods always guaranteed to raise my numbers too high and not go down enough by the time I have to test. 
