Glucose tolerance testing?!
Question: so im 30 weeks and i had to go in today for a 3 hour glucose test! but i agter 1 hour i threw up!!!! last time i went in for the 1 hour test i was ok but they told me my results came back a bit elevated!!! so now they told me i have 2 to the test again but with jellybeans? weird has this ever happened 2 anyone else do u have 2 do test? because ive been feeling like crap since i drank that thing and i dont want to do this again do you absolutely have 2? laast time they told me i could have toast and a cup of milk and i think thats why my results came back a little elevated but today i had to fast since 12:00 pm so i dont know do u have 2 have this test done because usually i feel fine !!!!! also since becoming pregnant if i dont have even a littke something for breakfast i throwup so usually i get up around 7:00 am and have a little bit of cereal or toast so i wont feel like throwing up and if i dont do this i throw up!!!!!!
Answers: so im 30 weeks and i had to go in today for a 3 hour glucose test! but i agter 1 hour i threw up!!!! last time i went in for the 1 hour test i was ok but they told me my results came back a bit elevated!!! so now they told me i have 2 to the test again but with jellybeans? weird has this ever happened 2 anyone else do u have 2 do test? because ive been feeling like crap since i drank that thing and i dont want to do this again do you absolutely have 2? laast time they told me i could have toast and a cup of milk and i think thats why my results came back a little elevated but today i had to fast since 12:00 pm so i dont know do u have 2 have this test done because usually i feel fine !!!!! also since becoming pregnant if i dont have even a littke something for breakfast i throwup so usually i get up around 7:00 am and have a little bit of cereal or toast so i wont feel like throwing up and if i dont do this i throw up!!!!!!
Dear Lizy, I'm sorry you're having such a rough time with the glucose tolerance test. Unfortunately, that's the usual way for doing it. You have your blood tested before the drink, this is to give them something on which to base the following results. That would be termed your fasting blood sugar level. After the drink, which I know is sickly sweet ... probably why you're finding it so difficult to keep it down, they test your blood sugar at fairly regular intervals to see what's happening with your blood sugar control. Obviously, if it remains high, you will be termed either diabetic or you have gestational diabetes which, unfortunately, puts you at added risk of developing diabetes later in your life. (Sometimes the diabetes just stays with you, but normally gestational diabetes 'goes away' after you've had your baby.)
The reason jellybeans were suggested is that they contain a large amount of sugar (glucose), which is basically what they've already tried giving you, but in liquid form. You will probably find that the jellybeans are easier to keep down. The chances are that you'll eat the jellybeans INSTEAD of having to drink the glucose drink again.
Unfortunately, it's imperative that the test is carried out as diabetes can put both mother and baby at risk.
The diagnosis of anemia came because when they test your blood they're screening for a number of conditions. It's not due to the drink that they gave you that they found that out ... simply that they were screening you for various things.
Best of luck to you and your baby.