Diabetes and Menopause
You think: "What is the connection between diabetes and the menopause?"
Well, for women reach this age, can be very traumatic – especially when some of the effects can be easily visible to those who are wrong, we must be aware of when our management of diabetes …
Drugs for diabetes, blood sugar at appropriate levels to maintain a balance. When sugar levels fall too low, because not enough food, or at the right time, yousuffered an episode of hypoglycemia (also called 'hypo' for short). For me it is usually manifested as tremors, irritability, sweating, and feeling too opaque. If you have diabetes, and blood sugar was low, you can do some of these symptoms are recognized, among others. A rapid shift in glucose "generally resolved within 5-10 minutes.
Now compare that some of the symptoms of early menopause, hot flushes [I call them the "surge";)] – similarsweat on a mood IPO – to join irritability, may occur during a hypo. It 'very easy to confuse the symptoms you feel.
When I started menopause, I was often confused awake at 2 am in a cold sweat as a hypo-and a quick sugar for me to decide. This has pushed my blood sugar when I do not need it. Not a good idea!
It was only after the visit to my doctor to talk about those regular, unexpectedHypoglycaemia I discovered that I had early menopause (I was in my late 40s, so it was completely unexpected, and usually does not occur until the early to mid 50s) do not.
If you are a woman with diabetes controlled with medication, and you are in the early '50s, and start with regular, unexplained hypoglycemia – blood sugar levels before, control the management of the situation. "And you can get your doctor to control symptoms. It can confuse the symptoms of diabetes and menopause is.
And girls, ifYour wife is usually a better control your diabetes and suddenly seems to have the same symptoms when she was getting her diabetes in equilibrium (if we knew then) you can be supportive and understanding, you are going through a hell of a ' experience, but I promise you will receive with her normal self, love of new and fascinating.