Recent Content by JonB100

If interested please see my original post above introducing myself, issues and background - regarding a liver transplant and newly diagnosed diabetes + adrenalin insufficiency / long term steroid use. Anyway to be short and to the point, after two years on Humulin I insulin, I am no longer...

Taks I had a liver transplant nine years ago, for PSC, an autoimmune condition. As you know a consequence of taking strong long term anti rejection drugs such as Tacrolimus, is a number of other unfortunate health conditions. Two years ago I was diagnosed as diabetic and put directly on...

The small colon, ileum, is largely used to digest food, while the large colon among other functions, removes water from faeces. Hence with an ileostomy you can easily become dehydrated. Fortunately as time progresses, your body to some extent can adapt to this change and is better able to...

Are you taking 12mg prednisolone? Are you trying to wean off this med or just reduce it? Is it necessary due to other health conditions? I have a great deal of experience of with prednisolone and eventually changed to hydrocortisone. Pred is seen as four times as strong as hydrocortisone and...

Hi, I've just joined the forum in an attempt to reply to the initial post(er), who has a transplant, is a long time user of steroids and is newly diagnosed as diabetic. This is a fairly unusual series of combined conditions, which to a large extent mimic my own. I'm at present trying to follow...