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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2192961" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Sorry [USER=518070]@SarahTee[/USER] - only just seen your post and Jaylee’s tag.</p><p></p><p>my understanding is that a 5 hour Oral Glucose Tolerance Test is used, and may include a 72 hour fasting test afterwards.</p><p></p><p>A 2 hour OGT is often used to diagnose diabetes, but it is to short for RH to show up in many RHers.</p><p></p><p>However, there should be a number of other tests done as well, to eliminate numerous other conditions. RH seems to often be a diagnosis of ‘last resort’ when several other conditions have been tested for, and found not to be there. These include other metabolic conditions, drug reactions, and insulinomas.</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps.</p><p></p><p>I would add that I have been through none of these tests, even though I have regularly had nasty hyposafter 2 hr GTTs. However, because the hypos always happened after I had left the doc’s after the 2 hr ended, these were never tested and recorded.</p><p></p><p>Back in the late 80s when I realised I had RH my doc had never heard of it and assumed it was ‘all in the mind’. So I researched it myself, discovered what eating patterns helped, and have been self-managing (with varying degrees of success) ever since. </p><p></p><p>This places me in the unfortunate position that my medical records say something like ‘silly melodramatic hypochondriac’ back for my teenage years <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />. But it also means that I am extraordinarily fortunate in having an understanding of the limitations of the NHS diagnostic process <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> and a healthy sense of responsibility for my own health. I have also (thankfully) learned to manage this condition very well, by myself, and have never followed the common doc advice to eat carbs every 3 hours. I consider myself extremely lucky to have escaped that!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2192961, member: 41816"] Sorry [USER=518070]@SarahTee[/USER] - only just seen your post and Jaylee’s tag. my understanding is that a 5 hour Oral Glucose Tolerance Test is used, and may include a 72 hour fasting test afterwards. A 2 hour OGT is often used to diagnose diabetes, but it is to short for RH to show up in many RHers. However, there should be a number of other tests done as well, to eliminate numerous other conditions. RH seems to often be a diagnosis of ‘last resort’ when several other conditions have been tested for, and found not to be there. These include other metabolic conditions, drug reactions, and insulinomas. Hope that helps. I would add that I have been through none of these tests, even though I have regularly had nasty hyposafter 2 hr GTTs. However, because the hypos always happened after I had left the doc’s after the 2 hr ended, these were never tested and recorded. Back in the late 80s when I realised I had RH my doc had never heard of it and assumed it was ‘all in the mind’. So I researched it myself, discovered what eating patterns helped, and have been self-managing (with varying degrees of success) ever since. This places me in the unfortunate position that my medical records say something like ‘silly melodramatic hypochondriac’ back for my teenage years ;). But it also means that I am extraordinarily fortunate in having an understanding of the limitations of the NHS diagnostic process ;) and a healthy sense of responsibility for my own health. I have also (thankfully) learned to manage this condition very well, by myself, and have never followed the common doc advice to eat carbs every 3 hours. I consider myself extremely lucky to have escaped that! [/QUOTE]
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