Perimenopause, Stress and Diabetes

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Registered: 05-08-2004
Perimenopause, Stress and Diabetes
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Tue, 06-01-2004 - 6:38pm
Can you all just bear a little w/ me..I think some of my posts sound like a whiner, and I am not, just not a good season of health right now......

Question? Anyone stressed? Anyone have Diabetes in any form? What were the symptoms? Anyone feel like the change is coming? (Perimenopause = Onset of Menopause)?

OR IS IT JUST MEEEEEEEEEEE! dede

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Tue, 06-01-2004 - 8:18pm
Hello Dede, I do not have diabetes (yet), but the symptoms are frequent urination, thirstiness, sugar in your urine, elevated fasting blood sugar, blurred vision, and ketones in your urine. I am 36 and am in peri-menopause. For me it's like PMS on speed. I have hot flashes. Nasty little things. Actually I am just one big hot flash. I am about to freeze my husband out of the house. ( To bad it's not working.) My periods come every 35 to 60 days give or take 10 days. The 60 days is great the 25's suck.:) Also not to be to graphic (Sorry), I am bleeding to death for at least two days.

By the way you are no more of a whiner than me, that's what we're here for.

Hugs, Brenda

Hugs, Brenda 

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Registered: 10-31-2003
Tue, 06-01-2004 - 8:31pm

Yes - Stress and I are very chummy.

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Tue, 06-01-2004 - 8:37pm
Exactly with the period thing. Something I learned is that you could go to the obgyn and they can test you and say that you are well within normal range of homones for NOT being peri menopause, however, what if you are and you are in the tip or end of that wide range.....anyway, I believe I am in that season, Thank God, in one way and oh craP! in another......

I have had the heavy bleeding thing too....I don't know about you Brenda, but I think I blame every thing that happens to my body on weight. My knees are in pain right now..yes I am heavy, and becuz I can't seem to find the right Driver for the business I run, I have been driving a little truck and picking up 800 lb barrels of waste (cuz I run a hazardous waste co.), and that is some heavy stuff.....also, I have gained 16 lbs since the last month and a half of stress.........intense stress...

so with some symptoms which could seem diabetic, it just seems scarey, kinda sorta, and they say that it can be you become diabetic when Obese (I loathe that word-sorry for cussing!) Thanks for your understanding! Dede

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Tue, 06-01-2004 - 8:55pm
Thanks a bunch,,,,,2 mini carnation bunches in fact, with fern too! That monkey thing is the funniest thing that I have been able to laugh at today! What a sweet little thing, and to think,,,,it's a fart joke!

Best Wishes, Dede