For women the first sign of menopause is hypoglycemia. The menopause can cause hormone levels to change, and can also cause blood glucose levels to change. To monitoring the blood glucose levels is the key to maintain diabetes during diabetes. With type 1 for women the diabetes may go through menopause later than other women, particularly if they are above the suggested weight. Estrogen levels do not decrease as rapidly in heavier women. During menopause, is important to maintain an active lifestyle then they begin to gain weight and some cases women having negative sexual side effects, can include vaginal dryness, increase in yeast infections, and urinary tract infections. To manage this effect you must discuss with your doctor, or maybe possible hormone replacement therapy, get diet or changes to your insulin and medication. To keep track of your diet during menopause, because have a well balanced diet not much help with diabetes, but also with coping with menopause.

 

For diabetics the major difficulties in dealing with menopause is the fact that some of the symptoms of diabetes and menopause can be very similar. Menopause and low blood sugar can cause dizziness, elevated body temperatures, moodiness, and short-term memory loss. But high blood sugar, like menopause, can cause fatigue. If you will have to do more blood testing than you are used to, but it means is that you won’t accidentally give yourself a surge in blood sugar because you mistook your menopause symptoms for signs of low blood sugar. Possible to change your lifestyle before change your medication. And many doctors treat menopause as a medical “condition” or “problem” that needs to be treated, must to know that menopause is actually a natural transition for a woman.