Hi all
Up until my appt this week I haven't had any glucose in my urine and this week (31 weeks) the test strip showed ridiculous amounts. Not a fault of the test strip as the midwife did it twice for me. I am desperately hoping it was a bad combination of lack of sleep, 24 hours of stress in the run up to it, and too much fruit juice. All things I know which can give higher readings. I have to go back next week for a repeat urine test and I'm getting so anxious. I have a serious issue with needles. I can just about psych myself up for once in a blue moon when I know it is absolutely necessary but even then it's quite the traumatic event for me. The idea of even the glucose tolerance test of twice in 2 hours then frequent blood testing to monitor blood sugar levels makes me so anxious I want to throw up.
I know already that there is no way I could test my own blood sugar levels. The last time I had to self test blood was for an allergy test - I spent 2 hours trying to make myself do it and still not being able to actually go through with it. I haven't got anyone who could really help me do it frequently and I know it would still be massively stressful for me.
I'm so worried that i will be expected to just get over it and go through with it because I honestly don't know if I can. I know it sounds ridiculous and of course I don't want any harm to come to my bump so I'm just ending up in floods of tears over it all.
To top it off, I transferred midwives because of a bad experience with the last one. I found out she was off sick today and it may be something serious so she may not be in for my next appt. Now I'm even more worried that not only will I have to deal with this, but it may be the midwife I transferred away from who could end up covering her clinic.
I don't really know what I'm expecting you guys to say as I know there is really nothing anyone can do about the whole situation, but I just feel very anxious/worried/upset/alone with it all. Hubby is fantastic but he works shifts so I've hardly seen him for a few days and I don't know who else to talk to
Up until my appt this week I haven't had any glucose in my urine and this week (31 weeks) the test strip showed ridiculous amounts. Not a fault of the test strip as the midwife did it twice for me. I am desperately hoping it was a bad combination of lack of sleep, 24 hours of stress in the run up to it, and too much fruit juice. All things I know which can give higher readings. I have to go back next week for a repeat urine test and I'm getting so anxious. I have a serious issue with needles. I can just about psych myself up for once in a blue moon when I know it is absolutely necessary but even then it's quite the traumatic event for me. The idea of even the glucose tolerance test of twice in 2 hours then frequent blood testing to monitor blood sugar levels makes me so anxious I want to throw up.
I know already that there is no way I could test my own blood sugar levels. The last time I had to self test blood was for an allergy test - I spent 2 hours trying to make myself do it and still not being able to actually go through with it. I haven't got anyone who could really help me do it frequently and I know it would still be massively stressful for me.
I'm so worried that i will be expected to just get over it and go through with it because I honestly don't know if I can. I know it sounds ridiculous and of course I don't want any harm to come to my bump so I'm just ending up in floods of tears over it all.
To top it off, I transferred midwives because of a bad experience with the last one. I found out she was off sick today and it may be something serious so she may not be in for my next appt. Now I'm even more worried that not only will I have to deal with this, but it may be the midwife I transferred away from who could end up covering her clinic.
I don't really know what I'm expecting you guys to say as I know there is really nothing anyone can do about the whole situation, but I just feel very anxious/worried/upset/alone with it all. Hubby is fantastic but he works shifts so I've hardly seen him for a few days and I don't know who else to talk to
