Drank the glucose stuff this morning

[hokiegirl82]

Blech. Tasted like flat orange soda. And having to drink it in 5 minutes wasn't fun. And I'm hungry. Sitting here at the doctor waiting for my appointment.

[rbp]

Blech. Hope it goes well.

I had to do a three-hour glucose tolerance test 10 years ago for a hypoglycemia diagnosis. Not fun. I hope I pass my one-hour this time around and don't have to do that again!

[sunshine608]

Good Luck!

I had lemon-lime and it the whole process was't as bad as I thought. My doc did tell me to eat an egg though before the test, do I wasn't face with hunger. Just boredom.

[theatre4life]

Good luck! I hope it all goes well!

[Bonita]

Ugh, doesn't sound like a great start to the day. I hope time goes by quickly and that everything is great!

[pinotgrig]

GL! It was SO sweet - blech is right!

[curbsideprophet]

My test is next week, I hope I pass the one hour. I had to take the three hour last time and that was so much worse. Good luck!

[speckledfrog]

I like the way my OB does it. YOu drink it at home 45 minutes before your appointment and then go see them. Hope your appointment went well!

[mannah]

Mar 18, 2014 8:43:22 GMT -5 speckledfrog said:

I like the way my OB does it. YOu drink it at home 45 minutes before your appointment and then go see them. Hope your appointment went well!

That's smart and so much nicer! My midwife told me that until a few years ago they used to have people just eat a bunch of whatever their favorite candy was! That would have been awesome

[mrspost08]

I had to do it at 8 weeks. I felt hung over the rest of the day. It was AWFUL! I'm dreading it at 24 weeks.

[pixiedust]

Blech. I had orange too. My practice has you do the two hour test by default, though. It really wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but even after I got food in my stomach, I felt like I'd just poisoned the baby with having the drink and nothing else in my stomach for so long...

[SJ]

Ugh. I have to do this on 4/12.

Our practice does a 2 hour for the first test - everyone I hear about does 1 hr and then 3hr.

My mom said she could never drink orange soda again after hers.

[shekels1222]

Ugh. It's the worst. So sorry.

I failed the one hour in my first pregnancy. Had to do the three hour and thought I was gonna hurl all over the OB office floor.

[hokiegirl82]

Mar 18, 2014 8:43:22 GMT -5 speckledfrog said:

I like the way my OB does it. YOu drink it at home 45 minutes before your appointment and then go see them. Hope your appointment went well!

This is how mine did it, so I was desperately trying to get the drink down before leaving home but had to take it in the car with me on the way to the doctor because it was just so sweet, I couldn't chug it all in the house. Luckily I didn't have to wait too long to get through my appointment and then have blood drawn - I did not like burping up orange soda flavor for the next several hours.

[chicago]

I guess I'm in the minority, but I didn't think it was that bad! I super rarely drink pop so I noticed the sweetness, but I felt fine afterward. Good thing since I had to do it twice (and was later dx with gestational diabetes)!