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<blockquote data-quote="Pattidevans" data-source="post: 1069" data-attributes="member: 2062"><p><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Fugs</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm in East Anglia and have no idea if they will prescribe but I'll ask anyway.</p><p>Oh and I forgot I also have to take aldreonic(sp) acid 70mg once a week </p><p></p><p>>^..^<</p><p></p><p><hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></p><p></p><p>Fugs</p><p></p><p>I was thinking, the only other diabetic I know of who was on similar dosages of insulin was also on very high doses of steroids for (apparently life-threatening) asthma. I notice you're on Prednisolone which is a cortico-steroid, but have no idea if 5mg is a high dose. I tried googling some of your other meds that I didn't recognise but met with no success, do you know if any of them are steroids as well?</p><p></p><p>Might be worth having a long chat with your Dr as to whether the drugs you are on are pushing up your BGs and rendering the metformin and Insulin inadequate?</p><p></p><p>Patti</p><p>On Levemir/Novorapid. Last hba1c 5.3</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pattidevans, post: 1069, member: 2062"] <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Fugs</i> <br /> I'm in East Anglia and have no idea if they will prescribe but I'll ask anyway. Oh and I forgot I also have to take aldreonic(sp) acid 70mg once a week >^..^< <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> Fugs I was thinking, the only other diabetic I know of who was on similar dosages of insulin was also on very high doses of steroids for (apparently life-threatening) asthma. I notice you're on Prednisolone which is a cortico-steroid, but have no idea if 5mg is a high dose. I tried googling some of your other meds that I didn't recognise but met with no success, do you know if any of them are steroids as well? Might be worth having a long chat with your Dr as to whether the drugs you are on are pushing up your BGs and rendering the metformin and Insulin inadequate? Patti On Levemir/Novorapid. Last hba1c 5.3 [/QUOTE]
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