blood sugar up

[Bluemoon2023]

blood sugar up also weight is getting out of control not due to eating too much.or am I kidding myself.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

It isn't necessarily eating too much - it is eating carbs that is the main problem. Pred changes carb metabolism and also causes random spikes of blood sugar to be released from the body stores in liver and muscle. A load of insulin is produced in response to that - and the BS plunges, making you crave carbs to raise it again, causing a roller coaster of high and low BS, lots of insulin floating around and as soon as glucose appears the insulin squirrels it away to store it as fat stores in particular place - around the midriff and the face in particular.

Cutting carbs, especially processed carbs, added sugar and some fruit and root veg, will help reduce the risk of all that. You can't predict the random spikes and do anything about them but you can reduce the contribution made by dietary carbs.

[Bluemoon2023 in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks so much for your reply. So helpful

[piglette]

The sad thing is with steroids you actually need to reduce the calories that were fine before you took them. I became a diet bore when I got PMR and read up on everything to do with diet. I even got an app MyNetDiary which has a free version.

[papadapadoo]

Same happened to me last time on steroids, but this time I took berberine and no bloating or weight gain.

[proactive in reply to papadapadoo]

Curious, did berberine keep you blood sugar levels in a good range or were you testing your blood sugar while taking it?

[papadapadoo in reply to proactive]

Both my glucose and A1C remained as they were. I started prednisone at 20mg and berberine at the same time. No change in the 1 1/2 years. No moon face, no adipose belly.

[Bluemoon2023 in reply to papadapadoo]

What is berberine never heard of it

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Bluemoon2023]

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