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Fasting

gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 2016 in General Discussion
Fasting for blood tests this morning is no fun. There is way to many food commercials.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The place they send me opens at 6am
    I'm there at 5:45. DD waiting for me in the truck.
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  • RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gjshaw
    Fasting for blood tests this morning is no fun. There is way to many food commercials.


    Bacon, sausage, ham, home fries, hashbrowns, eggs, maple syrup.... Get the picture[:D]
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  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by RobOz
    quote:Originally posted by gjshaw
    Fasting for blood tests this morning is no fun. There is way to many food commercials.


    Bacon, sausage, ham, home fries, hashbrowns, eggs, maple syrup.... Get the picture[:D]


    [:(][V]
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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bacon wrapped sausage on Mondays and Fridays at the hotel this morning.[:)][:)][:)]
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  • EhlerDaveEhlerDave Member Posts: 5,158 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gjshaw
    Fasting for blood tests this morning is no fun. There is way to many food commercials.


    I feel for ya. Hope all goes well.

    I was having a smallish blood sugar problem so they had me stay in the hospital overnight to "monitor me" they checked my sugars every hour.

    My fasting at 7am was just 610. They were dumbfounded. My sugars went up all night, each and every test was higher.

    The good thing was Doc found a med I was taking had a 1/10 of 1% chance of causing this to happen, I was the lucky guy. [:)]

    Dropping that med, it was for restless leg syndrome, caused my sugars to fall back into proper reading for a insulin dependent fella, it was a rough ride for sure.
    Just smile and say nothing, let them guess how much you know.
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,771 ******
    edited November -1
    I have to fast once a year for blood work through the VA clinic. They are open at 8:30 AM and I have usually been first in line to get it done and out the door.

    I really miss my morning coffee more than food in the AM.

    I do breakfast on Sundays and most days only eat a light lunch and a pig out dinner.[:p]
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    Did that last week. Now, I seldom eat anything from supper to supper anyway, but just knowing I couldn't, had me starving at 8 AM!

    Peace

    Dan
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    should eat a good breakfast and work it off with a very lite supper to get ahead of weight gain as one gets older ...but ???
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  • joshmb1982joshmb1982 Member Posts: 8,228 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My wife thinks I'm nuts. I can usually go about all day without eating anyway. I forget why I had an appointment last year but they ordered blood work done and said I'd need to fast for 24 hrs and come back tomorrow. I told them I had not eaten since yesterday morning anyway. Surprised them and I didn't have to come back.
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  • Brian98579Brian98579 Member Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by EhlerDave
    quote:Originally posted by gjshaw
    Fasting for blood tests this morning is no fun. There is way to many food commercials.


    I feel for ya. Hope all goes well......

    ....Dropping that med, it was for restless leg syndrome, caused my sugars to fall back into proper reading for a insulin dependent fella, it was a rough ride for sure.


    Would that be Carbidopa-Levadopa? My wife takes that for restless leg syndrome. She's not diabetic, but the drug does have some side effects.
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  • EhlerDaveEhlerDave Member Posts: 5,158 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Brian98579
    quote:Originally posted by EhlerDave
    quote:Originally posted by gjshaw
    Fasting for blood tests this morning is no fun. There is way to many food commercials.


    I feel for ya. Hope all goes well......

    ....Dropping that med, it was for restless leg syndrome, caused my sugars to fall back into proper reading for a insulin dependent fella, it was a rough ride for sure.


    Would that be Carbidopa-Levadopa? My wife takes that for restless leg syndrome. She's not diabetic, but the drug does have some side effects.


    Yes, sure was. It worked well for me. It took about 6 years for the problem to show up, but when it did it hit me hard.
    Just smile and say nothing, let them guess how much you know.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Waiting area at the Local VA Has the Food Channel on the TV and just across the Isle its the Food Court. And they are slow so you sit there a while waiting.

    They got an Ear full from me.
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