Today, I went in this morning to get my blood sugar tested to see if I had gestational diabetes. On Sunday night of this week, I found out that my test strips were expired and weren't working right. What threw me off was when I felt weird and wanted to do a test. The machine read 162, which has never happened to me before in my life. I waited two minutes and tested again. It then read 102. I knew that something was off when I tested myself another 3 times, and all the results were drastically different. I called my mom, who asked me to see if the strips were expired. They were. I went to Hilander to get new strips, but since they were bought out by Schnucks, they no longer carried my tester or strips. I was told that I could get them online. I tried that on Monday morning, and I couldn't figure it out. It was when I noticed a customer service number on the bottle of strips that I found out from the lady who answered the phone that Target might be another option. I went to Target that night when Dennis got off of work to get some new strips and test myself before my blood test the next day at the doctor's office. I didn't see that I was diabetic, since my numbers never go too high. I was eating more sugar over the past couple of months due to a very active sweet tooth! :) I wasn't sure if the added sugar would make me a diabetic, but I doubted it.
At the doctor's office, I took my glucose test first since it would take the most time. I had to go back to the lab area and drink a fruit punch drink as fast as possible. It wasn't horrible, but drinking it so fast didn't make it taste any better. I weighed in at 141.20 lbs., which wasn't too bad. My belly measured 25 cm, and the baby's heartrate was 137. Everything seemed very normal. The doctor wanted to run a few more tests on me to rule out any other issues that could occur with the pregnancy. Some of them were to test for viruses, and they could be done by testing blood and urine. I didn't give the blood for the glucose test yet, since I was waiting for the fruit punch to sink it, so I could get all the blood drawn for both tests at once. This was a good thing, since I don't like needles. I also had to pee in a cup. The results from these tests would take about 2 weeks to get back, so she told me to schedule my next appointment on the 20th. This way, I would also be able to discuss with her what had happened at my appointment with Maternal-Fetal Medicine on the 11th. The results from this visit and the one to MFM would all be available by the 20th. After giving blood and urine, I was done.
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