My friend was on Prempak until about 18 months ago. At that time she was also on strong pain killers, anti depressants as well as injecting insulin. She had a bad episode and was on life support for days. In that situation all medication was withdrawn and ever since she left hospital she's been battling to sort out her health.
She's no longer on pain killers for her Fibromyalgia. She's recently been put back on anti depressants. She's getting a couple of hours sleep a night, terrible dryness, full of aches and pains and her blood sugars are constantly too high or too low. She's struggling to deal with fighting the system to get where she needs to be. She's now 54 like me and obviously post menopausal. I recently started HRT and I know what a difference it is making to me so I wondered if the continuous combined regime would help her with some of her issues. On researching a bit I found some links between diabetes and menopause and it obviously has heightened importance for a diabetic. The thing is she had no idea that menopause would even affect her diabetes control. No doctor had mentioned it and most NHS websites don't really link the two. Even if they did she is not one to research on the internet and not everyone has it. I haven't been through all of this website but the links above have been very helpful. Thank you. I just feel if there are no health reasons why she shouldn't be on continuous combined HRT then it's worth a try to see if it could help her quality of life.
She appears to have no continuity of care, no joined up thinking and a series of different locums dealing with her. Hopefully armed with some new information she can get somewhere at last. I think this particular area needs flagging up in the medical profession and a raising of awareness generally. Maybe those specialists on this site would consider looking at it. Diabetes is apparently on the rise and there must be 1000's of women out there at risk because they do not realise the impact that the menopause may have on their control of their sugar levels. Every diabetic woman in her 40's needs to be educated about this.