s/o glucose test - question

[wambam]

Any nurse/health care professional types want to weigh in on this?


Why don't doctors use the "track your blood sugar over the course of a few days/weeks" method for the GD test? It seems really weird to me that instead of observing a blood sugar trend when eating your normal food, they force a serious dose of sugar down your throat and see how your body responds. In my inexperience opinion, it doesn't seem like it's testing how your body handles the sugar in your diet, it's testing how it handles a particularly extreme situation. Am I wrong? Is this too technical a topic for before noon?

[speckledfrog]

It puts less responsibility on the patient to only have to come in once. A lot of people are non-compliant when it comes to their own medical care and I bet they catch more this way.

[MWOS]

non-compliance and lying

[wambam]

Oct 31, 2013 8:54:35 GMT -5 speckledfrog said:

It puts less responsibility on the patient to only have to come in once. A lot of people are non-compliant when it comes to their own medical care and I bet they catch more this way.

That's probably true. 

Do you think doctor would be amenable to doing an at home monitoring if a woman specifically requested it?

[speckledfrog]

I have no idea. It's faster and cheaper to just do the glucose test.

[jssymom14]

I always laughed when people on my bmb would "eat healthy" in the days leading up to the initial test. Can you imagine if people got to do at home monitoring? Some would lie, eat extremely healthy compared to other days to make sure they don' t get diagnosed with GD. In retrospect, GD helped keep my weight gain at a better level and allowed me to have a much smaller baby than I probably should given the size of mine and DH's families.