AIBU, or are the NHS being unreasonable?

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It's totally unacceptable to expect a pregnant woman to drink a pint of lucozade at 7:30 am isn't it? I'm still choking it down and feel like I'm going to be sick.

It's rancid at the best of time but with morning sickness and acid reflux... It's a violation of my human rights surely? only joking...sort of

Yup! GTT in pregnancy is like some sort of surreal joke. Get 20 pregnant women who as probably a bit "tickle stomached" anyway put them in a hot room to drink fould drink and sit there for 2hrs with nothing to distract them. Watch as they go green and then one by one follow each other to throw up...

My mate managed 1hr 50mins. She was terrified she'd void the test but it was valid.

Best test they can do though I'm afraid!

I like lucozade but the GDP test I have is fast for 12 hours then just a plastic cup of some horrible syrupy crap then bloods 2 hrs later. I have never hear of lucozade being used? Ask for a different option!

Oddly DH asked MW with DC1 to try the drink, liked it and asked for another the freak. MW was so shocked she gave it to him!

I had this - the hospital where I had my DDs just did everyone. It was lucozade - a smallish bottle, but it was room temperature - blecchh!!!

No GD either time, but it took me a while to get back to work because I had to stop and eat some slow release carbs and wait for them to work - my blood sugar went very low both times...

oh sorry missed she was sick, thought she felt sick at thought of the drink, sorry for that misunderstanding.

It is an optional test (you don't have so consent to it) but YANBU lucozade is revolting and I'm glad I never had to do it!

That's Ok, yes I was actually being sick. I have had nasty reflux so on top of the nausia at the thought of lucozade... the sugaryness brings up the acid. And then I am sick. I'm just going to assume I'm fine. I am not going to try and test again for it

I would have killed for lucozade . In our area it's liquid glucose, I can't even describe the taste - beyond foul.

Oh also, I only called to let them know I couldn't do the GD test, because I wasn't sure if they still needed to see me and didn't want to waste their time. They still sent the midwife round for my hb booking in to go over risks etc. SO the whole appt wasn't cancelled just the gd test. She did do a random sugar sample I thin.

with my now 3 year old, I had a list of things to eat first thing in the morning (can't remember the details but there was weetabix and bread on the list), and had to have blood taken at a certain time... that was preferable to the test I had last time with the yucky drink following a 12 hour fast

I had the lucozade for my prenatal glucose test, 2 cups and I was allowed to dirk it at my leisure (they said it would be wonderful it I could drink it in 15 minutes and 30 was the maximum time I could take). It was lovely as I was so hungry after fasting! I had to have the test because Dd was measuring larger than expected and I have a family history of diabetes. The test was positive.

But after she was born I had to have a second test at a different hospital. I had the luminous yellow stuff that I had to down as quickly as possible (with the nurse standing over me), then she made me drink a glass of water after.

Oh, and with the prenatal test we were allowed to go for a walk round the hospital to take our minds off it. I was prepared and bought a book though.

Request the breakfast after fasting test. It's much easier as long as you can manage the foods. From memory it was two slices wholemeal toast or wetabix with semi milk etc just needed to be weighed and measured and blood test booked for right time.

I had the lucizade one the first time 17 yrs ago moved from the north to the south and had the breakfast fasting for the next three.

I had to buy my own Lucozade!

I work in the hospital though so they let me go off and get back to work after drinking the stuff, then come back in two hours. Thank god as I'd have been so bored sitting there!

All pg women in our area had to do the Lucazade test, and we had to buy it ourselves although if you qualified it was free.
Just got told to drink the bottle at our convenience and then present ourselves to the blood taking department at our local hospital an hour later. It was great. I slugged it back just before leaving work one morning, then swanned into the hospital on my way home. There was a special buzzer for you to press so that you were called next, no waiting around either. Ooo the looks from the full to bursting waiting room when you did that :)

I had to drink a pint of tepid liquid glucose for my test, over 10 minutes max! It was so horrendous, I spent the whole day trying to avoid vomiting. My bloodsugar was fine, so I have refused to do a second test because it ruined my whole day. So horrendous. Would do the lucozade in a minute instead!

I just read that a bottle of lucozade has 16 teaspoons of sugar in!!

Disgusting! I don't eat that much sugar in a day (or several come to that)

I wouldn't drink it, do the Weetabix thing someone mentioned, sounds much healthier. They are BU.

OP when I had made last year I had to drink a cup of liquid glucose (this was in the Uk) and it was vile; warm, sweet and thick. I was nearly sick but managed to keep it down. I'd have rather had lucozade!

You have my sympathy though.

Hope your test comes back clear. Unfortunately mine was positive and I spent the last few months of my pregnancy having to stick testing and insulin needles in me numerous times a day! The little cheeky monkey asleep upstairs was worth it though

Lucozade is definitely a better option than tepid glucose solution. Vile, evil stuff and really hard to swallow and keep down.

My "massive, huge, well over 10lb" gestational diabetes baby at my 36 week scan was 8lb14 at 40+2.

Everyone I know who has been pregnant in the last 2 years has been "diagnosed" with gestational DM (6 of us in total, all different shapes and sizes). I smell a NICE guideline.

Little grey- really? I am the only person I know who had diabetes in pregnancy- except my cousin who had pre existing diabetes. Anyway I have no doubt that my diagnosis was genuine, I had to stick my finger 7 x a day and it was a real struggle at first keeping my blood glucose low. And DD's growth slowed from over 95th centile to 50th centile. And after piling on 15kg by the end of the second tri, I only gained a further 2-3 kg in 3rd tri.

Poor you. Managed to avoid it three times!

Yep. My highest ever blood sugar was 8.2. I am tall and quite muscular but not fat and was told by 3 different people that my BMI was "obese". They tried to put me straight on metformin and when I said that I wanted to try diet control they told me I couldn't see the dietician until 2/52 after my due date.

When I pointed out that metformin is not licensed for use in pregnancy they got all shifty and suddenly a dietician appointment "became available" within the week. On the diet my BS stayed below 8 for the entirety of my pregnancy.

I got the strong impression that I was being, ahem, misdirected throughout, and unfortunately for them I have a decent working knowledge of diabetes. When I questioned the information I was given I noted an immediate change of emphasis from wafty statements loosely based on fact absolute bullshit to verifiable facts.

Of the others I know one is a consultant in a related field, unbeknownst to those testing her. Her post GTT glucose was 6.3. She was told that this was "massively high" and that she would need insulin.

Her response was best described as scathing.

All in the same NHS trust. If I didn't know it was ridiculously unethical and wrong I would assume we had been railroaded into some form of clinical trial.

Anyway, that's my gestational diabetes rant. As a result of their decisions I was given a membrane sweep at 36 weeks and had a lengthy failed induction resulting in EMCS at 40 weeks. I have dealt with all that now, but if I have another, rest assured I will be ready for them.

Oh yes and I actually lost over a stone during pregnancy due to hyperemesis. I was literally all bump.

Lucozade?!? I had this lukewarm lemon stuff.

I had to do the Lucozade test as well. It was a real random volume, like 385ml. I had to buy it myself and drink it one hour before my appointment, which was in the middle of teaching year 10. I got some funny looks when I pulled out a measuring jug and bottle of Lucozade halfway through the lesson, but they found it rather fascinating when I explained.

I hated the GTT but I ended up being diagnosed with GD so it's probably good that I had the lucozade torture! Worst thing was that because I had GD I had to have a post natal GTT as well (luckily blood sugar levels were back to normal).