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Nasal steroids and type 2 diabetes

lucylocket61

lucylocket61

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Wrexham
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
I have been using nasal steroids, by prescription due to chronic rhinitis, for 4 months now. My blood sugars are slightly up, but my main problem is an 8 lb weight gain on the same diet as I was on previously.

I cant find anything conclusive about any possible link, anyone got any ideas please? I am supposed to be on them for them forever., and cant face further weight gain or even less food.
 
You could try cutting all carbs for 2 weeks and see if it gets better without the steroids? Inflammatory conditions often helped by zero carb.. just a thought...
 
bulkbiker said:
You could try cutting all carbs for 2 weeks and see if it gets better without the steroids? Inflammatory conditions often helped by zero carb.. just a thought...
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As you know, I have complex health issues and cutting all carbs, or even reducing them further, is not an option for me. I have to consider balancing my whole health.
 
bulkbiker said:
I have a funny feeling that all of your conditions would improve by reducing carbs further... but...
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NO, they would not. I would like you to accept that sometimes some of us need carbs in our diet. And I would like you to respect the complex medical needs of others when pushing a "zero carbs for all" agenda. I am looking for advice based on my own medical needs and issues.

Now, back to my question about a link......................
 
Yes I use a steroid nasal spray for allergic rhinitis which I have most of the year round and I take a antihistamine tablet every day It is worse in the hay fever season and I can feel that starting now actually I get both on prescription. I do try to have a break from using them in the winter depending how my rhinitis is. I certainly have not put on weight while using them and do not think they affect my blood glucose much and I have been on them now for nearly two years. Trying to put on weight is more of a problem for me Cutting the carbs any lower is not a cure all for everything and you know your body best and what amount of carbs you need
 
Anything that raises blood glucose concentration is likely to contribute to weight gain simply by the presence of a requisite increase in blood insulin.

I think @bulkbiker may have been trying to help you, rather than ‘pushing an agenda’, as it were. I’ve read some literature suggesting that many of these types of conditions may be linked to wheat proteins, so perhaps he was suggesting a temporary reduction in all carbs as a means of potential elimination of problem foods.
 
I sympathise, I use a steroid inhaler for asthma, but that predates my diabetes diagnosis so not sure of any effect on blood sugars. I recently had to start using high potency steroid ointment for a skin complaint. I was scared it would unbalance blood sugars and weight but luckily hasn’t. I hope you can find a solution lucylocket x
 
Jim Lahey said:
Anything that raises blood glucose concentration is likely to contribute to weight gain simply by the presence of a requisite increase in blood insulin.

I think @bulkbiker may have been trying to help you, rather than ‘pushing an agenda’, as it were. I’ve read some literature suggesting that many of these types of conditions may be linked to wheat proteins, so perhaps he was suggesting a temporary reduction in all carbs as a means of potential elimination of problem foods.
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Thank you for your perspective. @bulkbiker has known me on here for several years. He knows I have other medical conditions which affect my dietary choices, and consistently dismisses the dietary affect of the treatments for them on my daily life and my medical balancing act, only one of which is balancing carb intake. Hence my reply specifically to him. Had it been someone who does not know these things about me, I would have replied differently.
 
From a moderator perspective, I would ask that members respect each others’ diabetes management choices, and not bring arguments to the conversation which can derail threads.
 
From the perspective of a patient requiring daily steroid use in the form of nasal sprays and inhalers, also several times a year needing oral steroid meds I note that the only problems I seem to have is after the oral steroids. I see a vast increase in blood glucose levels with the oral meds and usually weight gain. Both take months to settle.

I would add that it is not just a simple case of recucing carbs further, as this occurs even with carb consumption less than 50g daily. My diabetes diagnosis predates the daily steroid sprays and inhalers by at least 4 years. They are for a rare blood condition that causes my body’s immune system to attack healthy tissues.
 
Pipp said:
From the perspective of a patient requiring daily steroid use in the form of nasal sprays and inhalers, also several times a year needing oral steroid meds I note that the only problems I seem to have is after the oral steroids. I see a vast increase in blood glucose levels with the oral meds and usually weight gain. Both take months to settle.

I would add that it is not just a simple case of recucing carbs further, as this occurs even with carb consumption less than 50g daily. My diabetes diagnosis predates the daily steroid sprays and inhalers by at least 4 years. They are for a rare blood condition that causes my body’s immune system to attack healthy tissues.
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Thank you, I will do some more monitoring to see if i can find a pattern.
 
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