tri-levln and diabetes control



By Kathy from Pittsburgh, PA on May 17, 2009
Category: Tri-Levlen (Oral)

I have been diabetic since age 2. As a young adult, I was taking Tri-levlen 28 as a form of birth control. After complications which lead to having quadrupal bypass surgery, my gynecologist stopped prescribing the birth control for me. However, during the use of the pills, i had no trouble balancing my blood sugar levels. any time (even when taking anti-biotics) I was off the pills, my blood sugar levels bounced up & down and were difficult to balance. Now that I have been permanently off them for several years, I have had an impossible time during the week before (sugars running high) and during the week of my period (sugars falling off). There is no coincidence. I was on them several years and off them several years and as soon as I stopped taking them for whatever length of time for whatever reason, something was in the BC pill that helped balance my sugar. Can you tell me what it was & if it is available in an over-the-counter form or a form that a doctor will prescribe for someone with heart history<strike>?</strike>

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