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Got a date for my injections (Yay!).

Guzzler

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I had an appointment with a Specialist Pain Management Nurse this morning. She asked if I was OK with the date of my appointment to have the injections. I have heard nothing from them so it was lucky she asked. I will be having sacral steroid/anaesthetic injections at the end of the month! This means I might be pain free for up to three months including over Christmas.

This was a Brucie Bonus for me this morning as I've been dreading this pain managent course for weeks, had no sleep last night and wrenched my bad shoulder trying to switch on the shower switch (the cord had snapped so I had to reach up and pull the 2" piece of cord that is left dangling there). The appointment lived up to my expectations and started with a cartoon of how the brain receives signals from the body. I asked that it be stopped and said it was patronising and that last night I had watched a presentation by consultant anaesthetists who are designing better ways to diagnose spinal problems and that I hardly need to be told that when my hand touches a table my brain tells me that it is a table! I kid you not. And I have to have six weeks of this guff.
 
Keep in mind the steroids will probably raise your sugars. Just a warning as being pain free is more important than the temporary blip.
 
Diakat said:
Keep in mind the steroids will probably raise your sugars. Just a warning as being pain free is more important than the temporary blip.
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I wasn't going to post about this course of injections until I remembered other members saying that very thing about steroids affecting bg. This site is Epic! I am now forwarned about possible maybe probable rises in readings and will try to keep as low carb as I can.
My chronic pain affects my bg but it affects my quality of life even more, as you say. I will put up with raised levels for a week if it means (fingers crossed) a possibility that I may see a return to controlled bg for three months. Next A1c should be in February and the real impact will show up then.
 
Best of luck with it @Guzzler.

For what it's worth, I had a benign (but spectacular) skin condition on my chest a few months ago. When I told the dermatologist that I was diabetic, she warned me that if I used the steroid/cortisone cream she prescribed, my BG could rise. In the end I didn't use the cream and the condition went away on its own. But it was good to learn that steroids can have that effect.
 
This round of injections will be my first since dx, I've had two rounds previously and reacted well but it will be interesting to note the bg fluctuations. Skin creams with steroids tend to be very low dose as they are known to damage capilliaries close to the skin surface. I never thought I would welcome a masked man coming at me with a needle the size of a pneumatic drill but last time I had the jabs I shook the anaesthetist's hand!
 
I was told by GP that using Dermovate for years for my Psoriasis didn't give me T2. I didn't believe him but it was too late by then.
 
carol43 said:
I was told by GP that using Dermovate for years for my Psoriasis didn't give me T2. I didn't believe him but it was too late by then.
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Love your avatar!
 
I know what you mean. Boring eating education course for bariatric surgery was the same. Nice educator but bored out of my brains for those who knew nothing. Educator did try and involve me but others sniggered as didn't understand. It was no fun.
 
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