menopause

Hi. Completely new to all this so pls bear with. My reason for joining is I need some help and my diabetes nurses have be unable to help - not for want of trying so I thought I may get some insight here. I’ve been type 3c since losing most of my pancreas because of severe accute pancreatitis 14...

A diet high in carbs could bring on an earlier menopause, a study suggests. Eating lots of pasta and rice was associated with reaching menopause one-and-a-half years earlier than the average age of women in the UK of 51. However, the University of Leeds study of 914 UK women, also found that a...

I’m a bit nervous about posting this but, have gotten to know some of you on these forums & if I don’t ask; will bug me! :oops: I became premenopausal a year ago in March 2017 with very heavy periods & told by GP premenopausal & the heaviest periods of your life. To minimise the impact to my...

I wasn’t sure at first, but, suspected for a while, that injecting insulin at night seems to have an opposite effect, on me, & actually raises my blood sugars. There is maybe an issue with me being menopausal now: hormones? I slept this afternoon, just after having my dinner early at 15:00, &...

Women with early or normal onset menopause are at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those with late onset menopause, concludes new research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes). Previous research (by the same authors of...