Basal Rates and Hormones

[T1Allison]

The "right" way to talk about diabetes?

[image] Progesterone is the big enemy of insulin. The dip of progesterone during menstruation is why many women need a basal reduction at that time. It then ramps up prior to ovulation, decreases a bit, and then climbs and decreases again for the second half of the cycle. I said in a different post elsewhere on FUD that I always have issues on Day 23. Look at the chart. I’m apparently fairly textbook there. Something I can’t remember/don’t know…is I don’t remember how Estrogen impacts insulin…