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VikingGirl12 · March 2016

Kballew10 said:

MamaNicoleof3 said:

crdo said:

PBear93 said:

crdo said:

PBear93 said:

@crdo, I know. Now I really want Jimmy Johns or Jersey Mikes--but the whole no lunch meat thing...

@ahernandez16: I just....I can't.

I might have to cheat this once and get it.

Report back and tell us how amazing it was!

*whispers* I can't tell you how many subs I've eaten... *runs away*

At a baby shower the other day, I had a turkey sandwich. I ate it while H watched and just gave me "the look". I looked straight back at him, said "I won't get Listeria, I freaking want a turkey sandwich, and you can't stop me because we are in public." It was delicious. I've been craving Jimmy Johns for MONTHS.

DH always side eyes me when I eat a deli sandwich. I'll quit eating mine when you stop eating yours.

Lilwatz · March 2016

MamaNicoleof3 said:

@LilwatzI totally don't want to beat it!! I've never had issues in my previous PGs, so I'm not worried. I'm more concerned with how the glucola will make me feel, since I typically get very nauseous if I have a ton of sugar. And if I have GD, I'm more the type to worry when it happens and just go with it. But it's super helpful to know you're there and I'll have a place to ask questions!!

You'll be fine! And you cannot have GD. As chef in our dream house I need you to be able to taste all the delicious foods.

MamaNicoleof3 · March 2016

Lilwatz said:

MamaNicoleof3 said:

@LilwatzI totally don't want to beat it!! I've never had issues in my previous PGs, so I'm not worried. I'm more concerned with how the glucola will make me feel, since I typically get very nauseous if I have a ton of sugar. And if I have GD, I'm more the type to worry when it happens and just go with it. But it's super helpful to know you're there and I'll have a place to ask questions!!

You'll be fine! And you cannot have GD. As chef in our dream house I need you to be able to taste all the delicious foods.

Hahaha! Deal!

Bear14+ · March 2016

Hey guys question...I'm rotating through all the dr's at my practice and today the one I saw said I don't have to get another tdap because I got one when I was pregnant with my son in 2014. Isn't the whole point to pass immunity to the new baby? I'm confused.

Lilwatz · March 2016

Bear14+ said:

Hey guys question...I'm rotating through all the dr's at my practice and today the one I saw said I don't have to get another tdap because I got one when I was pregnant with my son in 2014. Isn't the whole point to pass immunity to the new baby? I'm confused.

My practice wants me to get another. Also got one in 2014.

Mr0616 · March 2016

Yeah, that whole not eating sandwiches thing.

Totally failed that.

amangels2 · March 2016

I am so with everyone that is craving a Jimmy John's sandwich. Ugh, I used to eat at least one a week. But I made the decision at the beginning of pregnancy to not eat deli meat and I'm sticking to it. I have told my mom and dad that they will be getting me a JJ sandwich after baby boy is born.

goldie987 · March 2016

Bear14+ said:

Hey guys question...I'm rotating through all the dr's at my practice and today the one I saw said I don't have to get another tdap because I got one when I was pregnant with my son in 2014. Isn't the whole point to pass immunity to the new baby? I'm confused.

they've done studies to show that it isn't harmful to get boosted every pregnancy, even if you were last boosted as little as a year previously. I'm not a medical professional but I would go with the current medical recommendation to get it every pregnancy, just ask them and they shouldn't have an issue giving it to you.

NicknShan · March 2016

QUESTION - I know that no one should *cheat* the GD test, but has anyone actually heard of a story in which someone *cheated* the test and did indeed have GD?

My unprofessional opinion would be that if you have GD, even *cheating* the 1-hour wouldn't give passing results because it is so conservative (i.e. false positives).

Anyone have thoughts on this?

goldie987 · March 2016

NicknShan said:

QUESTION - I know that no one should *cheat* the GD test, but has anyone actually heard of a story in which someone *cheated* the test and did indeed have GD?

My unprofessional opinion would be that if you have GD, even *cheating* the 1-hour wouldn't give passing results because it is so conservative (i.e. false positives).

Anyone have thoughts on this?

I don't think there's a way to cheat the test unless you don't actually drink all of the drink or give yourself more than the 1 hour between drinking and the blood draw. My office makes you drink it in front of them and give them the bottle back to make sure you actually drank it all in the time frame given. My guess is someone did try to cheat the test and had GD that went uncontrolled and the office either got in trouble or the person attempted to sue (wouldn't be a surprise in my area). If you have GD, you're going to fail the test (if done properly) no matter what you do.

MamaNicoleof3 · March 2016

I agree with @Sgoldberg247. I would think if you have it, there's no way to fool the test.

Lilwatz · March 2016

@NicknShan I don't know of anyone who has cheated and had it. But I also don't know anyone who has really cheated....

Here's the thing I think. The one hour is not actually pass/fail. It is not actually an accurate test for diagnosis. It simply lets your provider know if you are at risk for it and if a diagnostic test makes sense to do (typically the 3 hour). So, I could see being able to manipulate the numbers to be just south fo the provider's cut off and not taking the 3 hour when you might actually have it. But, commonly, if you need the 3 hour and only missed the cutoff by a small amount you'd pass the 3 hour anyways.

I guess my view is why not test if it's questionable? I've never changed my food habits in hopes of my score being slightly lower. But, that's me.

Sydvicious08 · March 2016

Yalllllllll, just get a hot sub! 10 sec in the microwave will kill any bacteria!

splsmama2016 · March 2016

sdnybrk said:

Yalllllllll, just get a hot sub! 10 sec in the microwave will kill any bacteria!

Or just eat a cold sub from a good deli? Lol. I limit myself to one a week (if I want a sub) but I make sure that it's from the places who take the time to clean their store as well as proper storage of their product.

Ps. I had a turkey sandwich from Jersey Mikes a couple weeks ago and it paired nicely with my mini mimosa I had. No regrets here. Except that I should have added bacon to my sandwich....

PBear93 · March 2016

You guys are not helping. I'm starving today and this thread is just making me even hungrier. I've already had cereal, eggs, two plums, a peach, and some crackers and it's only 11:30. I'm still hungry.

goldie987 · March 2016

Lilwatz said:

@NicknShan I don't know of anyone who has cheated and had it. But I also don't know anyone who has really cheated....

Here's the thing I think. The one hour is not actually pass/fail. It is not actually an accurate test for diagnosis. It simply lets your provider know if you are at risk for it and if a diagnostic test makes sense to do (typically the 3 hour). So, I could see being able to manipulate the numbers to be just south fo the provider's cut off and not taking the 3 hour when you might actually have it. But, commonly, if you need the 3 hour and only missed the cutoff by a small amount you'd pass the 3 hour anyways.

I guess my view is why not test if it's questionable? I've never changed my food habits in hopes of my score being slightly lower. But, that's me.

The only reason I was careful what I ate leading up to the test (normal dinner but no carbs/sugar after) is because of my huge needle phobia. I have all of 2 veins that I'm somewhat okay with them using, the rest are really deep and many people have hit nerves trying to get to them. 4 blood draws means I will most definitely pass out at least once while there, if not more than once. I have no qualms with the time or having to drink that crap again or fasting, I just can't deal with the damn needles!

Emztron500 · March 2016

I don't think anything you do will make you pass the 1-hour glucose screen if you're diabetic. Being careful about what you eat just makes it less likely for you to have a fluke glucose spike if you're not really diabetic so you don't have to go through the 3-hour for nothing. If you're actually diabetic your numbers will go crazy no matter what you did to prepare (unless like PPs said you actually somehow do the test wrong, like not drinking the entire drink or throwing off the timing of the blood draw - but if you're going to do something like that then just refuse the test in the first place because what's the point)

Huskerfanz · March 2016

ahernandez16 said:

@Huskerfanz I saw this yesterday and I thought of you. I'm sorry you have to be pregnant for over 2 years.

QBF

Sometimes I feel two years pregnant!

GinnyJ2012 · March 2016

The only reason I will have mostly protein the morning of my test (before my 2 hour "fast") is because with my first pregnancy I had a carb heavy breakfast and was very sick. They took my blood as I was throwing up and I passed out from the sugar spike then rapid fall. I didn't have GD that time. My second pregnancy I had eggs before and I wasn't sick at all, no GD that time either. I'll have eggs again this time too.

kwife15 · March 2016

My doctor also recommended to have eggs with a little bit of cheese for breakfast before coming to do the test in three weeks. So not looking forward to it.

alysemci · March 2016

Bear14+ said:

Hey guys question...I'm rotating through all the dr's at my practice and today the one I saw said I don't have to get another tdap because I got one when I was pregnant with my son in 2014. Isn't the whole point to pass immunity to the new baby? I'm confused.

You need to get one in your last tri in order to pass immunization to your baby until they are old enough to get one. Get it

alysemci · March 2016

NicknShan said:

QUESTION - I know that no one should *cheat* the GD test, but has anyone actually heard of a story in which someone *cheated* the test and did indeed have GD?

My unprofessional opinion would be that if you have GD, even *cheating* the 1-hour wouldn't give passing results because it is so conservative (i.e. false positives).

Anyone have thoughts on this?

I've never heard of anyone but I think it would be impossible to cheat if you really have it. Even if you passed the fasting part, after you drink that ridiculously sugary drink you're blood sugar is going to spike no matter what if you have it

MamaNicoleof3 · March 2016

I finished my glucose challenge, along with a Rhogam shot and DTap (or is it TDap?). My poor arms and booty

goldie987 · March 2016

MamaNicoleof3 said:

I finished my glucose challenge, along with a Rhogam shot and DTap (or is it TDap?). My poor arms and booty

I give you SOOO much credit....I would be a complete mess if I had to get all of that done at once...I'm pretty sure I have it set so, provided they get a vein on the first attempt (they've failed this twice now because my veins are apparently unusually slippery), I only need one needle stick per visit. I'm down to 2 visits where I'll have to get poked, once for the tdap and once more for 3rd trimester CBC and state mandated syphillis tests...I can't wait to be done with the needles

MamaNicoleof3 · March 2016

@Sgoldberg247 needles don't bother me, so I was just like, "let's get it all done." But man, doing it at every appt would suck. Aside from the first tri blood work, these are the only pokes I've had. It seems like way less than my other two PGs....and I haven't had to pee in a cup at all this time! HOLLA!

HBamama2B · March 2016

I too haven't seen anything that will skew results (besides eating during fasting periods). The only research I was able to find about reducing GD risk was a correlation between consuming probiotics daily and reduced rates of GD. I've been eating yogurt since 1st tri just in case it helps. Not so I don't fail the test, but so i hopefully lessen the risk factors Bc I desperately don't want GD and the complications for my little guy. I have other risk factors so I've been thinking about it for a while. Not much we can do though!

goldie987 · March 2016

MamaNicoleof3 said:

@Sgoldberg247 needles don't bother me, so I was just like, "let's get it all done." But man, doing it at every appt would suck. Aside from the first tri blood work, these are the only pokes I've had. It seems like way less than my other two PGs....and I haven't had to pee in a cup at all this time! HOLLA!

I haven't needed one at every visit but there is a max of one stick per visit. I would legitimately cry if I needed one per visit. I had betas done as well as 1st and 2nd tri bloodwork (for downs and neural tube defects) but that was it, plus the blood draw for sugar (and a CBC while they had the needle in).

MeganF08 · March 2016

Sgoldberg247 said:

MamaNicoleof3 said:

@Sgoldberg247 needles don't bother me, so I was just like, "let's get it all done." But man, doing it at every appt would suck. Aside from the first tri blood work, these are the only pokes I've had. It seems like way less than my other two PGs....and I haven't had to pee in a cup at all this time! HOLLA!

I haven't needed one at every visit but there is a max of one stick per visit. I would legitimately cry if I needed one per visit. I had betas done as well as 1st and 2nd tri bloodwork (for downs and neural tube defects) but that was it, plus the blood draw for sugar (and a CBC while they had the needle in).

I was afraid of needles when I got pregnant. After 21 weeks of twice weekly injections and at least one blood draw every two weeks for progesterone I am finally in a place where I don't feel sick each time they stick me but I definitely can't look while they are doing it. I just took my three hour test this morning, 4 draws and a shot later and my poor veins look destroyed. People at work just stare at my arms as they walk by. This is one of the few times where I am glad that I look obviously pregnant or else I have a feeling I would be meeting with my boss this morning.

Emztron500 · March 2016

There's a big demonstration a few blocks from my place right now advocating for a better funding model for midwives, which is a cause I feel very strongly about, but I just glanced at the twitter feed and got emotional and started crying like a little bitch so I don't think I'll be going down there. I don't want to end up on the front page of the local paper as "sobbing pregnant woman outside the legislature building"

amangels2 · March 2016

I am not so scared of needles, I just can't watch at all. I also don't like to see the needle. At my glucose test, one of the doctors was excited because she got the needle in the right place the first time. That wasn't really something I wanted her to celebrate. It made me more nervous for the next draw. I did have a pretty decent sized bruise on my arm afterwards.

I had to give myself a trigger shot when I had my iui. That was very nerve wracking, especially since I had to prep the needle and everything. I just had to keep reminding myself WHY I was doing it and I got through it. But it was not easy. I don't know how people who need insulin or other regular shots do it.

Lilwatz · March 2016

Man, reading these I am so glad I don't have a needle phobia. I stick myself 5 times daily (4 blood sugar pokes and a blood thinner injection in my tummy). Plus I go to the lab monthly to get blood drawn to test my thyroid levels. All of that in addition to the normal pregnancy crap (1st tri draw, h&h, glucose tests and immunizations). I'm a freaking pin cushion. Like someone else said, I prefer not to watch them put the needle in, but once it's in, meh. I watch the blood flow! The phlebotomists at my lab know me and I know all of their life stories I am there so much.

HBamama2B · March 2016

I was scared of needles...then IVF happened. Morning (1x) and nightly (2-3x) injections plus a blood draw every damn day at the last half of the cycle. Bring it the F on OB! King Kong... ain't got nothin... on me!

(but legit, needles suck ass and I'm sorry for anyone who gets stuck, ever.)

Lilwatz · March 2016

Rant time. I changed jobs last month and got new insurance. They refuse to cover my thyroid medication. Like, I went to the pharmacy Sunday and they were like, "Yeah, that's not covered at all, it's $130." So I called the insurance company and they said I could have my endocrinologist file an appeal. I did. They responded to them today saying they refuse to even review the appeal and they just refuse to cover it. Screw the medical reasons my dr gave. The fact that my tsh (which should be under 5 not pregnant and under 3 pregnant) spiked to 28 on one of the approved rugs and 17 on the other. Or the fact that a spiking tsh is very bad for my unborn baby.

I want to call them and demand that they tell me to F myself and my unborn child directly because that is basically what they are doing.

UAGAHAHARAHATAHAGAH. Rant over.

Current solution from my endo? Go back on the drug that spiked me to 17. That's not stressful or terrifying at all.

PBear93 · March 2016

crdo said:

PBear93 said:

crdo said:

PBear93 said:

@crdo, I know. Now I really want Jimmy Johns or Jersey Mikes--but the whole no lunch meat thing...

@ahernandez16: I just....I can't.

I might have to cheat this once and get it.

Report back and tell us how amazing it was!

I got Jimmy Johns and it was just ok. I prefer Jersey Mikes, but JJ delivers....so, that's what I got. I asked for light mustard and it had WAY to much--I had to wipe it off with several napkins.

crdo · March 2016

Lilwatz said:

Rant time. I changed jobs last month and got new insurance. They refuse to cover my thyroid medication. Like, I went to the pharmacy Sunday and they were like, "Yeah, that's not covered at all, it's $130." So I called the insurance company and they said I could have my endocrinologist file an appeal. I did. They responded to them today saying they refuse to even review the appeal and they just refuse to cover it. Screw the medical reasons my dr gave. The fact that my tsh (which should be under 5 not pregnant and under 3 pregnant) spiked to 28 on one of the approved rugs and 17 on the other. Or the fact that a spiking tsh is very bad for my unborn baby.

I want to call them and demand that they tell me to F myself and my unborn child directly because that is basically what they are doing.

UAGAHAHARAHATAHAGAH. Rant over.

Current solution from my endo? Go back on the drug that spiked me to 17. That's not stressful or terrifying at all.

What the FACK?! Lady, give your insurance company hell. That is beyond ridiculous that they refused to even consider your endocrinologist's appeal, let alone grant it. I'm pissed for you.

crdo · March 2016

PBear93 said:

crdo said:

PBear93 said:

crdo said:

PBear93 said:

@crdo, I know. Now I really want Jimmy Johns or Jersey Mikes--but the whole no lunch meat thing...

@ahernandez16: I just....I can't.

I might have to cheat this once and get it.

Report back and tell us how amazing it was!

I got Jimmy Johns and it was just ok. I prefer Jersey Mikes, but JJ delivers....so, that's what I got. I asked for light mustard and it had WAY to much--I had to wipe it off with several napkins.

Oh, boo. Sorry your should-have-been euphoric sandwich wasn't dreamy

MamaNicoleof3 · March 2016

@Lilwatz- wow. I'm pissed for you. WTH?!

Mr0616 · March 2016

@lilwatz keep on fighting! My mom has some major medical issues and needs certain medications/treatments as well. She is on my fathers retirement plan and had to get on the phone with that company's vp that handles their insurance provider to bitch about the insurance. Then her doctor had to call the company (not insurance company) to explain why it was medically necessary and whole bunch of other crap. It took months to get that cleared up. Effing insurance companies.

PBear93 · March 2016

@lilwAtz call and give them hell. I'm really sorry I've had to deal with my share of crappy insurance stuff. I hope you get it worked out.

@crdo--me too. I'll just have to have something extra yummy for dinner.

Huskerfanz · March 2016

HBamama2B said:

I was scared of needles...then IVF happened. Morning (1x) and nightly (2-3x) injections plus a blood draw every damn day at the last half of the cycle. Bring it the F on OB! King Kong... ain't got nothin... on me!

(but legit, needles suck ass and I'm sorry for anyone who gets stuck, ever.)

Yep! I had to do injections with my IUIs. Needles are a lot less scary now.

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