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Chemotherapy effects on bg
My mother was controlling her Type II diabetes with diet for about a
year, when she started chemotherapy for cancer. They warned her that
the chemicals they were using would increase her bg levels, and they
did. It has been almost a year since the end of her chemotherapy, but
she has not been able to get her bg levels back down. She was on oral
medication for a quite a while, and just recently they started her on
low doses of injected insulin, which my mom says still haven't helped,
so they may have to increase dosage. Does anyone have any insight/experience in this? Is it possible that
eventually the aftereffects of chemo will eventually wear off enough
that my mom can get off insulin? I realize that there may be other
factors involved here not related to the chemo.
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-I'm not speaking from personal experience, but my wife is a Radiation
Therapist at a big cancer clinic in Toronto, an has treated a handfull of
diabetics. It's usually the steroids that bring the blood sugar up
(Prednisone, et al) and once they stop using this, the levels drop.
Whetever is happening is likely no longer related to the chemo, unless
she is still on some other steroidal drug.
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