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How does menstruation (i.e., period, monthly bleeding) affect your blood glucose levels?
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Basal needs to be increased up to 30% more for several days. Carb ratio increases a bit, too!
The three days before menstruation, my blood sugar tends to run higher than normal and consequently, I get super emotional. As soon as I start menstruating, I can eat like a horse while cutting my bolus rate by about 1/3 and my blood sugars are soo good. It’s completely bizarre.
When I was in the cycle, my sugar would be high for 2 days ahead (seemingly no reason and it was near impossible to lower) and then shoot down dramatically as soon as I would lose blood. I would have 24 hours of lows. It was a roller coaster, and never happened when I expected it. Now in Peri, it also has some unexpected spikes.
I’d think this site would be able to determine, based on gender, which “Question of the day” applies to who in the group.
I could have sworn that when I signed up on this site, it asked me tosay if I was male, female, or “other” (as if there were more than two biological genders).
I told the site I’m a male, so my chances of menstruating would be stuck at 0% and this question wouldn’t apply towards me and my answering the question throws off the accuracy in the answer percentage since no males menstruate and neither doyoung girls or women who have passed that stage of life or for some other medical reason no longer menstruate. Asking males to answer questions like this makes it impossible to determine the percentage of women this type of question would apply to gave which answer to the question.
Mark, there ARE more than two genders in nature. Consider the earthworm. If 2 male worms are in the mood to mate, one of them becomes a female. If 2 females meet and are in the mood, one of them becomes a male. Among humans 2% are born with both (or partially both) male and female reproductive organs. A person might be born with a vagina and undescended testes or be born with a penis and two ovaries, for just 2 examples. That is what the “I” stands for in LGBTQIA, Intersex. A recently released film, “Every Body,” tells the stories of 3 such intersex individuals with their testimonies before a congressional committee. https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/ 12/every_body_julie_cohen__film_intersex. Some species appear to have more than a handful of genders. BTW same sex behavior has been observed in every species from ants to zebras. To grow Kiwifruit you need to plant both male and female varieties. But some plants have both male and female components in one entity. Some animals, like amoebas, have no need of gender and reproduce without it. It’s a big wide wonderful world! Happy Pride Month! 😎
It has been more than 20+ years. I was using MDI, a bg monitor and different insulin, so bg was far less stable than now. For approx. 3 days before I’d start there would be unexpected high bg followed by quickly dropping to levels below 60. Once menstruation started I’d be dealing with a chaotic 4 days of near low to low bg. without regard to insulin dosage and carb intake.
I stopped menses about 18 years ago at age 50. My experience was very similar with higher than normal BGs for about three days and then unpredictable and all over the place for the next 3 days. I dreaded getting my period and was so happy and relieved when it stopped!
N/A due to menopause about 20 years ago. While I was bestriding, I didn’t notice any difference but then, want using CGM and only did 4-6 (average) finger sticks.
If I could have picked multiple answers, I would have selected the first 2, as both are true for me. Historically, my BGs would always run high the week before my period start. Still sometimes true, but less predictable. As I’ve gotten older, I sometimes run very low on first 1-2 days of my period. A severe low during such a case a few years ago is what prompted me to resume CGM use. I’m 46, so I guess this is perimenopause??
I have an IUD so I don’t menstruate, wasn’t diagnosed until age 38 (now age 44).
At 78 years old I no longer have this problem.
Lower but trying to get around that. I have a wall of data for what day of the cycle it is = how much basal. It varies about 10%. Lucky for me it’s like clockwork, but what will the next phase bring 😜? Seriously, no one else wants to talk about it. Thanks for asking!
I don’t menstruate any more, but when i did, my blood glucose would run high for @ a week before my period started and would drop low in the first 24 hours once it began.