Diabetic and Prenisone

[Lafontainepam1]

Type 2 diabetic and prednisone! Best time to take prednisone ? I think my sugar goes up shortly after taking my Prenisone!

[Koalajane]

I take my prednisolone at 8 a.m. and find my sugars go up between 12 and 4p.m. I am not in any medication so I try to eat low carb to keep the sugars down

[SnazzyD]

Yes, Pred causes sugar spikes such that normal healthy eating is usually insufficient to control blood sugars. In order to not add to the problem, a super low carbohydrate diet is needed. A number of people have reversed their Pred induced diabetes or with established diabetes kept reasonable HbA1c readings by doing this. Of course this needs to be discussed in the context of your diabetic control with the appropriate practitioner.

[Koalajane in reply to SnazzyD]

I have put my type 2 diabetes into remission by the LCHF diet and exercise

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Koalajane]

I think it is really important to identify what sends YOUR personal BS into orbit. Different people have different triggers.

[Koalajane in reply to PMRpro]

Yes indeed and for me that was why testing helped so much

[Lafontainepam1 in reply to PMRpro]

How about, ready to go crazy😫

[Lafontainepam1 in reply to SnazzyD]

Yes, I have been eliminating everything that has sugar in it and have been counting carbs now for at least 6-8 weeks. I go to therapy because I’m still recovering from a big back surgery a year ago. I also do my treadmill.

[SnazzyD in reply to Lafontainepam1]

I found I couldn’t have any potato, rice, pasta, maize, flours as well as sugar of course.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Some years ago we had a Type 1 diabetic on another forum whose BS shot up a regular time post dose and meals. He found that exercise shortly after eating was enough to modify the spikes. He did extensive checks, day and night to work it out!

[Koalajane in reply to PMRpro]

I too did loads of blood tests to discover when my sugars go up and discovered it was between midday and 4 p.m. they used to go into the teens bit now only go up to about 7 or 8 and by 5pm my reading are in the 5s

[Lafontainepam1 in reply to Koalajane]

Thank you, I have been doing a lot of poking my finger😎

[Lafontainepam1 in reply to Koalajane]

An hour after eating supper, 8:20 pm. I checked, it was only 115! I couldn’t believe it. I think because it had been over 12 hours after taking my Prednisone!

[Koalajane in reply to Lafontainepam1]

Did you check after 2 hours which is what is recommended

[Lafontainepam1 in reply to Koalajane]

Yes

[Koalajane in reply to Lafontainepam1]

My sugars go back to normal after 8 hours

[Lafontainepam1 in reply to PMRpro]

I’ve been doing that too, starting to drive me crazy!

[Lafontainepam1]

Thank you maybe I’ll try checking it later after supper!