That time of the month...

[Munjeeta]

More aimed at the girls this one really!!

I have noticed that almost exactly a week before my period is due my sugar levels suddenly shoot up, and stay up for a few days. Does anyone else notice similar patterns in their blood sugars around the time of the month and does anyone have any good strategies of dealing with it?! 😱

 

[Admin]

Opposite!

The rationale of diabetes - mine do exactly the opposite! 🙄
How do you treat yourself? I am on basal bolus and change them all the time according to what I am doing/circumstances/time of month!

 

[punkyfairy]

as t2 i don't test my sugars but i was wondering what all you other ladies do about the sugar craving in the week before your period or if you suffer from sugar cravings, mine are really bad all i want is sweet sugary foods and i find it really hard to resist my pmt is worse now i can't give in and eat chocs morning noon and night help please😱

 

[Caroline Wilson]

My sugars tend to blip about that time of the month too. If I want chocolate I try to only have a small bar. The reasoning is if I fancy it now and have a small bar now I'll stop wanting it.

After that if I still want something sweet I try to eat fruit as this is supposed to be better than a big bag of jelly babies...

 

[Sugarbum]

as t2 i don't test my sugars but i was wondering what all you other ladies do about the sugar craving in the week before your period or if you suffer from sugar cravings, mine are really bad all i want is sweet sugary foods and i find it really hard to resist my pmt is worse now i can't give in and eat chocs morning noon and night help please😱

Hiya, sorry for the repitition (I just wrote this on a different board) Green and Blacks Dark 70% Cocoa chocolate, divine, I sound like an advert but the whole 100g (damn Im so hardcore) is only 35g carbohydrate = 3.5 units....

 

[Munjeeta]

The rationale of diabetes - mine do exactly the opposite! 🙄
How do you treat yourself? I am on basal bolus and change them all the time according to what I am doing/circumstances/time of month!

I am on basal bolus as well but haven't got quite as far as working out my ratios etc for the normal day to day stuff yet (although I am trying!)... Is that what it might take then, another 'regime', altered to suit the hormones?!

as t2 i don't test my sugars but i was wondering what all you other ladies do about the sugar craving in the week before your period or if you suffer from sugar cravings, mine are really bad all i want is sweet sugary foods and i find it really hard to resist my pmt is worse now i can't give in and eat chocs morning noon and night help please😱

Haha... Oh yes - another thing that doesn't help the old sugar levels around that time! I'd agree though, a small something oftern does the trick, I think it's better to give in at the beginning and try adn stop it than stave it off and end up eating a huge chocolate bar!!

 

[katie]

I'm such a rubbish diabetic that I really don't pay enough attention to whether my blood sugar levels rise a week before. They probably do though 🙄

 

[litto-miss-loz]

i feel that my sugars are lower around that time...

does that make me weird?? lol haha

 

[Steff]

I am same as munjeeta

 

[Munjeeta]

i feel that my sugars are lower around that time...

does that make me weird?? lol haha

I am same as munjeeta

Just for a change - we're all affected in different ways, one of the things I just LOVE about diabetes 😛

I'm such a rubbish diabetic that I really don't pay enough attention to whether my blood sugar levels rise a week before. They probably do though 🙄

Haha - don't worry, I've been diabetic since before I had periods and it's only been in the last few months that I've noticed a pattern, not that that's a good thing... 😱

 

[tracey w]

Hiya, sorry for the repitition (I just wrote this on a different board) Green and Blacks Dark 70% Cocoa chocolate, divine, I sound like an advert but the whole 100g (damn Im so hardcore) is only 35g carbohydrate = 3.5 units....

I love the 85% green n black dark, only 19g of carbs!!! (full bar) I usually have 3 small squares most days, lovely

 

[catwoman]

YES I get the chocolate craving too!!
I work in a craft shop which stocks fairtrade products, you can get 70% Divine chocolate bar, a 45g bar has 12.4g of carbs, not sure if as good as the Green & Blacks though.
Yes I agree, have a little then you won't want so much. In theory!

 

[Munjeeta]

Hehe... I love how this post has digressed to be all about cholcolate 🙂

Do people actually have different ratios around the time of their period? Mine's due next week and my levels have been high since Sunday: 12-15 (With a high 😱 of 26), even with correcting my doses as best I can... And managing NOT to eat any chocolate!!

My wisdom teeth are playing up though too, and I'm brewing for a cold... I guess all these things impact.

 

[Ally]

I was just wondering about this the other day... I find my sugars drop really low in my period week, I pretty much have to halve my rapid doses!

As for the chocolate, Thorntons does an extra dark one, 85% which is excellent! 🙂 x

 

[tracyp]

time of the month

Hi , i vary when i am due to ovulate(trying to conceive) i find my sugars rocket up on a pump so do the best i can by increasing the basal rates , this varies month to month. Then when period arrive they go back down , so for 2 weeks out of every month things are crazy but can explain it and find it a bit easier on the pump to sort out. plus for eating food the amount i carb count normal ration 10g to 1.5 units increases to 2 units for every 10g

 

[Caroline Wilson]

I wonder if the same thing happens after menopause? Any one here into or past the menopause who still has monthly fluctuations?

 

[Hazel]

at almost 55 - yes, one week a month is different.

I was unaware of this, but as I was recently put onto insulin and tablets, the hospital have asked me to keep strict records of sugar levels throughout the day. I noticed a marked difference one week in 4, when they are higher.

we females are a complex bunch - now that I through the 'change' just what is next on the agenda that can we blamed on my age?

Hazel