Anyone else not make it through the glucose test?

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So for context- I’m 26 weeks pregnant and have suffered with sickness. From 8-22 weeks was being sick multiple times a day, I take xonvea now and it’s worked miracles. I find I feel queasy in the morning until I eat, I need food straight away.

Had my glucose test this morning which I was already anxious about as I hate blood tests, but mostly I was worried about not being able to eat as I knew it would make me sick.

I was okay getting to the hospital, survived the first blood test and glucose drink, then went to sit on the w waiting room for two hours until my second blood test. After only 15 minutes of waiting I suddenly turned to my boyfriend, told him I was going to be sick, and before he had time to grab a wastepaper bin I threw up in my hands. Got rushed into a side room where I threw up my whole glucose drink into another bin. Obviously once you’re sick, the test is void. The staff were amazing, so kind and supportive and I’ve been booked in to do it all over again in two weeks.

I don’t want to sound pessimistic, and I know I have to do it (I have a high BMI and sugar shows in my urine so chances are I do have gestational diabetes) but I also can’t see the point in putting myself through this again as I just know the same thing will happen next time. The nurse told me if it happens again there’s other options but didn’t go into detail and I was too flustered to really ask. So, what I’m asking really, is, has anyone else been in a similar situation, and what happened in the end?

Yeah, I was the same. I just refused the second time, I don't advise this ,thank goodness all was ok.

Two possibilities - could you ask to drink Lucozade instead of the glucose drink? That's a lot easier on the stomach and people find it less horrible to drink, but still delivers a hefty sugar dose.

Alternatively, you could ask if, on the base of the sugar in your urine, you could do some home finger pricks and see what they show. You MAY need a referral to the diabetic clinic to do this though, through the NHS. Worth asking your midwife.

I had hyperemesis. I refused to do the test once. I never went that long without vomiting.

I had ketones in my urine so they were worried. Of course, barely keeping down any food for weeks on end will also cause that result.

I agreed to just doing finger sticks throughout the day to test my blood sugar instead. It was annoying, but it let everyone be sure baby and I were fine.

Thank you thank you, that’s so helpful to know that there is another option (doing the finger stick test). I might go to the next appointment with some lucozade and see what happens, but if it’s another disaster I’ll ask about doing the finger pricks instead. It feels better to have the knowledge that there is a plan b here :)

But doesn’t your response tell them that you are having a too rapid increase in blood sugar and then sudden crash

isn’t your body response information enough

I'm also going to say that requesting a finger prick blood glucose monitor may be the best solution for you. While I was pregnant, I needed the GTT, but they decided it would be triggering for me to fast prior to the test (recurrent eating disorder - quite another story), and so gave me one of the finger prick devices and asked me to monitor for a week. I suppose it may be NHS Trust dependant, but I would have thought they'd agree.

I hate needles so I had a libre sensor fitted, it’s on for 2 weeks and tracks your glucose levels continuously… Completely painless to put on. Maybe ask if you can have that?

Do a week of blood sugars instead! That’s what I did as I can’t do the GTT. Added bonus is one bad reading won’t get you labelled with GD simply for being unlucky and having a high bmi.