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<blockquote data-quote="deb1960" data-source="post: 1714508" data-attributes="member: 245847"><p>I was diagnosed by a rheumatologist in 2002 with fibromyalgia after I suggested to my gp that I might have ME. I was diagnosed with polymyalgia about 4 years ago and was prescribed steroids to treat it. Initially I felt wonderful, I could walk pain free up hills and stairs etc but the massive downside was the effect of steroids on diabetes . I went from taking metformin and having excellent control to suddenly having to use insulin after all other drugs failed. I was having to inject 60 units of insulin twice a day and a once a week dose of dulaglutide and even then I still had relatively high bs . If I had been warned about steroids affecting diabetes in would never have taken them. You also have to wean yourself off them which isn't easy. I have been lchf since the middle of January and have lost 23lb and have reduced my insulin to 15 units twice a day and hope that before too long in will be able to stop using insulin completely . I wish that there was some way of making all gp's aware of the effect of steroids on insulin as I wouldn't wish the problems I had on anyone else.</p><p>I take amitriptyline at night to helwith sleep but even so my sleep is terrible. Some (most) mornings I get up have some breakfast and a shower and then feel so exhausted that I need to lie down and sleep. It's not just tiredness, it's an all encompassing fatigue and ache isn't it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deb1960, post: 1714508, member: 245847"] I was diagnosed by a rheumatologist in 2002 with fibromyalgia after I suggested to my gp that I might have ME. I was diagnosed with polymyalgia about 4 years ago and was prescribed steroids to treat it. Initially I felt wonderful, I could walk pain free up hills and stairs etc but the massive downside was the effect of steroids on diabetes . I went from taking metformin and having excellent control to suddenly having to use insulin after all other drugs failed. I was having to inject 60 units of insulin twice a day and a once a week dose of dulaglutide and even then I still had relatively high bs . If I had been warned about steroids affecting diabetes in would never have taken them. You also have to wean yourself off them which isn't easy. I have been lchf since the middle of January and have lost 23lb and have reduced my insulin to 15 units twice a day and hope that before too long in will be able to stop using insulin completely . I wish that there was some way of making all gp's aware of the effect of steroids on insulin as I wouldn't wish the problems I had on anyone else. I take amitriptyline at night to helwith sleep but even so my sleep is terrible. Some (most) mornings I get up have some breakfast and a shower and then feel so exhausted that I need to lie down and sleep. It's not just tiredness, it's an all encompassing fatigue and ache isn't it? [/QUOTE]
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