Re: -fasting question for tests

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you should not have anything but water.

-fasting question for tests

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I'm going to get the VIP Plus Profile II which includes the cholesterol tests. The paperwork I received simply said to fast 10-12 hours. On the site it said if a test says to fast you can have water and black coffee. I just want to make sure it is ok to have coffee. I don't want to screw up anything but I really would like to be able to have my coffee. Topper said you might know about this.

Thanks.

Shelli

[Guest guest]

Oh Bummer! Thanks.

Shelli

-fasting question for tests

,

I'm going to get the VIP Plus Profile II which includes the cholesterol tests. The paperwork I received simply said to fast 10-12 hours. On the site it said if a test says to fast you can have water and black coffee. I just want to make sure it is ok to have coffee. I don't want to screw up anything but I really would like to be able to have my coffee. Topper said you might know about this.

Thanks.

Shelli

[Guest guest]

Yes, if HealthCheck says you can have the black coffee and water, then, as far as I'm concerned, we could have it. Just don't put any cream of sugar or anything else in it. The only thing that I was ever told (but not by them) about drinking water beforehand is that it can affect your chloride, but this one doesn't seem to be of major importance on testing. I just wouldn't be drinking a gallon of water throughout the 10 to 12 hrs, lol! I had a doctor one time tell me that I couldn't have so much as a sip of water or even ice chips the whole time, and I almost passed out in the office, before the blood tests! I won't go down THAT road again. I suspect that adrenals had something to do with that, though I didn't know it at the time, and the idiot didn't even test me for anything else, though I was complaining of feeling faint and almost choking to death with absolutely no water. Just no food, other drinks, or anything that would involve caloric intake. You would want the blood sugar to be fasting, but make sure you tell the lab that it IS fasting, of your own choice. Thyroid panels alone, are never fasting.

-fasting question for tests

,

I'm going to get the VIP Plus Profile II which includes the cholesterol tests. The paperwork I received simply said to fast 10-12 hours. On the site it said if a test says to fast you can have water and black coffee. I just want to make sure it is ok to have coffee. I don't want to screw up anything but I really would like to be able to have my coffee. Topper said you might know about this.

Thanks.

Shelli

[Guest guest]

I only know you are better at putting it together than I am. I just don't

do anything including water before a test! LOL

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>Reply-To: The_Thyroid_Support_Group

>To: <The_Thyroid_Support_Group >

>Subject: Re: -fasting question for tests

>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:33:44 -0500

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Actually makes good sense, come to think of it, because coffeee does

stimulate the adrenal glands and the cortex of the brain. I suppose that

would stimulate the hypothalamu, in turn stimulating the pituitary, in turn

stimulating the thyroid gland, BUT, what if the gland can't make any more

T3? What then? It would go to reason to me, if the gland can't make it,

then how could it be increased? The cortisol part makes perfect sense.

Makes me wonder, though, thyroid tests have always been nonfasting, so what

other foods could affect this cycle of happenings at testing time, or, for

that matter, any other time?

Re: -fasting question for tests

> I had been going and getting tests for everything but cortisol and told

> coffee was OK as long as black. When I started using a lab in FL that was

> the main office so ran them there, they said no, because the caffeine

spikes

> insulin and cortisol which in turn changes thyroid levels. I showed them

the

> thing from their papers that showed coffee was ok and told them that i had

> been drinking coffe before I went. The lab tech two days in a row after

that

> days test ran tests with and then without coffee. My thyroid free t3 and

tsh

> were higher with coffee. How is that for strange. I mentioned this back

then

> on about.com. Many lab techs and a scientist agreed, they would never

drink

> coffee prior to testing. JMHO from seeing it.

[Guest guest]

I always tell them, including the last doctors that I had, that I have GOT

to drink a few sips of water along, or I will choke to death, and that's no

exaggeration. I can remember way back, when it was easy not to. I really

don't understand why I dry out so badly, unless there might be a Sjogren's

problem there now. I can drink over a gallong of water a day, but I must

drink at frequent intervals because of dryness and choking, if I don't.

Re: -fasting question for tests

[Guest guest]

One of our TV stations has a health fair each year with low cost or

no cost screenings. They ENCOURAGE drinking a lot of water the night

before and the day of the blood test. In fact while you are standing

in line for the blood test they give everyone a small thing of water

to drink. It makes it easier to draw blood if you've drank a lot of

water.

Louise

> I always tell them, including the last doctors that I had, that I

have GOT

> to drink a few sips of water along, or I will choke to death, and

that's no

> exaggeration. I can remember way back, when it was easy not to. I

really

> don't understand why I dry out so badly, unless there might be a

Sjogren's

> problem there now. I can drink over a gallong of water a day, but

I must

> drink at frequent intervals because of dryness and choking, if I

don't.

>

>

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> Re: -fasting question for

tests

[Guest guest]

Can you post some links about this?

I have consistently low sodium levels (1 point above the bottom of the

range), yet my BP is high! I never understood that until now.

Thanks for the info!

blithe

, when you were hospitalized, was it ever determined that your

kidneys are " turning out " most of the fluid you put in, rather than

reintroducing the sodium and water again to the body. Most

hypoadrenal people, I've been reading, have a LOT of trouble holding

onto their salt and body water. I think that the abnormal fluid loss

is actually responsible for the salt losing syndrome. The permanent

form of this is called hyponatremia, I THINK, but what I've seen on

this quirk of the kidney is that they withhold water, so that the body

will hang onto the salt, plus they increase the salt in the diet. I

frankly think that a lot of these people actually have hypoadrenal

problems instead, but I'm not sure. None of their water is stored, so

therefore, they also lose their salt right out their urine, which

repeats the thirst cycle and salt loss.