Type 2 Diabetes post transplant.

[h0b0]

Hi Everyone.

Latest update on Terry. Now over 12 months after the transplant he has been diagnosed with Diabetes. Possibly caused by steroids but not definite. Just wondered if anyone else here has had the same problem. He was doing so well that this has been a huge knockback...but hey-ho.....another obstacle to get over ! We're all toughies on here & won't be beaten !xx

[AyrshireK]

I think this is a fairly common happening h0b0 after transplant. You guys have battled worse than this and hopefully once you get it under control Terry can go on enjoying life to the full.

My bro has steroid induced Type 2 Diabetes (having been treated for years for auto-immune condition) he takes metaformin and watches what he eats but does ok with it and lives life as normal. [Additional clinics, blood tests, eye tests etc.]

Best wishes to you both, Katie x

[h0b0 in reply to AyrshireK]

Once again Katie, many thanks.xx

[chugalong]

Hi, I am diabetic post transplant and they had hoped things would improve when steroids were stopped a long time ago but nothing has changed there. I am 17 months post transplant and inject medication, but all is as normal as possible in everyday life

[h0b0 in reply to chugalong]

Thank you . Terry stopped steroids quite early but was given them again when he had to stop Mycophenalate due to complications.

[Hidden]

Hello, I have only just come across your thread. Did you manage to make sense of the answers to your question? Back in November 2017, I had been emailing Dr. Patricia Lalor, who is a Senior Lecturer, for Liver Research and NIHR Biomedical Research Unit Institute of Biomedical Research at the Medical School at University of Birmingham.

Back then I was asking her about this very subject. She replied by saying that some patients with liver disease (i.e. Before transplant) develop a diabetic condition in response to the liver injury. This can mean that the liver injury compromises the livers ability to store and release sugars, and may be insulin resistant. In cases of alcohol related disease, you can also get an alcohol-induced damage to the pancreas and thus this will also alter your ability to handle sugars.

She went on to add that In a post-transplant patient, the medications used to prevent rejection can alter the way hepatocytes in the liver handle sugars and drive overproduction and release of glucose into the blood. Also, patients with diabetic risks before transplant are more likely to experience it after transplant.

I realise that this thread is over two years late, but at least we got there. Hope this helps.

Richard

[h0b0 in reply to Hidden]

many thanks.xx