a ladies question

Once i didn't have a period for 6 months. Nurse told me it was normal because I was loosing weight. In my opinion nothing is happening normal in your body when you become diabetic..so the not normal is normal for diabetics
like once i had protein in my urine, nurse got vorried but when she find out i was diabetic, she said it was normal..now for a healthy person it would be not good, but because i am diabetic things can happen and there's nothing to be worried about :eh:
i guess very good control of sugars might put things back in place, but is a good sugar control normal for diabetic?
Keep trying eh :wink:

Hi Clare,
I have never really had a normal period I got diagnosed just after starting mine and the doctors said that I would miss them sometimes for a year because of my bad control. However when I went to the family planning clinic to get an implant they suggested that this wasn't normal and did quite a few tests and found that I've got polycystic ovaries but I also have a duplication in that everything is doubled as well as my kidneys. It's actually quite common but I took part in a study and found that there was a problem with one of my genes that effects this but also hormone control which means periods are sometimes few and far between but can sometimes last 6 months. It might be worth seeing a gynaecologist to get checked out I would have kept blamming my control although it's relatively good now and wouldn't have had a clue! I found that irregular periods also means uncontrolable blood sugars when I've put them both together I can see some patterns that also help my control.
Laura

Oh ladies, I'm so glad to find this post, like you all my periods are ridiculously irregular and for the past 8 months I've not had one (no I'm not pregnant). I've been scanned for Polycystic ovaries which came back normal. All my blood tests/hormone profiles are normal too. I guess it's just the diabetes! My sugar control is improving, i'd say about average these days. The only difference is that I've been running for the last 8 months, nothing hardcore, only a few mile twice a week - you wouldn't think diabetes would complicate the rest of your body! :shock:

I can't say that in my 14 years of being diagnosed I've ever had irregular periods but then I've pretty much been on the pill the whole time too. I did have a few months where they seemed to 'dry up' but I changed my pill and it's more than sorted it out... :roll:

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To all you younger ladies
Some women simply don't have 4 weekly cycles. This is not necessarily related to diabetes. If you've been T1 since you were in the early teens or earlier, it's not possible to know if you were ever meant to conform to the 28 day cycle thing.[adult regular cycles are often quite late to settle down perhaps the late teens] It's like the 40 week pregnancy thing. A large proportion of babies don't arrive on their due date.
I would say, If it worries you, get it checked. Otherwise just accept it's your way.

Hi Claire21,
Ive had type 1 since I was 8 years old and am now 51 and I never had a regular period. They were either 6 weeks or 8 - recently very rare probably due to age. One thing I noticed was that flow was exceptionally heavy when I had undiagnosed hypothyroidism, and I wonder if others had this too. :roll:

I've been tested to the limits so i've given up. I'm hoping that if I forget about for a while it will just restart again soon. I keep getting ovulation pains so something is happening!

Clare 21 have you been checked out for PCOS? I was diagnosed at the age of 16 with PCOS. My periods were never regular sometimes being months apart. I was informed that I was pre diabetic for many years but was fully diagnosed a type 2 diabetic 2years ago. I have managed to recently loose a stone in weight which has brought my periods back into a "normal" 4-6 week's for me.

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I would like to know how do you guys control the urge of eating sweet sugar things as I hardly control myself day by day and it's like a trauma when someone is eating sweet chocolates in front of me.

Hi

I have been a type 1 diabetic since i was 13 years old i'm now 43, i must say my periods have been has regular as clockwork 28 day cycle apart from when i was pregnant . But for the past few years my periods have got alot heavier and i can't understand why and last month i only went 21 days instead of 28 days. The only time i was 3 weeks late was when my consultant precribed me some vitamin D tablets and the 4 weeks i was taking them i had no signs of my period and it made me 3 weeks late, i went int BOOTS and spoke to the pharmacist he told me to do a pregnancy test even though i was sterilized 8 years ago he said it maybe an etopic pregnancy but the result was negative and 3 days after stopping the vitamin D tablets my period retured.