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

Better than undiagnosed diabetes I'm afraid. You need a standard amount of predictably absorbed glucose to interpret the blood results. It's the world health organisation guidelines so not without evidence. Shame it can't be done with cake! Hope you're recovered from the sugar hit now.

Someone very qualified told me that if you vomit on their shoes trying to drink the liquor of evil the same results can be obtained with a handful of jelly beans...

Of course she told me this after I had completed the tests.

I got my gp to prescribe an anti-emetic so just managed to keep it down for the two hours. Then was horribly sick after.

I've refused a GTT twice. No risk factors other than my weight and no indication of any problems. Given that like the Op of this thread I would simply have thrown it up it seemed absurd to out myself through it. I am interested to read LittleGreyAuditor's experiences. AFTER we had refused it with dd3 the midwife who we saw with the consultant for that appointment said she thought it was a perfectly reasonable choice as she was seeing a lot of overweight women being 'labelled' diabetic and having their birth choices very closely controlled as a result - without any evidence to demonstrate this improved outcomes. It's a controversial area and it seems to me a lot of women think they HAVE to have the test.

This thread is interesting, of all the women I got to know during my last pregnancy only one actually had gestational diabetes and she is/was by no means overweight let alone obese.

I am 'normal' on the BMI chart but have to have the GTT due to my ethnicity and family history of diabetes. I didn't have GD last time and I don't expect to have it again but think I'll take the test to be sure.

I would have your baby in a private hospital, and all your anti natal care as well given how you feel about the NHS.

Basing "overweight" on BMI is the cause. I am 5'8" and a size 14. I was very active pre pregnancy and carried a lot of muscle but very little fat. The BMI said obese therefore I was treated the same way as someone the same weight but a vastly different size.

One of the others I know was also "obese". Slightly shorter than me but a county level sportswoman who has fat only on her ear lobes (if even there).

The sheer volume of bullshit they tried to spin me would be amusing if not so worrying. If I had less actual knowledge I would have been on all sorts of medication and with even more intervention.

Actual gestational diabetes is dangerous. Box ticking to appease NICE guidelines and stave off future litigation is ridiculous, but entirely symptomatic of modern practice.