Glucose Tolerance Test result

[alicephilippa]

I've just phoned the docs to get the results of the glucose tolerance test that was done a couple of weeks ago. It took a bit of prompting to get the actual figures out of them. The 2hour glucose level is the blood glucose level 2 hours after a vile glucose drink.

Units
Early Aug '07
15th Aug '07

Reference

Fasting

Comments

[ramtops]

I started doing jacqi's thing last night. It's quite difficult ...

I nicked a grape from the fruit bowl and ate it, and then I had to pick another one to photograph, and then I'm left with a grape ... had to give it to perlmonger, who is still disgustingly thin.

[alicephilippa]

I'm going to start tomorrow, as I've not yet unpacked the digicam.

There has got to be some way of getting a little fat on him. By little I'm thinking of just enough to make him cuddly. Oh. er, *blush*…

Alice.

[ramtops]

> I'm going to start tomorrow, as I've not yet unpacked the digicam.

Oh good - I shall need beta testers :)

[alicephilippa]

O…h…, bugger.

:)

[alicephilippa]

I know that readings are variable. But what worries me, is following the guidelines for a fasting test, that the levels six days apart can go from "may be diabetic - follow up" to "perfectly normal".

IOW, which is it that reflects what my fasting blood glucose really is?

Alice.

[alicephilippa]

Fasting tests are a nuisance, and as this shows not necessarily reliable.

The tolerance test is an unwelcome bother as all you can do is sit there - you're not supposed to anything, even walking as far as the loo is not really approved of.

Ah, well, it's done and out of the way, and hopefully it will be a long time before I need to do another GTT.

Alice.