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Suggest Treatment For High Blood Sugar Level Caused By Prednisolone

fasting blood sugar is 100 and after two hours of meal it is 250. When checked randomly at any other time it comes out 120.What to do?Am i a dibetic patient.All this happened after taking steroids prednisolone for a month @20 mg/ day due to eye problem,Steroid was discontinued 2 months ago.
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Dear sir i can understand your concern.
i am very sorry for your condition.
steroids and diabetes will never go together.
But in many conditions steroid act as life saving drugs.
in conditions like scleritis steroids are used to prevent eye damage.
In my clinic for most of this kind of patients i prefer them to be on "short course of insulin"until there eye problem settles and effects of steroid is withdrawn.
I suggest you to discuss with your treating doc on considering insulin for a short while.
Regards
Dr vamsi
Diabetologist
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Suggest Treatment For High Blood Sugar Level Caused By Prednisolone

Dear sir i can understand your concern. i am very sorry for your condition. steroids and diabetes will never go together. But in many conditions steroid act as life saving drugs. in conditions like scleritis steroids are used to prevent eye damage. In my clinic for most of this kind of patients i prefer them to be on short course of insulin until there eye problem settles and effects of steroid is withdrawn. I suggest you to discuss with your treating doc on considering insulin for a short while. Regards Dr vamsi Diabetologist