I have the sugar test this week - and have ?

Can you eat before hand?
I have to have it done at a lab and I can't remember what the doctor said - to eat or not to eat?

DO NOT EAT!!! Call your doctor to be sure, but the test is for gestational diabetes and they should have given you the orange soda-like drink to gulp down about 30 minutes before they draw your blood.

Advice - make sure that your appointment is scheduled for first thing in the morning b/c then most of your 12 hour fasting will be during sleep, and it's easier to do. Drink the orange stuff very cold and over ice b/c it can taste a little nasty otherwise.

Also, bring some fruit, a granola bar and water, apple juice or something with you b/c I remember that I used to get a little light-headed after they drew blood, and I hadn't eaten yet. I took the test twice during my pregnancy b/c I have a history of diabetes in my family.

Wow! Do I have the new Mommy jello brain or what? How could I forget that orange stuff?! That's right, you had to have the test exactly 1 hour after finishing it. I didn't fast for 12 hours, I think I ate at lunchtime and had the test in the early evening.

Definitely call your doctor!

I didn't think the orange stuff was so horrid, I was prepared for it being really really nasty. It tasted like syrup for orange soda would test before they add the carbonated water, very sweet. I do remember having a sugar rush afterward though.