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Sudden Onset Diabetes

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BNabawi

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Type of diabetes
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That's not an acronym, though it might be! The patient is my wife, who had no sign of diabetes until..... She had a major stroke aged 59 in October 2006, and a couple of fits in hospital, nursing home, and later at home (where she has been, bed-fast and chair-fast since 2008). Presumably she had blood tests etc while in hospital for several months (2006-7). Then after one hospital stay of a few days, she suddenly was reported with very high blood sugar and we have been fighting it for years. I don't think she had gained much weight, and she had been in the same physical state for a couple of years before the diabetes onset.
My question is, is SOD common post-stroke? Could it be related to the stroke and fits medication or is it just one of those things? I'm not looking to blame, I'm hoping there is a useful intervention we can still make, especially if any of her medication might be suspect.
She is on (for the fits and blood pressure): levetiracetam, ramipril, amlodipine (at first, the fit preventive was phenytoin, then Baclofen, then epilim). She is on (for the diabetes) Metformin, glimepiride, and linagliptin. She stopped several meds in the first few years until made by ill-health to go back on them or an alternative.
I'm sorry if this question: what causes sudden onset of diabetes has been answered elsewhere in the forum. I haven't worked out how to search the many threads.

Thanks

Hugh
 
My husband had a stroke when he was 48 and the first thing the paramedics checked was blood glucose. As I understand it it's very common that high blood glucose causes strokes and heart attacks and dementia.
 
Hi. I would suspect some of the medications as many/most increase blood sugar and it may well be that your wife was already pre-diabetic without anyone knowing?
 
Andrew Colvin said:
amlodipine! A quick google give this among many other links http://www.livestrong.com/article/426620-blood-glucose-amlodipine/

You would need to follow some of the references in the posts to see if it could be a contributing factor. However, you could never prove it so why worry.
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Absolutely agree that identifying a possible reason won't solve it. I was just looking for other examples of diabetes following stroke, because most references are about stroke following diabetes (as in Totto's post). There had been no suggestion of pre-diabetes, but maybe the hospital hadn't been testing for slow response to sugar? Personally, I think my wife put on a bit of "hidden" fat and was comatose/immobile for months, and so in due course......

I won't worry about it. Thanks for the amlodipine thread. I'll look back and see if amlodipine was being prescribed before the diabetes appeared.

Hugh
 
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