Can I have gotten a false positive on the gestational diabetes test?

I failed both the one hour and the three hour oral glucose test. I don’t have any risk factors except being over 25. I weighed 106 before I was pregnant and have gained 16 pounds in 30 weeks of pregnancy. I smoked twice during the three hour test. Could thins have given me a false positive?

No, there’s nothing you can really do to get a false positive on the glucose tolerance test. There is either glucose spilling in the urine or there isn’t. You are more likely to get a false negative than a false positive. To get that, you’d have to add sugar to the urine somehow. Gestational diabetes does sometimes just show up for no apparent reason, and fortunately it will go away when the baby arrives. But it does give you a heads up, as gestational diabetes means you are at a higher risk to develop adult onset diabetes- Type 2, later on in life. Since you are still fairly young, you have time to work on altering things that could affect that. At the moment, though, you need to control the diabetes for yourself and your baby. Talk with the doctor about how you can do that, and also what things you can do to lower your risk of adult onset diabetes later on in life.

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