Diabetes on top of everything else!!

So, it looks like I'll have another disease topic to post and I am so upset about it. I had a resection for colitis last Nov and got that behind me. I've been watching my BS b/c it was running in the pre diabetes range. I was on holiday and walked 5 miles a day week before last and for a week after my blood sugars were awesome. Plus, I was on antibiotics for a UTI and antibiotics often drop your BS. But,  last night, it was 199 right before bed. I am so upset about this. I have other diseases to deal with too. Thanks for listening to me vent!! Hope this is as good as the crohn's forum. Heaven knows I've been on others too-:)

Jeanne, have you been on Prednisone for any extended periods? We do have a lot of IBD-er's here, and for many of us it was Pred that triggered the diabetes.

Your diet and exercise are going to be crucial to managing blood glucose, as you probably know. Much as with IBD, you'll have to experiment to see what foods bother you the most. Some of us eat almost no carbs, others of us stick to those that don't spike our blood sugar so much. And you've already seen what effect exercise has. I can get up in the morning and have a fasting of 110, then go to the gym and work out, my glucose will go down to 89.

Welcome to our little group, sorry you need us though.

Metformin hasn't bothered me at all. I think it only gives you diarrhea if you overdo the carbs - then it doesn't let your body absorb them.

I know what you mean about everything flaring at once. My UC is under pretty good control, but when my arthritis pain goes up so does my blood sugar and my asthma kicks in too. I consider my life an ongoing medical adventure.

We really have a triple whammy, Jeanne. With colon disease, we can't just fill up on fresh veggies because that much fiber would surely kill me. So we do have to find a balance. I find my glucose will be 10-20 points higher just from using my Advair inhaler. Sometimes I just have to sit down and laugh at myself chasing my own tail!

I'm a retired nurse, so I do know what you're saying. Every time I get some new surprise from my immune system I wait too long to go to the dr. because I don't want to be one of "those" nurses who stubs her toe and thinks she has gout.

Jeanneac, I didn't know that antibiotics could make your blood sugar go low. I have heard that having an infection can cause you to have higher blood sugar readings than normal. Hope you can get everything straight and your numbers back on the road to normal.

Yes, when the body is under stress the blood sugar can rise.  (And that can be physical or emotional stress, illnesses, trauma, etc.).  In general antibiotics by themselves don't affect blood sugar but I read somewhere that there's a couple of antibiotics that might affect type 1s.  I didn't recognize the names of them.  They're not the common ones we normally see.

Sherrine, I'd stay away from the packaging, too. It's really high in insoluble fiber, so there we go again.

Sometimes I think we need a board for "my immune system is trying to kill me" disease.

I know I survived on a lot of soup , mashed potatoes and meat when my colitis was most active.Good luck to you!

I had some protein in my urine again today. The doc put me back on BP meds and my bp was just 132/82. I am worried the protein is from the AI disease and I am calling my rheumy to check on it.