So I'm 27 weeks pregnant now and craving two things still: fruit and chocolate. Both of which are high in sugar. I had my basic one hour glucose tolerance test at my doctor's office two weeks ago, and I was informed that my results were "slightly elevated". So Monday I went to a local hospital lab to do the dreaded three hour glucose tolerance test. It went a little like this: no eating after midnight (check), show up at 8:00 with an empty stomach (check), have blood drawn right away (ouch, but check), drink a bottle of super-sweet orange flavored drink (gross, but check), then wait until 11:00 having blood drawn every hour on the hour (double ouch, but check). By the end of the ordeal I had sore arms from being poked four times, but more than anything I was HUNGRY! Don't they know that depriving a pregnant lady of food is like depriving a mama bear of her cubs! Ok, it's not that bad, but my stomach was sure rumbling loudly in protest. Thankfully my mom and I went out to lunch afterwards and I filled it back up quickly.
I came prepared with things to do while I waited for three hours: my book, paper for grocery list making, and my Bible study to work on.
I finished up my lesson pretty quick. Then I moved on to the other things in my bag 'o goodies.
Me around 9:30. I'm giving the thumbs up sign (though my thumb got cut off in the picture) showing that I'm hanging in there. It really wasn't as bad as I remembered it to be.I won't know the results of this last test for another week or so, but hopefully my sugar is under control. Maybe I should cut back on the amount of chocolate chip cookies I'm eating in a week???
4 comments:
I CAN'T stand that orange stuff. Just thinking about it makes me cringe. Hope everything comes back ok. I had to do the 3 hour a few times because of all the high fluid I had. The whole fasting and then waiting 3 hours is a huge mental thing too, isn't it? Oh what I wouldn't give for 3 hours of silence today!!
Oh no. Don't scare me! I don't think I could cut back on the pregnancy sugar addiction I have formed. Hope your results are good!
Update: Results from my test are normal! I can continue eating all my favorite sweets, so there is peace in the land again.
I'm glad your results were normal. It's no fun to be on a diet when you're pregnant. I agree with Mocha Mama that a three-hour break would be so nice (minus the starving you and poking you). They really need to have a quiet room with a bed and a soft pillow so you can take a nap. :-)
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