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<blockquote data-quote="Kailee56" data-source="post: 2149271" data-attributes="member: 437516"><p>As an ICU nurse, part of our protocol, when a pt is placed on steroids, is to monitor their glucose and give insulin as if they were diabetic. Basically, what you experienced. Since we usually just give the steroids for a week or so, the glucose levels return to what ever that persons baseline is, a few days after steroids have been tapered off. The confounded, with you, is the duration of your treatment. I don’t know what will happen, since sustained, elevated glucose levels can damage beta cells. If you do not have a hidden autoimmune component, your beta cells should recover and return to a non-diabetic level of glucose control, but I don’t think anyone can give any guarantees about this. Just be careful and monitor closely as you taper your steroids off. You do not want to be giving yourself insulin if/when you no longer need it</p><p></p><p> I have also, in the past few months, received steroid injections for an arm injury. Monitoring my glucose response was an experience. I could actually see my glucose decrease when I used an ice pack (decreased release and circulation of the injected steroids), spike when I did arm exercises, and stay way higher than usual for days. They were actually scary high for me, no matter what I did. I felt my readings should be used in a study showing the effects, literally, of steroids on blood glucose. Really fascinating to see on my monitor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kailee56, post: 2149271, member: 437516"] As an ICU nurse, part of our protocol, when a pt is placed on steroids, is to monitor their glucose and give insulin as if they were diabetic. Basically, what you experienced. Since we usually just give the steroids for a week or so, the glucose levels return to what ever that persons baseline is, a few days after steroids have been tapered off. The confounded, with you, is the duration of your treatment. I don’t know what will happen, since sustained, elevated glucose levels can damage beta cells. If you do not have a hidden autoimmune component, your beta cells should recover and return to a non-diabetic level of glucose control, but I don’t think anyone can give any guarantees about this. Just be careful and monitor closely as you taper your steroids off. You do not want to be giving yourself insulin if/when you no longer need it I have also, in the past few months, received steroid injections for an arm injury. Monitoring my glucose response was an experience. I could actually see my glucose decrease when I used an ice pack (decreased release and circulation of the injected steroids), spike when I did arm exercises, and stay way higher than usual for days. They were actually scary high for me, no matter what I did. I felt my readings should be used in a study showing the effects, literally, of steroids on blood glucose. Really fascinating to see on my monitor. [/QUOTE]
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