DM 1 and treatment with corticosteroids

In a previous low back pain and in another similar current injury, the treatment is injection of corticosteroids... the glucose is always through the roof even when tripling the usual doses of insulin and supplementing between meals... has anyone found something effective?...

I am on corticosteroids in a vein on Fridays and in pills on Saturdays and Sundays.The effects last until Wednesday.48 hours since the last shot.

The endocrine told me to double basal, and triple rapid.

The best value I have achieved is 160 but it does not go over 300.

It's trial and error.

You have less left, Ruthbia.

Good luck, you will be fine for Christmas.

Thanks @Regina, this chemo works much better for me, without side effects.

Fatal glucose, yes.

On January 30th I will have my last cycle.Little by little.

I haven't tried changing the basal...but your experience helps me...thank you.

Good morning

From this forum and with these few words I want to send all my encouragement to @Ruthbia in her fight, not only against this disease of ours, but also the one she personally fights daily against that other very aggressive one that she comments on.And of course, thank you for your continued contributions to this Forum.

Greetings.

Thank you very much @Sorprendido, your words have moved me.

I have to say that the fight against cancer is hard, but it can be cured, diabetes is more exhausting and it is for life...for now.

Hopefully there will soon be an artificial pancreas or the generation of beta cells and insulin in the arms, stomach, wherever and we will be able to have a more normal life.

Diabetes conditions each of us in a different way, but at least I have a full life and I am alive.

A hug for everyone.

Wow @Ruthbia a lot of strength and I join in that sending of energy and encouragement from Surprised 🙌🏼

Ruthbia said:
@Ruthbia said:

Thank you so much@SurprisedYour words have moved me.

I have to say that the fight against cancer is hard, but it can be cured, diabetes is more exhausting and it is for life...for now.

Hopefully there will soon be an artificial pancreas or the generation of beta cells and insulin in the arms, stomach, wherever and we will be able to have a more normal life.

Diabetes conditions each of us in a different way, but at least I have a full life and I am alive.

A hug for everyone.

Good luck Ruthbia, although the strength you have is admirable, you will get through this because you are very brave and optimistic.My father is admitted with acute leukemia and it is being very hard, obviously he is 80 years old and it is not comparable but it is hard and even more so in an elderly person with a lot of pathology as is the case, and with a bad prognosis.My blood glucose levels are crazy, high that I haven't had in a long time, I've been like this for more than a month and it's very difficult to lower it and I have much more insulin, basal and rapid, what emotions are...

The thing is that in the analysis I got a glycation of 7.6 (I haven't had it this high in years), and the estimate in the free test is 5.9.Too much difference, right???

@meginer I'm so sorry about your father!

I hope he has the best time possible and at those ages, cancer progresses more slowly.I hope you have it with you for many more years.

I don't consider myself brave, it is what it is, the same as with diabetes.Either you accept it and move forward, or you get depressed, cry, kick, but that doesn't change the situation;you have to take care of yourself.In the case of cancer you have to have surgery, and go through a very long treatment to recover.In addition to the discomfort of surgery.

High blood sugar is normal, between worries and menopause, it is almost impossible to be well.The pump will be fine, I'll keep putting it off until after the radiology.At the moment everything is delayed a little, I caught a virus and they canceled my chemo to boost my defenses.

I have increased the basal and the rapids a lot, a lot.Twice as basal and triple as fast, with that it did not go over 300, but it did not go below 180. My glucose is around 7.3 or so;The endocrinologist told me that it is temporary and will have no consequences.The temporary thing is more than a year.

I am getting neuropathies despite the magnesium and B12.And I think I'll keep them.They are annoying and not very strong, I have no idea if they get worse over time or if they will get worse, I still have 10 sessions left.

Good luck, we will be fine.

@Ruthbia said:

@meginerI'm so sorry about your father!

I hope he has the best time possible and at those ages, cancer progresses more slowly.I hope you have it with you for many more years.

I don't consider myself brave, it is what it is, the same as with diabetes.Either you accept it and move forward, or you get depressed, cry, kick, but that doesn't change the situation;you have to take care of yourself.In the case of cancer you have to have surgery, and go through a very long treatment to recover.In addition to the discomfort of surgery.

High blood sugar is normal, between worries and menopause, it is almost impossible to be well.The pump will be fine, I'll keep putting it off until after the radiology.At the moment everything is delayed a little, I caught a virus and they canceled my chemo to boost my defenses.

I have increased the basal and the rapids a lot, a lot.Twice as basal and triple as fast, with that it did not go over 300, but it did not go below 180. My glucose is around 7.3 or so;The endocrinologist told me that it is temporary and will have no consequences.The temporary thing is more than a year.

I am getting neuropathies despite the magnesium and B12.And I think I'll keep them.They are annoying and not very strong, I have no idea if they get worse over time or if they will get worse, I still have 10 sessions left.

Good luck, we will be fine.

My father's situation is not chronic, unfortunately.It is acute and they give you months to live, at most a year and a half as long as everything goes well.We already know that you never know but a priori that's how it is.So little by little.

Well, notice that if you have 7.3 with those peaks and I have 7.6..., I don't understand it.Why does the sensor estimate 5.9?

Meginer, I would get another glycosylated one, even if it were from a pharmacy or from the hospital machine.

It seems like a big difference to me with the sensor.It usually gives a difference of half a point at most...

Concerns rise, but such a difference is rare.

Regina said:
@Regina said:

Meginer, I would get another glycosylated one, even if it were from a pharmacy or from the hospital machine.

It seems like a big difference to me with the sensor.It usually gives a difference of half a point at most...

Concerns rise, but such a difference is rare.

@meginer the glucose strips measure a little more than in blood tests, about 0.2-0.4 tenths more.

For the sensor to estimate you so badly, it is because the measurements it has been taking in the last 3 months are lower than the real ones.

I take a lot of capillaries, I don't trust anything.

Ruthbia said:
@Ruthbia said:

@meginerThe glucose strip measures a little more than in blood tests, about 0.2-0.4 tenths more.

For the sensor to estimate you so badly, it is because the measurements it has been taking in the last 3 months are lower than the real ones.

I take a lot of capillaries, I don't trust anything.