Since the result of my 1 hr glucose screening test a week ago was abnormal, I had to take the 3 hour glucose tolerance test to determine if I have gestational diabetes. I arrived at the doctor's office at 8:30 am this morning. I did not eat or drink anything since about 8:30 pm the previous night. They drew blood around 9 am to take my fasting blood glucose. After that, I had to take a sugary drink similar to the one I had for my 1 hr test. This time, I had the orange flavor. I would have preferred the fruit punch but it's not available. The drink contains 100g of glucose which is double the amount of glucose compared to the fruit punch I had last week. My blood was drawn an hour after after I finished the drink and subsequently for the next 2 hours. The wait in the doctor's office was fine since I had magazines to read but I did not expect that the drink would make me reaaaally sleepy! I guess because it's because of all the sugar from the drink. I wanted to take a nap right at the clinic's reception area! The hunger did not even bother me much. After I left the doc's office (around 12:15 pm), I went straight to the Thai restaurant which is about a block away. Needless to say, I inhaled a whole order of chicken panang and 1 cup of rice (with mango sticky rice to go)! :-).
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