Blood Glucose Test Substitute

Hello Ladies

Im an oldtimer but I have not been on here for a while.  I did come back briefly about month or so ago and reintroduce myself.  Wel, I am know 20 weeks and my doc has prescribe I do my glucose test.  Its not the regular glucose drink done as you know most of us would dump from that.  Sure wish I could.  LOL  I had to come out of pocket almost 100 dollars to buy a glocose machine, lancents and strips to monitor my glocose for the next 7 days.  the strips was the killer- 80 bucks.  Anyway I had to do what I had to do.  I sure hate having to stick myself 4 times a day. 1. first thing in the morning after fastiing, 2 hours after 2. breakfast, 3. lunch & 4.dinner.  Today was my first day  I will let you all know the results after the 7 days. 

Oh yea at 18 weeks I found out Im having a girl!  They will confirm again at 21 weeks but they sure it is a girl. so they say.

Just wanted to share a cheaper trick for the glucometer and test strips. Relion Confirm monitor at Walmart is less than $20 and strips are less than 50 cents a piece. Hope everything works out well :)

Thanks for the info.  Wish I knew sooner. 

I had to do this with my last pregnancy too. It was frustrating because all of my numbers for my tests came back normal or even a little low (I think I did the A1C and the one where you get your blood drawn, then eat a regular meal and have it drawn an hour later). Then they thought I had extra fluid and my baby was on the larger side so they really wanted to double check that I don't have gestational diabetes. I didn't, my baby was just on the large side. That's normal for my family (plus she was only 8lb 1oz when she was born, that is NOT huge). Anyway, it was really annoying to have to do the whole finger *****ing thing. Hopefully all of your numbers are good an you'll be able to quit soon. Do you not have insurance BTW? Insurance really should cover at least part of the cost of the glucometer, lancets & strips. If you have insurance, give them a call, they may reimburse you.

Tina

Tina,

So far it looks like my numbers are on the lower end of the normal range I think.   Yesterday was 84-70-91-78 and this am was 74.   So far the baby size is on target with the norm.  The price I paid was with the insurance.  The strips would have been like 150/160 and I paid 80.  The oter stuff was inexpensive.

I'm surprised insurance didn't cover more - my test strips are covered with just a normal prescription copay (but I know everyone's copays are different).

In any case, sounds like your numbers are ina good place. During pregnancy, it's okay to be on the lower end of the range (my last fasting glucose tested at the lab was 60) because your body is making more blood than normal, so everything is sort of more "diluted" due to the increased volume of blood. I know for normal labs (non-pregnant), the goal is for fasting levels to be below 100, but I've seen many women with gestational be told that their fastings should be below 90.

Congrats on the girl! I'm 2 days shy of 18 weeks today and am hoping to find out the sex at my anatomy scan scheduled for 11/11  :)   My husband had a dream the other night that we had a boy, though, so...

I have gotten so many different "should be" ranges for fasting since becoming pregnant, that I am just going with the flow...

Ob - 100
High Risk Specialist - 75
PCP - 80

It is what it is, and as long as I fall under 90, I am feeling okay with my numbers...