Just found out my GTT is 2 hours is that normal ?

[Purplehippo]

I always thought it was hr and if you failed that you did a 3 hour test

 

[summer rain]

Where are you? In the UK all GTTs are 2 hour xx

 

[Purplehippo]

Ahh yes I'm in uk

 

[Tami]

Yep, mine was 2 hours too, it's standard here apparently!

 

[Equreuil]

Lucky UK ladies. It is 3 hours in the US.

I just had to go through it a couple of days ago. I'd have loved to cut it short by an hour. The hunger from fasting was terrible for me.

 

[choco]

It used to be 1 hours.

My GTT was 1 hours in length in 2010. And, I had a test last month which was 2 hours. I had to rush straight back to work and I was starving!!!!!!

 

[summer rain]

The reason is we don't have the GTT as routine so instead we have the 2 hour test for those at higher risk for GD and if the results are unclear (which is rare) they just repeat the two hour test again. I hasten to add in most areas it is the two hour test with an overnight fast as well. Thankfully I did not have to have it this time xx

 

[ILoveCakee]

I have my 2 hour test at 9am (high risk because I had it in first pregnancy and diabetes runs in my family - that's why I'm having it at 18 weeks).

I hate it Almost certain I have GD, I recognise the symptoms from last time. That, coupled with severe constant sickness I have makes not eating from 9pm tonight until 11.30ish in the morning really quite disastrous. I get faint and sick and all sorts. It's a nightmare

 

[smokey]

Yep mine was 2 hours, thankfully I was able to just drink a bottle of lucazade at home at 7:30am then went in for my test at 9:30 then off home for a late breakfast so no waiting around and not too long to eat.

 

[summer rain]

It used to be 1 hours.

My GTT was 1 hours in length in 2010. And, I had a test last month which was 2 hours. I had to rush straight back to work and I was starving!!!!!!

Always been 2 hours in my area whether its a pregnant woman or not xx

 

[Purplehippo]

Mine is fast from midnight

 

[mummy3]

I did the glucose challenge on monday, was an hour and didnt have to fast, the drink was rank but didnt feel ill or anything after I'm in the states.

 

[Equreuil]

I did the glucose challenge on monday, was an hour and didnt have to fast, the drink was rank but didnt feel ill or anything after I'm in the states.

In the US, it's standard to do a 1 hr one that doesn't require fasting. It's if you fail it, you have to go back and do a 3 hour one that does.