3rd Trimester

3 hour glucose test....

just got back from the test and that was a lot harder then I thought it was going to be. Had to sit in a chair waiting for each hour to go by and I was falling asleep between each blood drawing....now I feel nasty cuz of all the sugar and no food in my system...eating something now...How did you gals fair thru you test???
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Re: 3 hour glucose test....

  • Felt the same way! It was awful. And, they didn't give me the first one right away, so I was actually at the lab for four hours and I was starving and felt like crap afterward! Eating and taking a nap helped a lot!

    I have GD, but it's been managed by diet alone. I'm counting down the days before I can pig out on carbs again, but, I've felt so much better on the diet they have me on than I had just eating whatever before I was diagnosed.

    Good luck, and I hope all turns out normal for you!!! :)

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  • i was really worried about feeling or getting sick when i found out that i had to do the 3-hour b/c i felt sick from the 1-hour.  they gave me the option to drink the orange or lemon-lime flavored drink and i drank the lemon one b/c i hadn't before.  it wasn't that bad.  i ended up failing of course, but the test itself wasn't the worst.
  • I didn't have to take it with this one but did have to with dd1. It wasn't so bad for me, I got bored more than anything....
  • Ugh! That first hour was the worst. I was so jittery I couldn't sit still and had to get up and pace up and down the wing of the clinic I was in. After that, it wasn't so bad. I just had mine on Monday, and I passed (yay!) but the insides of my arms are all bruised up from all the blood draws.
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