Posted on 07/23/2010 3:52:11 AM PDT by screaming eagle2
why is it,that in the 21st Century,they still haven't developed a blood test a that you can take WITHOUT STARVING YOURSELF THE NIGHT BEFORE???????
Because. Thats why.
You are certainly not going to starve if you don’t eat for 8 hours or so.
If you are that close to dieing from malnutrition, a blood test ain’t gonna do much good...
Because all things are not possible just because we really, REALLY want them to be.
LOLOLOLOL!!! That's the truth, so far this morning! Thanks for the laugh!
Exactly...I went to the doc bright and early for a blood test. Test results showed I was 'borderline' diabetic, which I knew was BS. Forgot I was supposed to 'starve' before my test, and the big bowl of oatmeal, blueberries and brown sugar I had for breakfast spiked my blood sugar. Oopsie.
8? I am told it needs to be 14. So if your last bite is at 7pm you can do the blood test at 9am the following morning.
No, it was BD
It’s to torture you.. Plain and simple.
Come on! Doctors and nurses got to have some fun once in a while!
:)
Do you really find a 12 or 14 hour fast that difficult?
Why is it that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have all the money and you don’t?
I just tossed out 8 as a number, and figured by that time a persons insulin and blood glucose levels would start to normalize.
Guess it would depend on the persons metabolism. What their normal diet is. Heck, even the weather, it might be warm or cold, both would change how a person reacts to their food.
We humans these days in the developed countries are pretty spoiled. I watch the animals that live around my house and can tell you they spend a good 90% of their waking hours doing one thing - looking for food. Or eating food if they are rodent types.
It’s because a primitive type diet really doesn’t give you much. I have no doubt that for the vast majority of human history, humans were in much the same situation. Hunting and gathering - when they could find it.
Give an i-Pod to a native in the South American jungle.
He’ll probably try to throw it at some wild animal to kill it!
Fasting reduces the variability results, I suppose. If everyone ate the same foods, had the same metabolism and the same time interval between ingestion (eatin’) and the test, one could in principle, design a different, non-fasting test.
There are plenty of non-fasting lab tests. Only those measuring blood sugar and other food related measures are fasting. As an example, electrolyte level tests do not require fasting.
It’s a sign of how rich America is, even in this recession. If you are in Somalia, and you are starving, it means you haven’t eaten in days, or weeks, and you will probably die.
In America, if you are starving, it means you have scheduled a blood test tomorrow morning, and you will follow it up with steak and eggs.
I was told a “spike” shouldn’t happen if you’re not diabetic. It was a cancer doctor telling me this so.....
I was also told by an anesthesiologist that if you’re going to be put under and don’t fast it could be deadly. But I’ve never heard of anyone dieing for not eating so....
Information like this is what we call quality healthcare. As I’ve said before, it’s not that health care isn’t available, it’s that when you get in to see a doctor the care is a crap shoot.
Couldn't agree more...
They set me to come in @ 1:30 PM for the blood work, and I took it upon myself to fast the previous night.
When I got to the the dr’s office I was kinda grumpy and said something to them about scheduling blood work so late. The nurse looked at me and asked if I'd been fasting, and I said yes.
She replied ‘why? We didn't ask you to’. The fasting wasn't needed since all they were looking for was elevated white cells, etc. They didn't care about blood sugar, etc.
That made me even more grumpy! lol
For me, it's not the food, it's missing the morning pint of coffee.
That's enough to compel me to start my tests with "Good morning Doctor Adolph..."
; D
What if Eleanor Roosevelt could fly?
That’s one big advantage for those of us who drink it black, no-sugar. I can’t face the day “un-Coffeed”
Under ObamaCare, the number of prescribed fasting hours for blood work is scheduled to rise in 2012 from 8 to 10, and then one additional hour each year thereafter until 2020. After that time, the national standard for blood test fasting will be set annually by an 8-member commission appointed by the President and certified by the Surgeon General. I wouldn’t worry about it though: by then, there will be two-year wait for blood tests.
Can anybody tell me, why in the 21st century, we STILL have to deal with gravity on a daily basis....I mean COME ON now....
Darn good question.
I have my yearly physical review coming up in about a month and I’ll be fasting prior to being pricked.
We've been suffereing at our house because my husband is having a colonoscopy today. ick. So quit your griping, things could be worse. You could be starving and sitting on the toilet. lol
I find that’s it’s difficult in the morning when you can’t have your normal cup of tea.
What a bunch of whining pansies. I used to walk an hour each day to school in three feet of snow.:)
...and uphill....each way!
And barefoot.
Had surgery last week. Couldn’t eat past 8:00 pm but surgery wasn’t until 4:00 pm the next day. I drank water and told them the truth.
I haven’t seen any reports of starvation in the United States, certainly not among the class of people who regularly see a physician.
I’m told not to eat anything after midnight prior to a blood test, but I’m permitted clear fluids, e.g. black coffee/no sugar the morning of the tests.
I’d have thought that in the 21st Century the whining about not being able to stuff one’s face at any hour of the day would have abated a little more than I’m seeing on this thread.
After 6 it sticks....no problems for me.
why is it,that in the 21st Century,they still haven’t developed a way to be pregnant WITHOUT IT TAKING NINE MONTHS AND HAVING TO BECOME THE SIZE OF A HOUSE???????
Simply make your appointment for the FIRST one of the day, breakfast will just be an hour or so later, then go out and treat yourself to a sit down breakfast at your favorite eating joint. That is what we do. IHOP is our usual choice.
Oh my God! It hurts...! It hurts...!
So screaming eagle2 are you incapable of following simple directions?
I’m not sure.
[doorbell]
Ah, the pizza.
My main gripe is,this IS the 21st Century.We are so far ahead in many ways ,to include medicine.But they still use a test that can be condsidered ancient.I really don’t mind following instructions,But when you are anight auditor,and it is your job to get the breakfast ready for a hotel full of guest,not being able to eat with all the breakfast smells can be maddening
I’d really like it if doctors had something like Star Trek’s medical tricorder. Probably Roddenberry (or whomever imagined it first) had the same gripes about blood tests.
same here
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