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If you have gone through menopause while living with T1D, how much did your insulin needs change throughout those years?
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I went to nursing school at 53. Was going through menopause. Had awful night sweats. Lived on Tylenol pm. Probably not great but worked. Past school I was diagnosed as you guessed it. Type 2 due to age. No metabolic syndrome, weighed 100 lbs at 5’7”. Didn’t seem right after my training. Two years later an Endo told me I had type 1. Bless her. Felt better knowing.
That was when I seemed to have become insulin resistant, after 40 years as a plain old t1d.
I was finished with menopause before my T1D diagnosis, for which I am grateful.
Just before menopause at age 47, I was diagnosed with Type 2. During menopause I was finally diagnosed with Type 1. So, can’t tell what affected what.
It was very chaotic and also 24 years ago when I was still using MDI, an unreliable glucose meter and knew little about carb counting. My internist physician was really clueless. She told me that menopause would have little to no effect on my glucose levels and that I needed to be more careful about what and when I was eating. It took two appointments, 6 months apart, with widely fluctuating glucose numbers and lots of lows to convince her to write a HRT prescription. That made all the difference. Using HRT I was finally able to return to a semi-normal life and completely finished after two crazy years.
I don’t recall any changes while going through menopause. I was on a pump but not CGM back then 20+ years ago.
I don’t remember. I was on MDI and fluctuated daily with need and kept no record.
I’m peri now. It’s crazy. No method to the madness.
I was forced into menopause after my partial hysterectomy (removed uterus) @ 28 then the ovaries & tubes came out 2.5 years later. Between pregnancies, surgeries & other illnesses, neither me or my Endo made note of changes strictly due to menopause. My insulin resistance became front and center once the pregnancies started and it has remained 1st in line ever since.
I dropped insulin needs significantly (by 30units). I went through menopause at the same time I started CGM and upgraded to a closed-loop/auto-dosing insulin pump. It’s more likely the drop was due to CGM/closed-loop technology. The problem now AFTER menopause is that stress is affecting my BG much more than before menopause.
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