Type 2 Corticosteroids and diabetes

I have a question. I have been having severe cough and diagnosed bronchitis from lung CT scan.

I had 3 different antibiotics ( Augmenting Forte, Doxicyclin, Clindamycin) did not work.. finally the 4th antibiotics ( Ciprofloxacin ) worked ( I took them over 6 weeks ). But I still had a severe cough and phlegm. So I asked my doctor corticosteroids, he gave me inhalers( Simbicourt and Tirade ) as well.

Cough and phlegm have got better. But my blood glucose level became very high ( 18.8 - 2hours after food ), it used to be 6.5 or 7.0... I managed it quite well before. I have been taking Sitagliptin 100mg everyday with strict diet.

According to websites, corticosteroids increase blood glucose level significantly.
So true... Will it be decreasing when I stop taking corticosteroids ?

Is there anyone who had experience of corticosteroids ?? If so, your advice will be very much appreciated.

Best wishes

Rachox said:

My only experience of steroids with diabetes is a steroid injection into my foot and it did raise my bloods sugars for a week or two. Steroids are well known to elevate blood sugars and can even induce diabetes in a non diabetic. Yours should settle down once you’ve finished the course.

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Thank you very much for your reply !! Your advice is very helpful and valuable to me !!

I am reducing the dosage slowly at the moment, so it will settle down after I finish it.

Thank you very much again !!

Best wishes

Notorious said:

Yes. I had a course of steroids for a flare up of another autoimmune disease and had to quadruple my insulin doses. I also lost my hypo awareness temporarily, which was really scary, especially with needing bucketfuls of insulin.

If you've been thinking of trying a low-carb diet, now might be a good time to try

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Thank you very much for your reply !! Your advice is very helpful and valuable to me !!

I have been taking low-carb diet and losing my weight slowly. I am not overweight, but doctor told me diabetes will go away if I loose 7 or 8 kilo. I am 158cm tall 51kg now, my target is 48 kg.

Thank you very much again.

Best wishes

Robbity said:

Like @Rachox I've had corticosteroid injections. Both times they raised my glucose levels which stayed up higher for several days, but then came back down again to my usual levels. I imagine with a course it would take somewhat longer, but it might be worth doing a forum search as this topic as cropped up on previous occasions.

(I also needed to use corticosteroid eye drops long term and years before I got diabetes, and I did wonder in retrospect whether these together with statins, may have been in part responsible for causing my T2 - but when I checked, those eye drops don't apparently cause a rise in glucose! )

Robbity

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Thank you for you reply !! Your reply is helpful and valuable to me !!
Corticosteroids definitely raises our blood glucose level.. I am reducing it now, so hopefully my glucose will go back to the level ...

Thank you again !!

Best wishes