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Menopause and diabetes
- Thread starter sue1959
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I have no idea, but, I do know that when I was trying to get my numbers down, if they were elevated, I might have a bit of a tropical moment. Do you know how your sugars are doing, in general? Is it only the morning ones that are up or are the others up too?
I've been having hot flushes since I was... er... late teens.
That's 20 years.
But then my hormones have been screwed up for all of that time.
And the hot flushes definitely get worse when my BG levels are higher.
So hot flushes are not necessarily caused by menopause.
And they can definitely be linked to diabetes.
But I haven't ever tested my BG while 'flushing' because it always happens either in the middle of the night, or at some other totally inconvenient time!
I think I remember someone, possibly @Mud Island Dweller saying that they thought menopause had started, but it turned out to be diabetes.
Sorry Muddy, if it wasn't you!
That's 20 years.
But then my hormones have been screwed up for all of that time.
And the hot flushes definitely get worse when my BG levels are higher.
So hot flushes are not necessarily caused by menopause.
And they can definitely be linked to diabetes.
But I haven't ever tested my BG while 'flushing' because it always happens either in the middle of the night, or at some other totally inconvenient time!
I think I remember someone, possibly @Mud Island Dweller saying that they thought menopause had started, but it turned out to be diabetes.
Sorry Muddy, if it wasn't you!
summer 2013 I had hot flushes and thought it was the menopause. In November (was actually August but the surgery didn't give me the results) I was diagnosed with prediabetes. I started eating low carb and the hot flushes disappeared.
Mud Island Dweller
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Yup it was me 3 years of cussing the mepause and it was the big D 
god l am not going to pick a lottery number with my luck 
I also found when l stopped the pill my bg went down when l restarted as experiment they went up so stopped again and they came down...
god l am not going to pick a lottery number with my luck I also found when l stopped the pill my bg went down when l restarted as experiment they went up so stopped again and they came down...
Tez_Ann_J
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Just a bit of a rant: just recovering from a tummy bug, type 1 & menopausal. Trying to work out which is causing me to feel decidedly 'off colour' & prob all! 
