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Teen with type 1 and menstral issues

My daughter is 16 and is a type 1 diabetic.  She has pituitary suppression and insulin binding antibodies.  Her specialist have put her on the insulin called Apidra and is working wonderfully but she is having a lot of menstrual problems.  They have put her on several different pills to help control this but none are working.  Every time she has spotting or a true cycle, she gets very sick to her stomach and her sugar rises very high. She goes into DKA very quickly with this. This seems to be her only downfall right now to controlling her sugars.  Her sugars are usually great until an episode comes on and she is very sick.  Does anyone have any advice for us?  We have literally tried everything to get her under control.  
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I have type 2 and every time i have my period my blood sugars spike to over 300 not sur what you can do but just to get her more active and to eat less. good luck!
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I tend to have very low BS during my periods.  
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i am not a phycan , but the mom of a type one diabetic.  i would suggest that you see a gynacolgist that specializes or has experince  with young diabetics.   i am sorry that i could not be of more helop.  

i would also suggest that you ontact the online diabetes support team at Jdrf.org.  they might  be able to better  get you an answer form someone else as they answer wuestions one on one.
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