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Refusing a glucose tolerance test?
Is it possible to refuse a glucose tolerance test? I've already had this done twice a few years ago (both the short and LONG tests) because my doctor thought I might be diabetic. I'm not, just chronic hypoglycemic. I've learned to manage this though diet. That "glucola" drink made me REALLY REALLY sick and I'm hoping to avoid this again.
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Re: Refusing a glucose tolerance test?
were you pregnant at the time of those tests?
I would think that the risk of having untreated GD is greater than the annoyance of having to take the test.
Gestational diabetes is different than diabetes. Your test results a few years ago have nothing to do with what they would be now, while pregnant.
Personally, I would suck it up and take the test.
Do the test. Your results from a few years ago have absolutely nothing to do with if you pass or fail it now.
GD is serious if left undiagnosed and untreated. Everyone can get it, it doesn't matter if you're big, small, tall, short.
Of course you can refuse it. What are they going to do, strap you down and pour it down your throat?
That said, I can't believe you're asking this because you don't like the drink. Are you going to refuse colonoscopies when you reach middle age because the prep makes you ill? You can get GD regardless of your blood sugar issues before you were pregnant. Put it on ice, suck it up (pun intended!) and take the test.
ETA: If it truly makes you violently ill, I've heard some doctors will let you just eat something very sweet (like pancakes with lots of syrup) beforehand instead of drinking the orange stuff.
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I wouldn't. It's to test for gestational diabetes, which you could not have had in a previous pregnancy, but can in this one. My mom had three pregnancies without GD, but had it with her fourth baby. You can ask your doctor about it, but I think feeling sick for a day or so would be fine with me over not knowing.
ETA: I just realized you didn't say if the previous glucose tests were from pregnancy or prior to pregnancy. Gestational diabetes is VERY different from regular diabetes.
Yeah, I'm going to agree with all of the other previous posters and say that sacrifice your comfort for the sake of your sweet baby. Gestational Diabetes can have some very serious effects if untreated or treated in the proper way.
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Ditto what everyone else says.
Just take the test but ask for alternatives to that drink.
GL!
The worst possible side effect of uncontrolled gestational diabetes is stillbirth. ?Makes the drink seem like not such a big deal.??
(read it. you know you want to.)
anderson . september 2008
vivian . february 2010
mabel . august 2012
See if you can go about refusing the whole labor thing too. And maybe even see if you can find away around those pesky night time feedings.
It's motherhood. Perhaps tolerating the drink and how it makes you feel is worth it to find out about GD, a serious issue.
You didn't get insults or belittlement. You got input (that you asked for) so just deal with it.
I, for one, agree that you shouldn't deny the test because it makes you uncomfortable. Suck it up.?
I was supposed to have it done at my next appointment, but when my doctor brought it up, I told him I would refuse it..... but this is only because I am a type 2 diabetic, already being treated by a high-risk ob, who put me on insulin. So anything that the test would tell me, I already know!!! And I am already on the recommended diabetic diet (have been for years) and taking insulin to control my sugars.
That being said, if I WASN'T already diagnosed and didn't know the deal, there is NO WAY I would refuse the test! I think refusing it because it tastes bad is completely immature and ridiculous. Someone else said it.... why don't you refuse a vaginal birth too because it will be painful.