Hi there, I had Gestational diabetes with my first pregnancy and yes you do have to fast for the 2hour test.. You also have to follow a high carb diet for 3 days leading up to the test and then you can't eat for 12 hours before the test so if you have your test at 8am you can't eat from 8pm the night before (except tap water).
Have you booked your appointment? Usually you have to book and when you do they give you a leaflet on what you need to do.
Hope that helps. Good luck
It tends to be something the doctors 'forget' to mention lol. I had mine about 2 weeks ago and when i was there an old man came in to have his done but no one had told him he needed to fast or be on the diet so the poor old thing wasted his morning when it would have been so much easier if the doctors just gave him the info to start with, i don't know why they don't, they only have to hand you a piece of paper with the info on it.. oh well thats my little vent lol.
Good luck with it alll, fingers crossed you don't have it!
That's ridiculous that you're not told! I organise these tests and I've never heard of a special diet for it - I send information to the patients too! I'm outraged that this is going on, it's so stupid.
Have you had the hour-long test with lucozade? In pregnancy you should only ever have the two-hour test if your sugars are too high with the lucozade test because fasting isn't great when you're pregnant.
Have you also been warned about the risk of contracting type II diabetes? If you get GD you have a 50% chance of getting type II diabetes in the next 10 years so you need a 2-hour test every 1-2 years or prior to any subsequent planned pregnancy. If you are warned about this you can do diet and lifestyle things to reduce the risk, if you don't know then all of a sudden you get diabetes and if it goes undiagnosed that's REALLY dangerous.
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