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<blockquote data-quote="Rocker_C" data-source="post: 2042399" data-attributes="member: 46660"><p>Wow, thank you all for your replies! It's brilliant. I'll chime in with a few responses to you each now. </p><p></p><p>My partner is 30 years old and has a regular menstrual cycle and always has according to her. Recently we have lost a baby (sad) but this was happening before that too. It did seem to be pretty ridiculous during the pregnancy though and I was scared quite often during that time for her. I'd love to be able to find some sort of way of women having a way to test and correlate their hormone levels against their glucose as it must affect a good amount of women. Maybe one day! </p><p></p><p>I was thinking about ways to stabilise her hormones to stop these wild rollercoasters but am I right in assuming now that it doesn't help? Something such as the pill I was thinking maybe could set a base level of hormones and take this out of the equation for women. This is also so weird in my partner's case because she recently saw some DSN at the hospital here and they told her that her HBA1c level was actually improving? I was a tad shocked as was she since she's having these wild fluctuations. </p><p></p><p>What I decided to do was every time she'll scan her reader I input that data into a spreadsheet and under different time slots, I average out her readings for that time of day and the time in her cycle too. And you can clearly see it in those numbers, definite periods of lows during high oestrogen parts of the cycle, definite fluctuations when her hormones are on the "change" either up or down in some way, and then regularly showing highs during the last week of her cycle. What I thought I'd try to do too is use the spreadsheet to try and "predict" in a way what her sugars might do on average for her so then she has some idea on how it might happen. I did this using something known as a moving average, but I did it based on the part of her cycle she was likely to see those sorts of readings for. Sounds all a bit complicated but it actually tends to work out (I'd say +/- maybe 3 for her usually). I also made it a sort of thing to help her track her cycle for her to see if there was anything there I could do to help her. I felt so helpless when she started to fluctuate up and down all the time I needed to try and help her somehow. Do any of yourselves track your cycle and relate that back to your glucose and dosing then? I know Mel replied to that effect and you said that you tend to up your dose 25-30%. See to me that's a huge difference isn't it? Why doesn't the medical community get onto this I wonder? I know it must be such an individual thing as all women's bodies are different and have varying levels and perhaps even sensitivities too but it must affect a good number of women and seems so obvious yet so under-researched. </p><p></p><p>Thank you all again. I really appreciate your help and have shown my partner. I think she'd join in on here but doesn't know quite how to use forums? no idea. I think she'd gain from being a member personally and having a chat with you all. </p><p></p><p>RC</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rocker_C, post: 2042399, member: 46660"] Wow, thank you all for your replies! It's brilliant. I'll chime in with a few responses to you each now. My partner is 30 years old and has a regular menstrual cycle and always has according to her. Recently we have lost a baby (sad) but this was happening before that too. It did seem to be pretty ridiculous during the pregnancy though and I was scared quite often during that time for her. I'd love to be able to find some sort of way of women having a way to test and correlate their hormone levels against their glucose as it must affect a good amount of women. Maybe one day! I was thinking about ways to stabilise her hormones to stop these wild rollercoasters but am I right in assuming now that it doesn't help? Something such as the pill I was thinking maybe could set a base level of hormones and take this out of the equation for women. This is also so weird in my partner's case because she recently saw some DSN at the hospital here and they told her that her HBA1c level was actually improving? I was a tad shocked as was she since she's having these wild fluctuations. What I decided to do was every time she'll scan her reader I input that data into a spreadsheet and under different time slots, I average out her readings for that time of day and the time in her cycle too. And you can clearly see it in those numbers, definite periods of lows during high oestrogen parts of the cycle, definite fluctuations when her hormones are on the "change" either up or down in some way, and then regularly showing highs during the last week of her cycle. What I thought I'd try to do too is use the spreadsheet to try and "predict" in a way what her sugars might do on average for her so then she has some idea on how it might happen. I did this using something known as a moving average, but I did it based on the part of her cycle she was likely to see those sorts of readings for. Sounds all a bit complicated but it actually tends to work out (I'd say +/- maybe 3 for her usually). I also made it a sort of thing to help her track her cycle for her to see if there was anything there I could do to help her. I felt so helpless when she started to fluctuate up and down all the time I needed to try and help her somehow. Do any of yourselves track your cycle and relate that back to your glucose and dosing then? I know Mel replied to that effect and you said that you tend to up your dose 25-30%. See to me that's a huge difference isn't it? Why doesn't the medical community get onto this I wonder? I know it must be such an individual thing as all women's bodies are different and have varying levels and perhaps even sensitivities too but it must affect a good number of women and seems so obvious yet so under-researched. Thank you all again. I really appreciate your help and have shown my partner. I think she'd join in on here but doesn't know quite how to use forums? no idea. I think she'd gain from being a member personally and having a chat with you all. RC [/QUOTE]
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