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<blockquote data-quote="Pipp" data-source="post: 1843697" data-attributes="member: 100904"><p>My first encounter with steroid meds was as a teenager. I had injections for sport injury. Some 10 years later, I had gestational diabetes in first pregnancy. (I only discovered the gestational diabetes many years later when sifting through my medical records, as I had been so ill at the time, and nobody at the hospital had told me of the diagnosis). I have needed oral steroid meds at intervals in the meantime, and was diagnosed T2 when I was 50. Whether this was due to steroids, genetics, diet, stress, or something else or a combination of factors is uncertain.</p><p>I do still need oral steroids a few times a year, depending on how my breathing is. I always have found they increase my blood glucose levels for around a month or so. More recently this has changed. My most recent prescription in April / May raised boold glucose to much higher levels than before, and are only just starting to reduce. This pushed my HbA1c from a consistent 38 - 40 for the last few years to a recent 52. I am working on it to reduce back to more acceptable level. The steroids also caused a weight gain of around 4-5 kg.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pipp, post: 1843697, member: 100904"] My first encounter with steroid meds was as a teenager. I had injections for sport injury. Some 10 years later, I had gestational diabetes in first pregnancy. (I only discovered the gestational diabetes many years later when sifting through my medical records, as I had been so ill at the time, and nobody at the hospital had told me of the diagnosis). I have needed oral steroid meds at intervals in the meantime, and was diagnosed T2 when I was 50. Whether this was due to steroids, genetics, diet, stress, or something else or a combination of factors is uncertain. I do still need oral steroids a few times a year, depending on how my breathing is. I always have found they increase my blood glucose levels for around a month or so. More recently this has changed. My most recent prescription in April / May raised boold glucose to much higher levels than before, and are only just starting to reduce. This pushed my HbA1c from a consistent 38 - 40 for the last few years to a recent 52. I am working on it to reduce back to more acceptable level. The steroids also caused a weight gain of around 4-5 kg. [/QUOTE]
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