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05-06-2008, 04:25 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2006
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| | | Abstain from coffee before lab tests?
Are you advised to abstain from coffee during your fasting hours before lab tests for any of the following? A1c, liver enzymes, microalbumin, cholesterol & lipids, CBC.
I got myself addicted to coffee in the time since my last round of tests.  I thought in the past I had been told that black coffee or plain tea was okay before those labs. But once when I went the lab worker asked the usual question about my intake of food and drink and then said I should not have my tests as I'd had coffee.
Addicted as I am, I sure would like to have a cup before I go in tomorrow morning. |
05-06-2008, 04:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
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| |  I am afraid you will have to go to the lab early and take your coffee with you for after your test. I understand your pain!
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05-06-2008, 04:39 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Clearwater
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| | | No nothing before test
I was told nothing before tests at all not even water. so yeah you are going to have to wait untill after the test before you hit coffee. good luck with your test by the way . |
05-06-2008, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by notme  I am afraid you will have to go to the lab early and take your coffee with you for after your test. I understand your pain! | Pffft! My hospital has a Tim Hortons!
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05-06-2008, 05:05 PM
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| | | I've always been told "only water"
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05-06-2008, 05:06 PM
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| | | I've always been told "only water"
As a kid I loved it, right after my labwork I'd get to eat at the really cool cafeteria. (My mom worked at the hospital and I thought eating there was SOOO cool.)
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05-06-2008, 05:19 PM
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| | Only water...then head to starbucks! 
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05-06-2008, 05:47 PM
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| | I have to get up quite a bit earlier than normal to make it to the lab. That is going to make it extra hard without coffee. Hope I can drive alright!
Not having a thermos is a bummer, but I'm not going to get one just for tomorrow.
Maybe this is my cue to kick the habit....again. I was off coffee for four years and then somehow it just crept back into my life. |
05-06-2008, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by xMenace Pffft! My hospital has a Tim Hortons! | What the heck is a Tim Hortons? Coffee place? Donut shop? Us West Coasters go to Java City.
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05-07-2008, 04:48 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vermont
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| | | I love coffee - and don't believe that it's unhealthy, but I quit drinking it for the same reason I quit smoking. I resent the addiction.
Of course now that I don't drink coffee, except maybe once a month, I can count other reasons to avoid it. It's expensive and stains your teeth too. It's also a diuretic so you should increase water intake along with it which leads ultimately to: don't drink a lot of coffee.
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05-07-2008, 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by xMenace Pffft! My hospital has a Tim Hortons! | Hmmm, Tim's .... it finally made it to Ireland last year, darn another Franchise I should have gone for!
For me I tend to not eat after 9pm and only drink water after that.
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05-07-2008, 05:31 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oak Hill, VA
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| | | I also have a dependence on coffee and tea, starting the morning right off with a cup. On days when I have tests, what I do is heat up a hot cup of water and pretend it is coffee or tea. I know. Not exactly the same. At least it is something.
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05-07-2008, 05:34 AM
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| | I was always told coffee is ok, but only black without sugar, which ironically is how I now (almost) drink it
I drink so much of it I am trying to cut the splenda out as it is kind of expensive. |
05-07-2008, 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by notme What the heck is a Tim Hortons? Coffee place? Donut shop? Us West Coasters go to Java City. | Not only a donut shop but THE donut shop. Coffee is god but the donuts are fantastic.
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05-07-2008, 05:37 AM
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What the heck is a Tim Hortons? Coffee place? Donut shop? Us West Coasters go to Java City.
| Nancy..........it's a coffee place, similar to Dunkin Donuts, which I believe started in Canada and then bought out another chain here in the US. We have them on the East Coast, but I'm not a fan.
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