Mine is in a couple of weeks...the one hour. Is that stuff you have to drink nasty? I am worried I might barf it all back up!
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Re: So how bad is the glucose test?
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What do you mean? If I recall correctly for the 1 hr test, you drink the stuff and they do a blood draw a hour later. You could eat/drink whatever you wanted before hand and afterward. At least that is what I remember from doing the test a few years ago when I was expecting DS.
The test is no big deal. Drink a syropy drink, get a blood draw. Easy, peasy, but the stuff doesn't taste the greatest. Also, some people advise you against eating carbs/sugar before the test, personally, I think this is a bad idea. I think if you were at risk of GD, you would want to know to protect your lo and yourself from unnecessary risk. If you alter your eating/drinking habits so you can "pass" the test, when realistically you would fail under your normal eating habits, then you are really only fooling yourself and risking your and your babies health by getting a false negative. There is no shame is having GD, if you are at risk it is better to know that than to fake it and not know. GD is totally manageable and most of the time it completely resolves after delivery.
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Both my Dr and the lab told me to not eat or drink anything but water for 4 hours before coming in for the test. I know that the glucose test can be done either way, but everyone I know has had to fast before going in.
It's really not that bad. Mine sucked because I had some sort of 24 hour flu bug when I went so I felt AWFUL and then I had to chug that drink and it was not pleasant. But that being said, considering the fact that I was sick and still managed to do it without puking shows that it's really not that bad.
My advice is to make sure you are REALLY thirsty when you go. It made drinking it so much easier. I was sick and sooooo thirsty, but I didn't let myself drink anything for like an hour and a half before. I was so thirsty that chugging it was not a problem at all; I was just so happy to have some liquids!
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The taste is fine, if you like orange Hawaiian Punch.
The problem I really had with it was that when I looked at the bottle, the list of ingredients shocked me. Sodium Benzoate, Red #40, Yellow #5, artificial flavoring... I try at all costs (even pre-pregnancy) to avoid this crap, and yet that's what they give us at the doctor's office? Ridiculous. I would ask if there is an alternative to their little dye/preservative-laden cocktail. I was naive this time, but for the next pregnancy I'll be sure to ask if there is some kind of natural alternative.