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Steroid inhaler

Engineer88

Engineer88

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Wales
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Pump
Does anyone take a steroid inhaler regularly?

If so do you experience raised blood sugars?
 
Engineer88 said:
Ive increased everything by 20%, only realized yesterday what it was. What kind of increase do you do? I'm not convinced 20% is enough yet.
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I just increased mine for a couple of hours in the morning as use the spray once a day. The increase was 0.25u
 
Mine is twice a day and I went from 7.9 -11 without any food and having walked (about a mile). Pre inhaler I would expect a drop to hypo levels doing that :-/
 
I've always had a sneaky suspicion that steroids and steroid inhalers lead to Diabetes. It is well known that steroids raise blood glucose. Maybe I'm wrong, but it would be interesting to see how many people with Diabetes also use steroid inhalers.

Apologies for basic use of English language in my post, but just diagnosed with hypothyroidism which causes brain fog and other things that elude me at the moment. lol
 
Engineer88 said:
Mine is twice a day and I went from 7.9 -11 without any food and having walked (about a mile). Pre inhaler I would expect a drop to hypo levels doing that :-/
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There are different types of inhalers with different amounts of steroid in them, Mine is only a small amount as it's used for hay fever.
silverbirch said:
I've always had a sneaky suspicion that steroids and steroid inhalers lead to Diabetes. It is well known that steroids raise blood glucose. Maybe I'm wrong, but it would be interesting to see how many people with Diabetes also use steroid inhalers.
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It's well known fact that that high doses and long term use of steroids cause diabetes. Hence why it's called steroid induced diabetes :) Engineer88 has type 1 diabetes though which is autoimmune.
 
@carbsrock I thought steroids destroyed your immune system over time, which in turn sets up an autoimmune disease. My apologies if I have misunderstood.
 
I use a steroid inhaler twice a day (Seretide 250). I don't notice any peaks after taking it but when it's gets into cough and cold season and i get my bouts of chest infections and end up on prednisolone i literally have to double my basal rates on my pump for the duration of the course as they sky-rocket my BG's.
 
I also use Seretide 250 twice a day but have noticed no change in blood glucose.
 
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