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 Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:21 am
My apologies if I've somehow screwed up in making this topic... xp
I went to have my glucose screen today, where they take blood, give you some funky orange soda looking stuff, and then wait an hour, and take blood again.
Well, after the first time they took blood, I was fine, until a few minutes out in the lobby, where I started feeling really dizzy and faint, and everything around me was kind of..."fading out".
For those that have had this test, have you experienced anything like this...? If so...what did your test results come out like? I'm quite worried that I'm diabetic now. But it's odd, because I have ungodly amounts of sugar all the time, and never have problems.
Being preggy is all so confusing... sweatdrop
Any thoughts or words of encouragement are muchly appreciated, I am quite a worrier.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:36 am
*huggles* It's probably nothing. Maybe it could have been from them taking the blood and you having to watch them do it. GOsh, I know when I was preggo, I would get dizzy a lot. I think when I did the test, I might have, but I was right in the middle for my blood sugar. They didn't give the results right away?
It'll be okay! smile
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:38 am
Hey, I'm glad you're back. We missed you. heart
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:59 am
I had the EXACT same thing happen to me after that test! I drank the horrid orange crap, waited the hour, drew blood (which is EXTREMELY difficult for me in the first place), then passed out in the parking lot on my way to my car eek !
My Grandma was with me and she freaked out. Luckily a bunch of nurses happened to be outside on a 'smoke break' so they rushed over to help me. I was completely unconsious for a few minutes. I remember walking down the hallway towards the exit. I stopped to sip some water from a fountain. My Grandma poured some water in a little paper cup for me cause I told her I already wasn't feeling well. We walked into the parking lot, and I just blacked out totally.
I came to with nurses huddled around me and I was on the ground. sweatdrop
Anywho, my tests ended up showing me as having 'gestational diabetes.' It's like diabetes, but only while you're pregnant. Diabetes runs HEAVILY in my family, so I was not surprised that this happened. I did not have to change anything about my eating habits (I guess I was already doing well enough). One thing you have to know though, women with regular diabetes and gestational diabetes are prone to having LARGE babies. Both my kids were over 9 pounds at birth and over 21 inches long.
If you would like to know more, just post a question, and I'll try and answer it for ya since I have been through this.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:16 am
Wow, thank you!
I know I get a wee bit dizzy with the drawing blood thing in the first place, but man, I really didn't think I was going to make it today! Everything was getting white, and everything sounded like it was muffled and there was static. So bizarre.
Large babies, eh? My family already has a history of large babies anyway. Thank god we got the "birthing hips". xd It's times like these I pity the tiny women of the world.
Well, I have a pretty good guess as to how my test results are gonna turn out...but at least I don't have that "doomed" feeling I did when I left the office. Silly me actually started crying on the way home. Gotta love those preggy hormones.
Anyhoo, thanks again guys...I'll update when I get my test results back. 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:59 pm
Girl Anachronism Thank god we got the "birthing hips". xd It's times like these I pity the tiny women of the world. I'm ridiculously tiny. crying Girl Anachronism Well, after the first time they took blood, I was fine, until a few minutes out in the lobby, where I started feeling really dizzy and faint, and everything around me was kind of..."fading out". I get the same way when blood is drawn. I HATE it. I'm squeamish, so it bothers me even more. But I am getting over it. I just hate the thought of a needle in me for a long period of time. *will never get an IV* BadLoki (which is EXTREMELY difficult for me in the first place) Yes...very....
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 1:13 pm
I am glad to have helped you by sharing my experience! 3nodding
I remember when I was coming to after I passed out that everyone was muffled sounding as well. It took a few minutes before my hearing returned to normal.
And as for blood drawing being hard on me, here's why. I have naturally miniscule veins. You literally CANNOT see them. There are times when I can't even feel my own pulse because my veins are sooooo ridiculously tiny! I used to think that this was normal. That the doctors had to stick EVERYONE at least 4 times (yes at least 4 times) before they 'found' a vein. But I finally found out that the needles they were using were too large! Those needles just went right through my veins (burstng them many times and causing uneccessary bruising). So now, everytime I have to have blood drawn, I MAKE them use children's needles or 'butterfly' needles. If they won't use them, or they give me a hassle, then I refuse to have blood drawn and leave. A lot of them don't take me seriously and think I am exaggerating or scared, but I'm not.
So maybe that would help y'all out. Y'all might have tiny veins too. Try a different needle next time and see if that helps ease tension and pain.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 1:33 pm
BadLoki I am glad to have helped you by sharing my experience! 3nodding I remember when I was coming to after I passed out that everyone was muffled sounding as well. It took a few minutes before my hearing returned to normal. And as for blood drawing being hard on me, here's why. I have naturally miniscule veins. You literally CANNOT see them. There are times when I can't even feel my own pulse because my veins are sooooo ridiculously tiny! I used to think that this was normal. That the doctors had to stick EVERYONE at least 4 times (yes at least 4 times) before they 'found' a vein. But I finally found out that the needles they were using were too large! Those needles just went right through my veins (burstng them many times and causing uneccessary bruising). So now, everytime I have to have blood drawn, I MAKE them use children's needles or 'butterfly' needles. If they won't use them, or they give me a hassle, then I refuse to have blood drawn and leave. A lot of them don't take me seriously and think I am exaggerating or scared, but I'm not. So maybe that would help y'all out. Y'all might have tiny veins too. Try a different needle next time and see if that helps ease tension and pain. Nah, they always get it the first time. Mine are normal. I just hate hospitals and needles.
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:18 am
I had the same experience - I came out testing 2 points below the line for gestational diabetes. So borderline for me, whee.
Just eat lots of protein and food with calcium and iron - my doctor put me on an iron supplement because apparently my levels were all wacky. whee
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:27 am
BadLoki I am glad to have helped you by sharing my experience! 3nodding I remember when I was coming to after I passed out that everyone was muffled sounding as well. It took a few minutes before my hearing returned to normal. And as for blood drawing being hard on me, here's why. I have naturally miniscule veins. You literally CANNOT see them. There are times when I can't even feel my own pulse because my veins are sooooo ridiculously tiny! I used to think that this was normal. That the doctors had to stick EVERYONE at least 4 times (yes at least 4 times) before they 'found' a vein. But I finally found out that the needles they were using were too large! Those needles just went right through my veins (burstng them many times and causing uneccessary bruising). So now, everytime I have to have blood drawn, I MAKE them use children's needles or 'butterfly' needles. If they won't use them, or they give me a hassle, then I refuse to have blood drawn and leave. A lot of them don't take me seriously and think I am exaggerating or scared, but I'm not. So maybe that would help y'all out. Y'all might have tiny veins too. Try a different needle next time and see if that helps ease tension and pain. Oooh, I feel your pain. The last few times I went to donate blood they kept severing the veins in my arms >.< Now I make them use the little needles - the only problem is I've got what my favorite nurse calls "shy veins" - they always roll away from the needle. Yurk.
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:10 am
Girl A,
That happened to me with Alexis.....I don't do well with needles anyway and then with having my blood drawn after a medically induced sugar high and being starving for 12 hours....my body just sorta shut down. I was lucky because my doctor had moved into a ridculously huge office and his examination rooms and office were near the rear so I passed out in the newly carpeted hallway near the doors to the waiting room. My poor hubby hurt his back trying to keep me from falling down. The nurses and my Doc got me to the closest exam room and made me lay there for half an hour and eat crackers. SO three years later when iI had the test done while preggers with Brendan, my doc consulted my records and proclaimed.."Oh yeah, your a fainter" so he scheduled an exam room for me to rest in afterward and had me bring a sandwich which worked wonders though I still ended up with a major headache afterwards. I didn't have gestational diabetes with either child, though they were both close to 9 lbs!
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:50 pm
Oh man! Lucky you! I blacked out on the 3 hour and they shoved me in a weird chair w/ my feet all up and curled in a ball. I kept telling my husband I need to stretch out so my blood can start to circulate again. I needed a bed and the lab in spite of being on the first floor of the hospital refused to let me even go 100 feet to the ER to lay flat. So The entire 5 hour (yes...why they call it a 3 hour test when you are there for 5 hours is beyond me) I spent dizzy and looking through a haze. With psycho lab techs threatening to start all over again if I dared throw up b/c after blacking out I felt nauseous and my colitis had kicked in from not eating all night then having massive amounts of sugar hit my intestines. Mama was NOT happy. Since then...I drive 40 minutes away for any labs and tell them what happened. They always laugh at me and make me sit for a while before letting me stand up again.
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 8:20 am
I am *so* not looking forward to my glucose test this time...
I'm hypoglycemic, and with this pregnancy my hypoglycemia has been so bad that I can't stand still for more than 5 minutes without starting to black out - it makes my standing blood pressure very very low. Most likely the sugar rush combined with drawing the blood made your blood pressure take a dive. My doctor says that's ususally why women pass out after having blood drawn when they're pregnant - our bodies are so sensitive that a minor drop in blood pressure (like, 2 of those little vials they take) is enough to make you pass out.
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:17 am
it will be fine. just be glad you didnt have to go back and get it done agian.
i had to do it agian cuze the first time it was sorta high.
and i went back and got it agian and they had to do it 4 times. so i sat there for 5 hours. >.< it sucked but my test came out good and i wasn't diabetic. ^.^
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