Steroid induced hyperglycimia/diabetes? so confused, lots of questions about my sugar levels.

I can't see much today, my urine smelled of fruit and was cloudy and my sugar level is 94... this text is just black blur...

Called the ER to see if it's any concern, they didn't seem worried

10 mg prednisone today, 2 egg whites, a banana and a light yoplait cup.

Post Edited (EPhantom) : 8/20/2014 6:14:03 AM (GMT-6)

My mind is going a bit insane trying to figure out what's going on... one of the guys I play games with is a diabetic and he was saying it could be ketones in my blood...

Thinking about it after a while this could actually be a good thing... last night my levels were 137. I took two units of regular, ate about 30 carbs with a turkey burger (just the patty)... If my insulin resistance is dropping and my pancreas is producing/over producing insulin (my brother and I have had hypo events before), then my glucose levels could have sank while I slept... my body not having energy could have made my pancreas produce ketones to get energy from fat, ketones make my urine sweet smelling and cloudy. low blood sugar making my vision blurry.

I can see like I could yesterday again, so let's just hope that this speculation is somewhere on track.

Just realized that my blood sugar is the lowest it's been since I got out... 94... closest it's been to that has been 97, that two days ago before I went to bed.



Looking more online it's most likely the case that I ran out of energy and my body started to take from my fat reserves... wondering what my body did with all the energy from last night. slept for about 10 hours... I can only guess that there was too much insulin in my system. Hoping it's a sign my pancreas is working and my insulin resistance is dropping.


Its been three hours, urine came very light, not cloudy, not smelling of fruit.

Post Edited (EPhantom) : 8/20/2014 7:52:36 AM (GMT-6)

That's probably what's going on then. My body was running high for quite a while when i was on 30mg of prednisone.

Urine still doing good!

Meds taken today:
10 units lantis
0 units regular
carbs for breakfast about 45
blood glucose 3 and a half hours after breakfast 145

lantis time change 4 hours, unknown if it's significant, diabetic gamer friend says it shouldn't be significant, hoping he's right. We'll see in 4 hours.

Making a new post

SO HAPPY. The hospital set my scale to 131-150 mg/dl as a start for my regular insulin injection 4 hours after eating and half an hour before my next meal.

I noticed my diet was off what the dietician suggested, so I added an extra 45carb meal in replace of the 30 "before bed" meal that they suggested for a just in case your sugar goes low.

I just measured an hour, ONE HOUR, after eating a full banana (30 carbs) and more than a cup of cantaloupe (idk like... 15-25 carbs), and I"m at 137!

And on top of that I"m still on 10mg of predisone!

I will keep updating, and after a while will have to make a new post to sum up everything for anyone that has this issue and is worried.

I'm going to eat a celebration banana now =3 SO happy and so relieved!

8pm ate 45 carbs
9pm 30 carbs
11:30 45ish carbs expecting low blood sugar while I sleep

Morning

Urine smells sweet, vision not insanely blury
Blood sugar: 80 mg/dl

eating around 75 carbs, taking the 10 mg of predisone and calling the ER before I use the lantus.

Edit: ER's advisement is to not take lantus and keep measuring.

I'm expecting my sugar level to be elevated when I check in 4 hours because of the predisone, then normal though the rest of the day. we'll see how it goes.

Post Edited (EPhantom) : 8/21/2014 6:36:22 AM (GMT-6)

Ate about 30g of carbs half an hour ago, checked my blood glucose, 130 mg/dl. my blood glucose when I checked was exactly 130 mg/dl. No lantus was taken today, 10mg of prednisone was taken today. Looks like I"m in the clear. I'll still be monitoring my blood sugar for a while and will try to remember to update here for anyone else going through this.

Ate a banana at my measurement time, so this is what's going on.

130 blood glucose. ate 30 carbs (kiwi and tortilla shell)
30 minutes pass
130 blood glucose. ate 30 carbs (banana)
30 minutes pass
blood glucose 146
30 minutes pass
blood glucose 127

Post Edited (EPhantom) : 8/21/2014 7:07:42 PM (GMT-6)

Tomorrow is my last day, 10 mg. Idk why but there is no taper to 5mg.

Yeah, I'm probably going to try to give my pancreas a break for like a week and not worry too much about measuring. Maybe just when something feels off. I'll just go back to the way I was eating before all this, minus the sugary sweets and add in a little fruit. Then later I"ll see about snacks and whatever with a meter and lots of numbers.

Something I realized because of this is that my meals before this have been... pancreas friendly. My meals before didn't have this many carbs, the only ones that did were when I would decide to eat a box of mac-n-cheese or have spaghetti or something like that. The meal plan that the dietician gave me has so many carbs and just so much there that I've often found it will take me around half an hour to eat a meal.

Before this I'd have smaller meals but have snacks and soda between... even then when I'm consuming sugar I'd go hypo... maybe I just never really ate that much and went hypo because of it... and the days I drank lots of soda and what not were the days I just kept my sugar levels up... maybe, idk

I'd go hypo on rare occasion, like once when I went to the movies and had some soda and candy... pancreas expected more and didn't get it, so I just waited till I got to my gf's place and had an apple and some deli meat to compensate

last night I remember measuring myself twice and my meter reading 160 then 190... decided to just go to bed. An hour later I realized I forgot to take my meds, got up and took them with a glass of milk. Just woke up and my blood sugar is at 87. Did not take lantus yesterday, did not take any regular last night either.

Still off the insulin, ate about 50 carbs for lunch and felt light headed so I took a nap. Woke up and realized I was about to be late for a doctors appointment D= So I started walking, got picked up by my roommate and made the appointment. I brought a granola bar with me just in case I went low... I measured myself while in the office and was down to 80 so I ate the granola bar... not going to worry about post breakfast meals from now on.

Today the only time my eyes haven't seemed back to normal have been around an hour after I've eaten, so it appears they didn't get any/much long term damage from this ordeal.

I'm going to keep the snacking carbs low as I have been, and keep to the dietitian schedule for a week or two. But I think I"m going to just measure when I wake up and after breakfast, as those are going to be the most stressful times for my system. This way I"ll save on strips and be able to do a better blood glucose test later... I"m planning on an every 15 min for three to four hours measurement for a high carb meal, so something a little more than breakfast has. Then after that something closer to the big 75g glucose tolerance test when I feel my system is clear of all the prednisone and can handle it. Then I can make a little graph of what's going on inside me.

I've been planning on how to type up a nice... report, of all my symptoms and everything so that next time someone's worried like me they can stumble on it in your forums. I haven't closed my browser just to make sure that I have a reminder to think about it and keep posting. The main problem that I had when trying to find evidence that things would go back to normal were patients that have had this happen to them that have asked about it. None of them ever reported back to say everything was fine or that they got full blown diabetes. They just... vanished. Gotta make sure I don't follow the trend. VIVA LA REVOLUTION

Yeah :)

I kinda burned out my financial aid... i think I have one year left that I could use and I need two and a little more. but I"m going to talk with the disabilities department and see what they can do. I had issues trying to get my thyroid meds and what not. Docs were surprised I could get myself out of bed, let alone do well every other semester. But they didn't want to help me with it, they're two-three hours away and told me to find someone local. Not having insurance I couldn't afford a doc, so I went to the free clinic. They denied me help for my thyroid because I have my liver condition and told me to go get treatment at the hospital that's treating my liver, so my thyroid remained uncontrolled while I was at school.

Searching for a job will have to wait a little bit too, lost 15 pounds in two months because of the prednisone, have to regrow all that muscle... got about a pound of it back already though. :)

I think you need to pay more attention to what you're eating.