Increases in blood sugar with steroids, is thought to be due to the loss of chromium that they cause:
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Diabet Med. 1999 Feb;16(2):164-7.Click here to read Links
Reversal of corticosteroid-induced diabetes mellitus with supplemental chromium.
Ravina A, Slezak L, Mirsky N, Bryden NA, Anderson RA.
Department of Diabetes, The Linn Clinic, Oranim University of Haifa, Israel.
AIMS: To determine if the stress of corticosteroid treatment increases chromium (Cr) losses and if corticosteroid-induced diabetes (steroid diabetes) can be reversed by supplemental chromium. METHODS: The effects of corticosteroid treatment on chromium losses of 13 patients 2 days prior to steroid administration and the first 3 days following treatment were determined. Since steroid-induced diabetes was associated with increased chromium losses and insufficient dietary chromium is associated with glucose intolerance and diabetes, we treated three patients with steroid-induced diabetes with 600 microg per day of chromium as chromium picolinate. RESULTS: Urinary chromium losses following corticosteroid treatment increased from 155+/-28 ng/d before corticosteroid treatment to 244+/-33 ng/d in the first 3 days following treatment. Chromium supplementation of patients with steroid-induced diabetes resulted in decreases in fasting blood glucose values from greater than 13.9 mmol/l (250 mg/dl) to less than 8.3 mmol/l (150 mg/dl). Hypoglycaemic drugs were also reduced 50% in all patients when given supplemental chromium. CONCLUSIONS: These data demonstrate that corticosteroid treatment increases chromium losses and that steroid-induced diabetes can be reversed by chromium supplementation. Follow-up, double-blind studies are needed to confirm these observations.
PMID: 10229312 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Also, typically the drugs used would be metformin or TZDs which reduce the glucose production by the liver (which is what the steroids increase).
You can print this out and take it to your doctor. But he/she should know this already. Eat protein/veggies etc, and go light on the carbs and that may help too.
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