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Question about glucose testFrom: unknown (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 31 Oct 2001 20:08:26 -0600 (CST)
I went into my OB's office and had the one hour glucose test done with the little machine...they pricked my finger and put the little paper in the little, hand-held digital device. I passed my fasting, but flunked the one-hour after I drank the 50mg of glucose. So, I went in for my three-hour test the next day at the doctor's office. The same machine was used, and again I passed the fasting, but barely flunked two out of the following three. I was sent to a nutritionist. The RN went over all of the information about testing myself and gave me the identical machine that was used at the doctor's office for my own testing 4 times a day. When I told her that that was the same device used to diagnose me, she said she was appalled. She said I should have been sent to a lab and had my blood tested in a $100,000 machine, not that little thing. She said that little device was NOT approved for diagnostic purposes and since my levels were so borderline and fasting was normal, I may not even have G.D. (Btw, my glucose was 70, two and a half hours after I ate two bowls of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and drank a cup of tea with lots of honey.) What is the standard for diagnosing gest. diab. after the one-hour test shows abnormalities? Should I call my doc and insist on a better test? Thanks!
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