Glucose test

There are a few alternatives:

1) Home monitoring -- consists of a home meter and specific testing times, generally right at the beginning of the day, then after a few meals.

2) Post Paradinal test -- go in fasting, get a draw, then eat a *normal* breakfast and a new draw 2 hours later.

3) JellyBelly test -- basically the same amount of sugar in a food form -- some can handle it better than the glucola crap.. others, not so much.

You do NOT Have to consent to the glucose tolerance test.  In fact, it is questionable whether dumping is really good for baby, and regardless, if the GTT is even a good indication of sugar utilization in an RNY patient.

my high risk doc came up with this way of getting around the nasty syrup...

At 20 weeks going in fasting at least 8 hours - blod drawn... go eat... come back an hour later another blood drawn... same at  24 and then 28 weeks..  He has a lot of RNY preggos that just drink the syrup... he doesn't understand because they all end up in the ER so sick that a few have been kept over night because the dumping was so bad... so he was more than happy with me when I said no way in hell was I going to take that stuff lol... so tell your OB to do this for ya... I pick a lab that is in the mall so I wait till the mall is open in the morning so after I eat I can walk around to waste the hour... hehehe...