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07-28-2006, 02:01 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Texas
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| | | PMS and blood sugar
Am I crazy for wondering this or, are blood sugar levels affected by being on my period?
I'm just curious if like all the hormone levels an such effect that or not so I can be prepared!
~a little too nosey sometimes~
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07-28-2006, 02:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
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| | You know, I don't know! LOL I haven't had a "real" period since 2000 because of having babies and breastfeeding. I'm sure that I'll be getting them back one of these days, but until then I don't have an answer for you. 
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07-28-2006, 02:15 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Texas
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| | | hehe!
I have PCOS an so i have one 3 times a year....IF that even so since I'm having one of those wonderfully random times today...I was curious hehe
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I'm female, 27 years old and from Ohio
I was born legally blind due to a genetic disease
Diagnosed type 2-July 18th 2006--a1c-10
~currently not under a doctors care--soon to change!!~ |
07-28-2006, 02:28 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
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| | I don't envy you...a friend of mine has been trying to have a baby for over 6 years and she has PCOS. It's so sad the pain that she goes through.
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07-28-2006, 10:27 PM
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| | | Yep, I find I get weird BG patterns before and during my period. I typically notice that for a few days before I start, I tend to run a little low, and right at the beginning for a few more days I tend to run a little high. All those hormones are interconnected!
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07-28-2006, 10:35 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
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| | | ABSOLUTELY.....your monthly will effect your blood sugar. I would always go low for about three days before and then starting from day of, I would go the other direction for about three days. Very frustrating. I talked to my doc about it and he said that it was very normal to have erratic numbers before and during your period. Most women complain of high blood sugar. I was one of the few that had severe lows. |
07-29-2006, 12:15 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
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| | DEFINITELY.
I am one of the few who go very low the first 2 days, then normal after that. I think the reason I go so low may have to do with the fact that I am anemic 
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07-29-2006, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by notme ABSOLUTELY.....your monthly will effect your blood sugar. I would always go low for about three days before and then starting from day of, I would go the other direction for about three days. Very frustrating. I talked to my doc about it and he said that it was very normal to have erratic numbers before and during your period. Most women complain of high blood sugar. I was one of the few that had severe lows. | I'm like you in this respect, Nancy. I tend to go low for a few days prior (maybe even during the entire week prior), then start having highs the day it starts. In addition to the "wonderful" higher numbers, I get seriously sick - severe cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, and just overall discomfort (can't rest, but it hurts to stay up - no happy medium). The medical term is dysmenorrhea, but I call it plain he**! The only thing I've found that helps, is a heating pad to the abdomen & a day of bed rest. I've tried Motrin, Tylenol & even a couple of others, but when I get so sick like that, it all just comes up. (Sorry if that's "TMI"). 
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07-31-2006, 09:28 AM
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| | | I run higher than usual two to three days before, and then my BS seems to drop down during. |
07-31-2006, 10:52 AM
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| | | Mine varies...the more pms type symptoms I have the week before, the more erratic the numbers. I tend to run high overall, though, never low. Once I actually start it will frequently just all of a sudden go back to normal, unless it's a really crampy month, then we're still high! So on a bad month, I'm out of whack for two out of four weeks! And at that time it it really doesn't seem to matter what I eat, or how much I exercise...it's just generally high. |
07-31-2006, 02:11 PM
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| |  Not here.....
I see no correlation, personally. I'm glad not to have to take into consideration yet another factor!
Actually what I have wondered is to what degree menstruation changes A1C. As women, we are re-newing our blood supply at a slightly greater rate than men. So there would be fewer aged red blood cells in our bodies at any given time. Thus we are measuing the glycosylated red blood cells of a younger cell population. Had they been around longer, the RBCs might have had a greater chance to become tagged with glucose. So it seems to me that menstruating women would have a slightly lower A1C than if not menstruating. But of course the actual _glucose_ circulating could still be just as high as would be reflected by a higher A1C.
Darn, I was just at the doctor's this afternoon and could have asked this question.
Does anyone have any insight? (Maybe I should post a separte question.) |
07-31-2006, 04:50 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Belgrade, Serbia
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Originally Posted by slipperyelm I see no correlation, personally. I'm glad not to have to take into consideration yet another factor!
Actually what I have wondered is to what degree menstruation changes A1C. As women, we are re-newing our blood supply at a slightly greater rate than men. So there would be fewer aged red blood cells in our bodies at any given time. Thus we are measuing the glycosylated red blood cells of a younger cell population. Had they been around longer, the RBCs might have had a greater chance to become tagged with glucose. So it seems to me that menstruating women would have a slightly lower A1C than if not menstruating. But of course the actual _glucose_ circulating could still be just as high as would be reflected by a higher A1C.
Darn, I was just at the doctor's this afternoon and could have asked this question.
Does anyone have any insight? (Maybe I should post a separte question.) | Great point! 
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07-31-2006, 06:27 PM
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| | | Yep I know mine is about 200's right before and during depending on the month and the intensity of it all......
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08-02-2006, 02:27 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Texas
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| | | This might be TMI, but my fasting this morning was 260 mg/dl and I was annoyed and couldn't figure out why and then HELLO, I started. I was 300 after lunch. I def run high the day I start and for a couple of days afterwards. beyond irritating.
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08-02-2006, 08:57 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
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| | | What I really love is having a Dr who told me that this was the usual course for most women....yet when I send him bs records where I have PLAINLY marked when I was having said period, and all of the highs that go along with it, he wants to increase my insulin.
I've been thinking that a female Dr might be a better choice. |
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