# What the heck!

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-the-heck/1852>\
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA\
**Tags:** hyperglycemia\
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-the-heck/1852 "2017-09-05T23:37:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/sam/32/10595_2.png) [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-the-heck/1852/21 "2017-09-06T15:57:58Z")

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Being no expert on women’s cycles… would BC of the variety that stops the cycle also smooth out the blood sugar problems women experience during that type of the month?

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**Author:** ![Jen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/jen/32/4777_2.png) [@Jen](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Jen)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-the-heck/1852/22 "2017-09-06T15:59:57Z")

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> [@Sam](#):
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> Being no expert on women’s cycles… would BC of the variety that stops the cycle also smooth out the blood sugar problems women experience during that type of the month?

Yeah, I’ve heard that might help. I decided to try metformin because I’d heard that sometimes helps and it’s low-risk. Birth control just seems to have risks associated with it that make me really hesitate to use it for a long period of time, like the next 15 years…

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**Author:** ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-the-heck/1852/23 "2017-09-06T16:07:52Z")

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> [@Jen](#):
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> I’m pretty sure hormones (which I didn’t list above) is a major contributor to my problems of the past few days.

@Jen, you don’t think it may be low-grade sickness?

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**Author:** ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-the-heck/1852/24 "2017-09-06T16:08:51Z")

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> [@Jen](#):
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> I decided to try metformin because I’d heard that sometimes helps and it’s low-risk.

It is great that you are willing to try this. You should let us know what comes out!

Cheering for you on this end, hope this gets better really soon ❤

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**Author:** ![Jen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/jen/32/4777_2.png) [@Jen](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Jen)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-the-heck/1852/25 "2017-09-06T16:53:32Z")

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> [@Michel](#):
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> @Jen, you don’t think it may be low-grade sickness?

I suppose anything is possible. I did wake up with a sore throat the other day and wondered if I was getting a cold. But it’s hard to tell, because I get a sore throats and stuffed up many days from allergies. We’ve also had smoke from wildfires affect our air quality on and off this past month. It does fit the timing for hormonal stuff, though. lol, and usually that’s what tends to make me so crazily insulin resistant.

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