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It’s the one hour test and I’m just wondering what I should expect. Do I have to fast? If so how long before the test should I fast? Can I drink water?
Also, exactly how does the test work? I drink some sugary drink and then an hour later they take my blood?
I thought my doctor should have given me instructions too…but she didnt:/ Thanks for the answers so far ladies!

I have been having some symptoms of diabetes for the past couple of weeks. I have been drinking tons of water and going to the bathroom nonstop. I have also had some blurred vision, shortness of breath, and nausea. I have a doctors appointment this week and I was wondering if anyone knew how they tested for diabetes and if they will be able to tell me the results right away or if it will take like a week to get them back or something? I was also wondering if there is anything else they might test me for? Any info you have would be helpful. Thanks!

I am worried that he is going to come back with positive results and then insist on treatment, but those results will be too high. Would any ethical doctor allow a patient to take a blood test for diabetes and high cholesterol detection after they just ate? He did not ask what I ate.

Ever since i quit smoking i’ve noticed a lot of things that people tell me could be symptoms of diabetes. I know that quitting smoking will make you feel crappy for a while but it’s been 2 months now and i’m noticing it still.
Ever since i was a preteen i’ve felt like i had no energy and get easily exhausted.
I’ve also had this problem with ALWAYS being thirsty… i’m always drinking water or juice or pop or anything liquid really.
I’ve also always had a problem with getting hungry frequently… i could eat a whole meal and then half an hour to an hour later… i’m hungry again.
Not to mention that my hands and feet are almost always cold (since i was young).
I also seem to have a crappy digestive system because my stomach almost always feels “not right” as well as my bowels.
I know there could be more than one answer for these things, but I want to do the test anyway and i’m worried that my doctor wont take me seriously because i’m sort of self-diagnosing…what should i do?

Okay, I went for my gestational diabetes test last week and brought along my own meter. True track. :/
well, an hour after drinking 50 grams of sugar according to my METER it said i was at 158…yikes..its supposed to be 140 or less. Okay…I accepted the fact that I might have gestational diabetes.

Then the doctor calls me about an unrelated issue I’ve had in my pregnancy and I ask her what my results were…(assuming that she was going to have me come in for my 3 hour test…She said i was LOW normal..at a 97!
97? Really?
Either my meter is WAY WAY off or there was a mistake…(the guy who did the blood draw was BRAND NEW, said it was his first day…) so it really in my un professional opinion could go either way. Either he messed up or my meter is TRASH.
I wanted to know if there are any RELIABLE sites that might have information on which meter is most accurate (.org .gov .edu) anything. Personal experience is also helpful. I HAD a contour a while ago, but it got lost in the move to our new place…From what I experienced with that meter it was pretty right on with what I was feeling, so I had no problem trusting it.

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Okay as the title says I am like 99 percent sure I have type 1 diabetes. I didn’t start noticing a change until I was in the 7th grade and then I realized I think I had started showing the signs of diabetes when I was in the 5th grade. And this year, now that I am in 10th grade I started researching and going to different websites and forums to see if my symptoms compared and they did. I have constant urination but at first a couple years ago I had diarrhea everyday and like every couple hours it was a pain and I thought there was really something wrong with me, I also had dark yellow pee. In the fifth grade I had slightly noticed I would loose weight and I thought this was so because of puberty or something ( I was never fat as i child but i wasn’t the thinnest girl around either); but then later throughout middle school I literally lost weight EVERYDAY and i still do, i can buy tight pants for school, and they will be the tightest pants on me, where my rolls stick out and everything, but I know a few weeks later or maybe months and even in a year they will fit me perfectly because I loose weight everyday! Sometimes I like this but other times I don’t, I have lost the little muscle I had, but my arms get skinnier and skinnier ( I am practically in my book considered thin and I don’t think I have ever viewed my self as this), which I like (how do I know I lose weight aside from putting on tight jeans? Well even my boobs get smaller which is all right for me considering they are kind of big or medium sized, and the space between my thighs is practically existent) But this also sucks because i am constantly hungry even when i eat a lot, even if i eat out and finish my meals, i am full at first but then my stomach turns hollow and it basically all comes out through my basement; I urinate a lot my most of it is water and not pee, it is because i drink a lot of water, but I drink a lot of water when i don’t like my food and just constantly drink water, but when i go out to eat the waitress has to come by like four times or more to refill my water; i poop everyday which I don’t think is normal, and i have abdominal pains once in a while and they hurt like hell i feel like punching my stomach or ovaries whatever is causing me this pain the only way i can describe it, is chronic; I also get lower back pain and they hurt bad like i guess where my kidneys are, they hurt like hell; plus I sweat a lot well I don’t sweat a lot like in my face but my deodorant doesn’t help me a lot, my hands are considered “clammy” and even though i take a bath i tend to give off an order when i open my legs, it is horrible, it makes me feel so self-conscious , and like only recently like a year ago i thought i had a yeast infection (i don’t know what really one is) because i would feel an itchy sensation and sometimes i do and it just doesn’t feel good or normal (when I finally get diagnosed or something I want to rid my self of this), but I think it’s impossible that i have a yeast infection because I don’t have sexual relations and i don’t think I have warts? All I can think of is maybe having a urinary track infection. lets see i mentions, extreme weight loss, hunger, urinary track infection, abdominal pains, lower back pains, and diarrhea, oh I have blurred vision, well my vision is really bad and has gotten so in the last few years i thought it was a result of wearing other people’s glasses and sometimes my grandma’s when i was younger for fun, but i highly doubt it, i can’t see the board in class, and sometimes when i read i can’t see the words either plus i failed the eye test this year and i am going to go to the eye doctor soon when I can, in fact in the 6th or 7th grade when i failed the test then, the eye doctor told us to come back when i started to get migraines, what she didn’t know was that i was already suffering form major headaches they were really bad in the eight grade i don’t get them a lot this year and i don’t think i had them bad last year, but when i do get them they are bad and i can’t sleep or do anything, which leads me to the fact i am always drowsy and tired i thought it was pure laziness but it’s gotten to the point where i know I fall into a deep sleep I get exhausted really easily and my mom is always complaining but I get frustrated and sometimes randomly depressed because she doesn’t listen to me I cry and tell her there is something wrong with me but she does nothing she thinks vitamin C will cure me, i haven’t told her that i am sure it is diabetes because i don’t have the courage, in fact it was only a couple months ago in the beginning of the year that I had told her that i thought there was something wrong with me and she refused to listen, she blocks me out and i think it’s because we don’t have money to go to the doctor, but to tell you the truth I am afraid that it might too late when i get diagnosed or something, I already feel I have kidney failure, and sometimes this is rare but it does ha

My doctor suggested I get a blood glucose meter (I am not diabetic but am overweight and it runs in my family, I want to do everything I can to not get it). If I am not diabetic but want to watch my blood sugar levels how often and when should I test? I am a college student and I don’t have much money so I don’t want to test more often then I should. Should I test before I eat? After? And how long before or after I eat should I test? Help is appreciated!