RE: bloodsugar

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, several years ago, when my cholesterol was first up, my doc encouraged me to try dietary measures. I worked pretty hard on it & got the values down a lot, but after a year & still not normal (my HDL, the bad cholesterol, was still up quite a bit), I agreed to Lipitor. It works great, when I take it! I usually take it from Jan. to July or August, whenever I hit the donut hole in my drug coverage. Then I quit & try to be stricter with my diet (the Lipitor is over $100 a month). Then in January I check my labs again before restarting it.

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To: Neurosarcoidosis From: grannylunatic@...Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:36:51 -0700Subject: Re: bloodsugar

My fasting blood sugar in the hospital was 135 but nobody said anything about a diet. My cholesterol was slightly high and they put me on Zocor. I'd prefer to try to control my cholesterol with diet but nobody mentioned it to me.Join our Sock Challenge for Orphans in Kazakhstan http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/Mittens_ for_Akkol/ grannylunatic@...

Subject: (unknown)To: neurosarcoidosis Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 5:19 PM

Hi all,

I got news yesterday that I was diabetic, high blood pressure and high cholestorol. What a bummer. I have gain quite a bit of weight over the last year due to prednisone and for some reason it just isn't going anywhere this time.

I went to a new physician for my physical and she just makes me feel so bad. She tends to think that the prednisone had nothing to do with all of my problems. My sarcoid doctor told me before he started me on the methylprednisone that one of his patients got diabetes from the prednisone a few years ago. My mom who is a nurse also told me that diabetes was possoble from Prednisone. I haven't told her yet trying to find a way to tell her that I have been diagnosed. I am heading to a class soon to get more info on how to manage it and hopefully with the right diet I can keep it under control.

I have been check my levels today and this morning before I ate my numbers where 160 after eating 177 and then I went and exercised and afterwards my number was 98. I am going to learn all I can and try to change what needs to be changed. This is really hard to deal with on top of the sarcoids and before I was diagnosed with Sarcoids I was 130 lbs. I haven't seen that in years but now not really trying to get there but to a more healthly number.

So I am trying to take this all in so I can deal with it.

Greg, I didn't even now I was pre-diabetic but I have been on and off the prednisone for 6 years. I keep my eyes checked and trying to control blood pressure as it has been on the rise since last year. I guess that all comes from the prednisone and the weight gain.

Anyway gang, say a prayer for me that I will be able to adapt or control whatever I have to deal with. Love hearing from you guys and keep exercising if only for a few minutes of the day.

Shauna in Atl.

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I forgot to answer about the blood sugar. One value isn't necessarily diagnostic. The problem with a lot of docs is that they'll do another fasting, a 3 hour GTT, or a 2 hour post-prandial (after eating), and those might be okay. With adult-onset diabetes, often the fasting is the last one to be elevated. Also, many times the blood sugars stay pretty good, while the insulin level is high. This is called insulin-resistance, and there is an epidemic of it in this country's children. What happens is that the pancreas works overtime to keep the blood sugars normal, causing elevated insulin levels, but eventually the pancreas burns out, creating diabetes. While I was on Pred & for a couple of years after, I had sugar levels all over the place, some elevated, some not, but my nurse-practitioner finally checked my insulin level & it was high. That's when I started my modified South Beach diet. Within 3 months, my insulin level was normal, I was losing weight at a slow but steady pace & my sugars have been normal since. I have no doubt that if I revert back to a high-carb diet, I will become a full-fledged diabetic.

So the point of all this is that you need at least a couple of more blood sugars, along with a fasting serum insulin level. Can you borrow a glucometer from anyone, so that you can check your sugars a few times? If so, I'd do a couple of fastings (12 hours, water only!) and a couple of 2-hour post-prandials (2 hours after you start eating; nice, balanced meal).

Ramblin' RoseModerator A merry heart is good medicine. Proverbs 17:22

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."

~ Washington Carver

To: Neurosarcoidosis From: grannylunatic@...Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:36:51 -0700Subject: Re: bloodsugar

My fasting blood sugar in the hospital was 135 but nobody said anything about a diet. My cholesterol was slightly high and they put me on Zocor. I'd prefer to try to control my cholesterol with diet but nobody mentioned it to me.Join our Sock Challenge for Orphans in Kazakhstan http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/Mittens_ for_Akkol/ grannylunatic@...

Subject: (unknown)To: neurosarcoidosis Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 5:19 PM

Hi all,

I got news yesterday that I was diabetic, high blood pressure and high cholestorol. What a bummer. I have gain quite a bit of weight over the last year due to prednisone and for some reason it just isn't going anywhere this time.

I went to a new physician for my physical and she just makes me feel so bad. She tends to think that the prednisone had nothing to do with all of my problems. My sarcoid doctor told me before he started me on the methylprednisone that one of his patients got diabetes from the prednisone a few years ago. My mom who is a nurse also told me that diabetes was possoble from Prednisone. I haven't told her yet trying to find a way to tell her that I have been diagnosed. I am heading to a class soon to get more info on how to manage it and hopefully with the right diet I can keep it under control.

I have been check my levels today and this morning before I ate my numbers where 160 after eating 177 and then I went and exercised and afterwards my number was 98. I am going to learn all I can and try to change what needs to be changed. This is really hard to deal with on top of the sarcoids and before I was diagnosed with Sarcoids I was 130 lbs. I haven't seen that in years but now not really trying to get there but to a more healthly number.

So I am trying to take this all in so I can deal with it.

Greg, I didn't even now I was pre-diabetic but I have been on and off the prednisone for 6 years. I keep my eyes checked and trying to control blood pressure as it has been on the rise since last year. I guess that all comes from the prednisone and the weight gain.

Anyway gang, say a prayer for me that I will be able to adapt or control whatever I have to deal with. Love hearing from you guys and keep exercising if only for a few minutes of the day.

Shauna in Atl.

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