INS and type 1 diabetes mellitus: Our findings on self-reported variable insulin requirements in relation to the menstrual cycle are in-line with the few previous studies on women with T1D using therapies other than AID40,55 and mirror the correlation of increased insulin resistance in the luteal phase observed in women without diabetes.22,24, -26 However, this is the first qualitative study to report how women’s health-related challenges were experienced by and reacted to by women with T1D.