Glucose Tolerance and Ultrasound

The glucose tolerance test SUCKED this morning. I wasn’t allowed to eat after 9pm last night…well, I couldn’t eat lunch yesterday because I had puked all morning…then, I was only able to eat half of my dinner (6pm) because it wouldn’t settle… So thinking that it was just nausea, I go to bed and am back up at 4:47 and RUNNING for the bathroom were I proceeded to puke my brains out... I fall back asleep at 6am and the alarm went off at 8. I get to the U/S and they check my gallbladder and the tech starts saying “hmmm” and “does this hurt when I push?”…when I tell her that I’ve had no pain and that the only pain I am currently feeling is from the wand in my rib cage she says “hmmm” again and then nothing else. As I’m walking out she tells me to expect a call from the Dr’s within a day or two. Not comforting. So I walk across the waiting room to the lab portion, get the sugar drink (which actually tasted pretty decent) and drink up. About a half hour after I drink it, I start getting the symptoms I had been complaining to the Dr about (lightheaded, dizzy, headache, hot flashes, etc)…then I pick up on the correlation. It’s almost always after I eat anything or consume anything. An hour passes and they draw my blood. She asks me how I’m feeling and I tell her…along with “I feel like I’ve been drinking all night”. She takes my blood, tells me to sit tight and leaves. She comes back in about 10 minutes later and asks if I was fasting… I tell her yes and she says that I need to go get something to eat. I told her that I live minutes away and that I was going to eat when I got home because the only thing between there and home was fast food and I can’t tolerate that lately…she then says that I shouldn’t leave unless someone was there to drive me – I manage to convince her that someone is outside (meanwhile there wasn’t) and leave...as she’s telling me to expect a phone call. So I don’t know if it was high, low or if she was just being stupid.

I went home, fell asleep ( can’t eat anything – managed to drink a glass of milk – that’s the best I’ve done... ) and got up and came to work... I feel shitty – hotter than heck, just overall yucky. If it doesn’t go away by morning, I’m going to call the Doc and see what he says.

But at least it's over for now...