Okay, I'm not lazy or unmotivated. I swear. I actually have not one but TWO more posts started that I just need to finish. But I've had this "thing" looming over my head for a while now. Something that no pregnant woman wants to deal with....
The 3-hour glucose test!!!
See, every pregnant woman must take the 1-hour. That's a given. You go and drink straight sugar. 50 grams of liquid sugar. Do you know how much 50 grams of sugar is????? I mean, I'm totally not opposed to junk food and candy bars; cookies and cola. But--- 50 GRAMS?!?!? Then you have to sit there for an hour and have your blood drawn. It has to be under this magical number to qualify as passed.
Well I was 6 points over the allowed number. So I got the call. The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad call. That I would now how to take the 3 hour test.
And what does that entail, you may be asking. Well, know how I mentioned that you have to drink liquid sugar--50 grams of liquid sugar? Yeah well this time it was sugar on hyper-crack!!! I had to drink 100 grams of sugar.
Yeah. 100 GRAMS!!! That's nuts!!
It's flavored like lemon-lime sugar, little bit better than the Orange Crush/fake Push-Pop type drink from before. And I did get a cold drink, which is supposed to help. But it's just so much. It's so hard to actually get a decent amount of the liquid Sugar-Crack even into your mouth. You have 10oz of drink to finish but it's so awful I could only get like 1/2 an ounce at a time. On top of that, you have a time limit to choke it down. So I had to force myself not to spit out any or I'd have to start all over.
Finished the SC in time and then went to my check up right after. Figured I'd knock out two birds with one stone since the lab I have to go to is one floor down from my doctor. Little man is doing great. Right on track. My blood pressure was a little high. Hmmmm Wonder why?? After the check up I went back downstairs and had to wait another 20 minutes for the first blood draw. By that point I'm feeling a little shaky and kinda sick.
Fell asleep for the next hour. Another vial of blood. Awesome made it through 2 of the 3 hours.
That's when things got rough. See, if you throw up during the test, then it's voided. You have to go eat a massive, SUGARY breakfast and then wait 2 hours. There's no way I would have made it another two hours. So even though I was getting horrible shakes. Even though I tried to sleep and would be jolted back up when my leg suddenly shot out. And even though I could feel the sugar bile creeping up my throat, I knew I had to keep it down. Finally the lab tech came in and took the last vial. I was done. But did I pass? Wouldn't know until a day or two.
Managed to make it home. Rested the rest of the day. Headaches, shakes, itching... That was my rest of the day. I swear, that test is enough to make someone never want to get pregnant again!!
Called my doctor's office this morning. They only had the fasting, 1 hour, and 2 hour results. No 3 hour. Called the lab; was told the results were all sent. Called the doctor again. They called the 3rd Party Reviewer. Finally got some answers.
I passed. Barely. But I'll take it!! No shots, skin pricks, or uber-strict diet for me!! Now just waiting for little man's appearance.
P.S.: Did I mention the 3-hour test was on a Monday? Yeah. Totally terrible way to start my week!!
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