Intentional gestational diabetic positive test??

[Blah]

Hi,
Recently I went to do the the official 3 hour fasting test. My results came back positive for GD. I think that the results are wrong because rather then taking the normal 1 hour test, with the regular amount of sugar in the awful drink, the Doctor had me drink one that was double the sugar. So that my tests would show as a positive. I have never taken in that much sugar on any given day during or in recent years. So of course my results are going to be abnormal. What I want to know is if this is legit. I think it is not, because I overall though this pregnancy have eaten well when I can. Lost weight because I cannot hold a full meals worth in the stomach, Granted I haven't had as much exercise as I should due to the nature of the job, working 40 + hours a week, and trying to get as close to a full nights sleep when I can. Worst part about all this is that I am already stressed out over everything, and having the dr. have me due this test then tell me it is positive....

 

[Spiker]

GD is an epidemic. Why? Probably because it's probably normal and probably fine to have elevated blood sugar during pregnancy.

Yes there is an unsafe level. Women with pre-existing diabetes have to be extremely careful. But GD? Over diagnosed and quite possibly just nonsense.

When my wife was pregnant they tried to put her on a GD protocol because of a single finger prick reading of 4.5 (one test, one result). Because she knew about diabetes from me, she told them to get stuffed.

 

[))Denise((]

How many weeks along are you? Are you overweight?

If you can get hold of a meter (inexpensive one is called Codefree and available from ebay and amazon) then you can do your own GTT with a 500ml bottle of regular lucozade. Fast overnight, in the morning, test your blood sugar, drink it in 5 minutes and sit down and do nothing and test your blood sugar every 30 minutes for the next two hours. If you get figures similar to the one at the GP then you may have GD.

Do you have appointments at the hospital? If you do then mention it to them what the doctor did. or speak to your midwife.

It is better to have GD recognised in pregnancy and not everyone has to go on insulin. If your baby gets too much sugar then it will grow too big and you will have problems delivering it and it may have problems after it is born.

I had borderline GD with two of my pregnancies (out of three) and I was monitored more closely and scanned more often. I don't know the levels I was at as it was 29 and 22 years ago. I wasn't on insulin. I did end up with two babies weighing over 9lb (the other was 7lb 12oz).

I can see that you are cross that you were given the wrong test, you should ask for it to be done again. It isn't the end of the world to have GD but if you do then it is probable that you could get Type 2 in the future (nobody told me this).