Menopause and Diabetes

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I know many of you might be thinking what is the relation between menopause and diabetes? Well, it can be very traumatic, for women who are reaching the age of menopause. It is not completely a negative experience, but it is a new phase of life for many women as they will go through many changes in their body both the times, as it approaches and afterwards as well.

Menopause is a major transition of a woman’s life. It provides the woman and her health care provider a chance to examine health risks, plan what should be done in advance, and develop strategies for monitoring. This is very important especially in ladies with diabetes. The significance of menopause is not liked by women with diabetes, even her health care professionals don’t like this, and it gets very difficult to manage the situation.

 

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Every women has to go through menopause since it is a natural process, women experiences this as she comes close to the end of child bearing years and when the ovaries can’t produce eggs every month. Menopause occurs when periods stop completely for a woman. It is a slow process that lasts up to ten years. It begins at the age of 40s and 51 is the average age when many women get their last period. At this age female sex hormones, progesterone and estrogen starts to decrease.

 

Connection between Diabetes and Menopause

Eventually ovaries stop producing progesterone and estrogen hormone as women approach menopause. Insulin gets affected by both of these hormones, insulin is a hormone generated by pancreas that carry glucose and it is life saving to each cell of the body.

 

Blood sugar levels can be increased by the lower level of estrogen and progesterone. This happens at the time of perimenopause where your body becomes more immune to insulin and there will be increase in blood sugar level. This happens at the time when you are approaching menopause. When you are approaching the time, the estrogen and progesterone levels decline forever and the body gains its sensitivity to insulin again and it results in fall of blood sugar levels.

The hormone variation that distinguishes menopause may worsen the chaotic situation on the blood glucose control. There may be increase in insulin sensitivity because of less progesterone and resistance to insulin increases with low estrogen, and your diabetes complications may even get worse with the lack of these hormones.

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