What are the chances of a misdiagnoses of diabetes?
Reason for question is this: I am no longer on any meds of any kind for diabetes. I eat what I want, when ever I want. My fasting blood sugar stays around 101 and my readings before meals normally range from 75 to 96, and my 2 hour after meal reading are under 115 .
Now I have been taking high doses of steroids for 8 years. My dosage would vary from 40mg to 120mg daily.
End of March 09, I was diagnosed with diabetes type 2. My blood sugar was 1400 and my A1C was 13. They of course put me on insulin, glyburide, and medformin. And more importantly they started slowly pulling me off the steroids. As I came off the steroids my sugars dropped and stabilized. They did a second A1C in May (only 2 months after the first) and it came back 6.8 (which is still high) but my thrid A1C done in June came back 4.7, which is normal.
Like I said I eat what I want, I do not watch my diet at all, and my sugars are staying stable, and yes I test everyday 4 times. So could the steroids been the cause of the problem to start with? What are the chances of that? And yes, I plan on asking my doctor when I go back in October. Just wanted others thoughts.
Steroid induced diabetes is kind of like gestational diabetes.. it can reverse suddenly and totally.
admin on November 5th 2009 in Diabetes Diet Meal Plan
SuperVibrationalEscrow responded on 05 Nov 2009 at 5:44 am #
Steroid induced diabetes is kind of like gestational diabetes.. it can reverse suddenly and totally.
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mamajackblackie responded on 05 Nov 2009 at 6:16 am #
It surely seems to me that the steroids must have been the problem. though you defiantly had diabetes when diagnosed. I have known of all signs of type 2 diabetes going away with wt loss also.
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ricky85296 responded on 05 Nov 2009 at 6:46 am #
Hi,
I can only wonder why it was so important to have you on steroids for all those years.
Yes it seems like the steroids caused the problems with the high sugar levels. I have not heard of a reading over 1,200, you must be trying to set a record!
Chances are that the steroids have prevented the insulin from working effectively, or else caused problems with the pancreas not realizing the sugar levels where elevated, or perhaps slowed the response of the pancreas.
I hope that you are OK without the steroids. I am glad to hear that you don’t need them anymore.
It might be that you where to acidic while taking the steroids too. This can cause many problems, including weight gain, as the body tries to store excess acids it can not dispose of in other ways.
Dr. Young writes in his book that being to acidic can make his patients insulin work less effectively. The PH Miracle for Diabetes.
Another book suggests many causes for diabetes, including not eating a traditional diet. Dr. Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes.
I suggest that you continue to test your blood sugar levels if you change your lifestyle, for instance become pregnant or start to take a medication that includes steroids again.
Good Luck!
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