Glucose Tolerance Test.

I had a glucose tolerance test the other day. Its probably like my 9th one. at least. My first one i was like 6 years old.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/justashley1637/sets/72157626814179903/

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That album pretty much shows you what the test includes..  (read the captions on the pictures. it explains alot more. ) Its pretty simple.. Its not bad. i dnot mind the test. i hate the stupid drink but i get over it. the only painful part is getting the iv removed, and its tolerable.

I had my kit on me, ive never actually known what my bloodsugars were during it, so i took my blood sugar a few times while just laying in the hospital bed.. an hour after i drank the nasty syrup stuff, it was like 378 i think.. I had already passed feeling nausious and sick and sweats and stuff.. i just felt completely delerious. I can feel the fluctuations in my blood sugar.. i feel shitty even if its higher than 170. or lower than 70 or so. its annoying.

But yeah.. just to give people the idea of what it is.. bEcause its a pretty common test, to test for diabetes, insulin resistance, and just to see where your levels are and such.

timeline:

6:00am - wake up & start to get ready.
6:40am - leave house.
7:00am - go to admissions, then the lab for 'finger prick'.
7:30am - go up to the unit where the test is, go to the desk and get admitted and get a bracelet.
7:40am - take you back to the room.
7:50am - take vitals. Blood pressure, temperature, pulse, etc...
8:00am - start the IV, and take first bit of blood.
8:20am - drink the glucose drink.
8:50am - first blood drawing, after the drink.
9:20am - second blood drawing.
10:20am - third blood drawing.
11:20am - fourth blood drawing.
11:30am - order food and eat.
11:50am - Remove IV
12:00pm - get discharged, and go home.

^^^^^ Thats for a 3 hour. if your having a 5 our 7 hour, add 2 more or 4 more hours and blood drawings. that was pretty much my day, and i got home by 12:30pm.

So yeah. thats about it. not much to it. (:

Hope this helps if you were getting anxious about the test or just curiuos to what it includes. so yeah. thats it. (:

<3 Ashley.