Arri London wrote:
>
> Goomba wrote:
>> Julia Altshuler wrote:
>>> Steve Pope wrote:
>>>> My own guess is that general obesity, HFCS in particular, and a large
>>>> volume of prescription drugs that can cause diabetes are behind it.
>>>
>>> Which prescription drugs cause diabetes?
>>>
>>>
>>> --Lia
>>>
>> Steroids raise the blood sugar, but with *most* folks it is just
>> temporary as they don't take them routinely. This isn't "diabetes" per
>> se, but in the hospital we'll often treat them with some insulin anyway
>> as evidence is that controlled blood sugars lessen infection and help
>> healing progress.
>
> Aha...that makes sense. While I was in hospital in 2007, I was being
> given insulin (in tiny doses). Never having had high blood sugar in my
> life (and still don't), assumed it was because of all the
> glucose-containg drips administered. But there may have been other
> medicines administered that raised the blood glucose too. There was
> never a suggestion that diabetes was in the picture.

Right after I had the surgery for the ruptured colon, they were giving
me insulin, too. My blood glucose levels were over 300 and that is scary
for a person who has never had any problems with blood glucose numbers.
They said that often the trauma of severe illness or difficult surgery
will raise blood glucose levels.

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Janet Wilder
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