Re: Newbie Here


"Julie Bove" <juliebove@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:i8dute$hhq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"cshenk" <cshenk1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:epOdnSlv0cEYwjfRnZ2dnUVZ_omdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Susan" wrote
Janet wrote:

Upon considering this further, I think that this might be a matter of terminology. The standard screen is a simplified glucose tolerance test that takes only one sample. If your results are high enough, you "fail" the

FBG test. Yes, normally done.

screen and go on to a full-blown GTT where you go in fasting, drink a whole bottle of the disgusting glucose glop, and have multiple samples taken over a period of several hours. I seem to recall that it might include at least one urine sample, also.
The latter is what I think of when people refer to GTTs.

Same here.

Despite what you consider an OGTT, the one hour test used between 24-28

What's the added 'O' for?

Oral. Not that there is any other kind of GTT. Not that I know of anyway.

weeks of pregnancy IS an OGTT. I had to drink the disgusting glop for mine, 25 years ago, and a more recent citation I just posted finds that "almost all" U.S. OB/GYNs use the OGTT for routine screening.

Ok, that covers pregnant women. Since most onset is around 40, and half of us are guys, not really the point is it?

But I have read in countless sources that it is standard to be given at yearly physicals after age 40. I never had it nor did my brother because we were both diagnosed prior to age 40. My parents have been given it and it was how they were diagnosed. SIL was given it as well and it was how she was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. For years her Dr. felt she was diabetic and he was going to prove it!


I've been over 40 for 22 years now and was never given one. I did have a doctor at Kaiser a few years back who ordered one for when I was scheduled to retest three months after an FBG of 101 and too-high cholesterol, but nobody told me I was going to have one and I had not planned to hang around the lab all morning so I told them I didn't want it. In retrospect maybe my diabetes would already have been identified back then, but, water under the bridge at this point.

Some of you may have/have had insurance that wouldn't pay for it, as one possibility.

No, just not normal unless the FBG is off and it takes more than a 101. 110 might though.

Dunno.



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