I have thought a bit about this test - they get you to fast for 12 hours and then have you drink a very sugary drink. I don't know that this test is all that good for a person that doesn't have GD but I wonder about the impact of a test like this in a person that does have GD. Logically, it doesn't seem to me to be a safe way to diagnose a condition like this.
Sorry if it a bit off topic but that is the sort of issue I woud look into before having the test again.
I would personally contact my health provider and have a chat to them before cancelling the test - just know what you want to ask about and discuss the issues with them. If you aren't happy with the answers, you can always postpone the test to another time when you feel more certain about the necessity of it.
I did the first test (only had to wait 1 hour) results came back too high, so my obgyn said I needed to do it again. I was so relieved I did it the second time b/c I was stressing all day that something was wrong, luckily it came back ok, but it was for the peace of mind also.
It does sound like you have your hands full with 2 littlies already, but I would do it if you can, don't cancel it is only 2 hours which really does go quite quickly.
I always only do the one hour but thats because the full test is actually fairly dangerous for me without a very good reason to do it. I'd get the short one done with little kids to entertain - its already hard enough to keep them happy for that long. The one and only time they had me do the long one (without doing the short one first) I had my sister there as well - thankfully, as I had a hypo in the hallway to the bathroom and the kids would have been completely unsupervised. Oh yeah, and who knows when someone would have stumbled across me.
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