God, I’m not diabetic am I?

Urgh, I feel awful.  I had this glucose tolerance test today and I don’t feel so good.  They get you to eat a stupid amount of carbs for three days, come in without breakfast and drink about 75mL of pure glucose in a fizzy lemonade.  I was feeling nauseous a third of the way into the lemonade.  Then you have to wait around for two hours before they take a second blood test.  I don’t know about you, but it sounds utterly crazy to me.  Which was probably a good sign that it wouldn’t go well. 

I spent the rest of the day feeling nauseous, snacking nervously, and feeling so weak I couldn’t sit up in bed.  This evening, I thought I could handle some tomato juice.  Nope.  Even that made me nauseous again, and it’s only 3.5% sugar. 

The odd thing is, my mother, my sister and I all share a blood sugar problem – it gets too low.  We have to be careful not to go too long without food, not to eat too much sweets, or we get weak, irritable and rather faint.  So why would I be having symptoms of too much blood sugar? 

I guess all will be revealed when I get the results.  Nah, it will probably just throw up more questions and a hasty misdiagnosis or two. 

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September 28, 2007

I have never heard of such a test. when i had my test for blood sugar levels, i had to go back 2 times. once normal, the second time after fasting. both times my sugar levels were high and thats how they knew i was diabetic. what is a glucose tolerance test and why did you have it? i hope you don’t have diabetes. i wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. but you seem like you take good care of yourself, not a lot of candy or lollies or whatever? i think yo should be OK? i hope so anyway. when do you get results?

October 5, 2007

Well, are you?

October 10, 2007

i’ve been away. apparently so have you..