Steroid incuced diabetes

[poppyplum]

I was told at Christmas i had steroid induced diabetes, it was picked up during one of my many critical hospital admissions for my brittle asthma. I was put on metformin and gliclazide. My BMI had ballooned to 38 and my face is round, swollen and puffy from the steroids.
I am trying unsuccessfully to come off large doses of prednisolone which really affects my blood sugars.
Before my pituitary failed 2 years ago i was slim bmi 22, healthy with no signs of diabetes or asthma.

the problems with the diabetes have overwhelmed me, i am type 2 but despite my being compliant it is not well controlled, 2 months ago i went onto HUMULIN I 60 units in morning, today i have seen the nurse at the hospital my HbA1c was 72 (9%) i eat a very healthy diet and it if just not fair, i now need 3 more injections a day of HUMULIN S , as well as blood glucose testing and my human growth hormone injections.
I cannot do much exercise apart from hydrotherapy as i have chronic pain due to fibromyalgia , and other hormone deficiencies.

i live alone and i am only 47 i feel like my life may as well be over, i have no time or stamina to do anything apart from my many medical appointments and keeping pace with an ever complicated medication regime. i also suffer from recurrent depressive disorder and life threatening endocrine problems. if i was not fat i may not have such bad asthma, or diabetes i feel bad that i am so fat, but what can i do,. i feel helpless and hopeless just now.
Every few months something else seems to stop working. I am back in hospital every few weeks when my prednisolone is reduced, i am waiting to see another specialist to try and break the cycle.
IF i do get off the prednisolone will i still have diabetes?
Thanks poppyplum

 

[hanadr]

Poppyplum,
you are still young and once you get your head round this, You still have a long life and much to contribute ahead of you.
You say you are compliant.[ with healthcare professionals?]
To me this is an alert. I'm a rebel. I tried being compliant and found myself on the usual route to increasing medication and climbing blood glucose levels. I decided to read everything Icould and eventually decided about 5 years after diagnosis to go low carb. [This may not be for you, but it WORKS for pretty much everybody!] I'm now fit, on minimal medication andbusier than I've ever been.
Among the things I do, the most physical is looking after small grandchildren. [I'm 66] and they are exhausting. That's my measure for physical fitness.
In any case a meter and good control will help put physical health right and all else should follow.
Hana