Hypoglycemia?!

Hypoglycemia?

What exactly is a three hour glucose test and if the results come back at the third hour with your sugar reading 55 is that a bad reading? I am in the military is this something that could affect a career?

A 3 hour glucose tolerance test is where they take some of your blood and urine at every hour for 3 hours and measure what the sugar levels are doing at those hours. A reading of 55 indicates that someone has hypoglycemia. As for affecting your career it is possible if one doesn't keep snacks around to keep the sugar levels up.

I would also recommend talking to your dr to see what they say about additional ideas for snacks and such.

I was told by a dr's office once that I had low blood sugar, a reading of 34 and I told the office that if I really had a reading that low that I would be a very sick person and not talking to them at all.