Glucose Test

I heard of people doing that. I’m not sure of the reasoning behind it. I failed my 1 hour and declined to do the 3 hour as I had a hard time doing the 1 hour. They are gonna have me start checking my blood sugar myself a few times a day to make sure I don’t have GD. But I feel like it would be much beneficial for everyone to do the 3 hour instead of wasting time to possible fail the 1 hour, then have to redo it all again since so many women fail the 1 hour without actually having GD. I think it would save time and agony if they would just have people take the 3 from the start lol

So normally this would be because you had it in the past. I declined and said I would do the 1 hour.

@Chelsea this is my first pregnancy and first glucose test. I have no history of diabetes either.

@Alyssa I would push back on your dr and ask for reasoning. If they can't give you a good reason say no thank you I'll do the 1 hour. No reason to make yourself do this unless you have a history in your family

Im a FTM, and don’t have history of gd. I also was given the 2 hour test first. Fasting 12 hours for it was so hard.

@Esther one thing I learned is you are in control of your health. Dr's are giving recommendations but if they don't feel right definitely question it and feel free to say no! This is especially important during labor and delivery!

My first pregnancy I did!

I wasn’t given the option to do anything other than the two hour (with fasting) and no family history of diabetes. My OB only does the two hour - guessing it’s to be as thorough as possible? It’s boring but isn’t the worst thing in the world - my partner and I just played games on his phone the entire time, and having to get tested every hour breaks up the monotony. The worst part for me was no water during the test because I’m always SO thirsty. Every doctor is different, but if you have questions I’d definitely ask why!

I just had to do a 3 hour test and I wish I only had to do that one instead of the 1 hour, fail it and then go through it again for a 3 hour one. Honestly for me the 3rd hour was the worst so I would just do the 2 hour and hope you don’t have to go back!

Ive never heard of a 2 hour tbh. Only 1 hr and 3 hr. And this is my fourth pregnancy and third ob office

Yes- at my doctors office it’s standard to do the 2 hour test and not start with the 1. It wasn’t bad at all.

Same as some other comments, the 2 hour was the only option from my OB/the hospital I go to. I had to redo mine, so I did it twice in 8 days and it wasn’t terrible. My fasting number was 3 points over “normal” so that’s why I had to redo it. I tried both drink flavors (lemon lime and orange) and I liked the orange more! Neither were great but if you have a choice and like orange soda I would recommend that flavor haha