If I eat a couple crackers before my gestational diabetes test, will that mess it up?

I’m taking the gestational diabetes test today for my baby and I wasn’t allowed to eat anything for 12 hours before the test and I can’t eat anything until after they’ve taken blood 3 times in 3 hours, so I won’t get to eat a thing until 1:30 this afternoon! That’s 16 hours without food and I’m starving already! Seriously, if i nibble a couple Ritz crackers, will that mess up the test results? I can’t take it anymore!

Yes, you’re not supposed to eat anything at all because food will affect your blood sugar level.

I know it stinks. I got so hungry and weak and ill feeling the morning of my test because of going without food that long. I had a snack in my purse, though, that I scarfed down as soon as the test was done!

It is just something you have to go through, unfortunately. Hang in there!

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