Can I have gotten a false positive on the gestational diabetes test?
Posted by admin on Oct 6, 2009
I failed both the one hour and the three hour oral glucose test. I don’t have any risk factors except being over 25. I weighed 106 before I was pregnant and have gained 16 pounds in 30 weeks of pregnancy. I smoked twice during the three hour test. Could thins have given me a false positive?
No, there’s nothing you can really do to get a false positive on the glucose tolerance test. There is either glucose spilling in the urine or there isn’t. You are more likely to get a false negative than a false positive. To get that, you’d have to add sugar to the urine somehow. Gestational diabetes does sometimes just show up for no apparent reason, and fortunately it will go away when the baby arrives. But it does give you a heads up, as gestational diabetes means you are at a higher risk to develop adult onset diabetes- Type 2, later on in life. Since you are still fairly young, you have time to work on altering things that could affect that. At the moment, though, you need to control the diabetes for yourself and your baby. Talk with the doctor about how you can do that, and also what things you can do to lower your risk of adult onset diabetes later on in life.
No, there’s nothing you can really do to get a false positive on the glucose tolerance test. There is either glucose spilling in the urine or there isn’t. You are more likely to get a false negative than a false positive. To get that, you’d have to add sugar to the urine somehow. Gestational diabetes does sometimes just show up for no apparent reason, and fortunately it will go away when the baby arrives. But it does give you a heads up, as gestational diabetes means you are at a higher risk to develop adult onset diabetes- Type 2, later on in life. Since you are still fairly young, you have time to work on altering things that could affect that. At the moment, though, you need to control the diabetes for yourself and your baby. Talk with the doctor about how you can do that, and also what things you can do to lower your risk of adult onset diabetes later on in life.
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If you failed the second test, then you have it. The smoking shouldn’t have made a difference. I think the only thing that can make a difference is if you go jogging during the test
). You don’t have to have any of the risk factors to get GD, it just makes it more likely. Thin people get it all the time. I was in denial when they told me. It wasn’t until they gave me the meter and told me how I could tell that I believed them. Yes, it sucks. You’re pregnant, you should be able to pig out, right? But it’s not the end of the world. You can still have a few treats. The more you exercise the better your GD will get, which means you’ll be able to eat more and have an occasional treat. They gave me a diet to follow, but as time went on I would make substitutions for things that I liked better. And as long as I always remembered to test my sugars I would know if I was doing it right or not and adjust accordingly.
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No. Being pregnant alone is a risk factor. Anyone can get gestational diabetes when they are pregnant. Once you have the baby though, most likely it will go away.
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