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Originally Posted by allen L
Im getting answers all over the place, so I figure let me ask here where people are on this drug and have experience with it.
I was put on cellcept, reluctant as Ive been, I agreed and went on last month.
3 weeks later, I wasnt feeling well, urinated all night long, sure enough, I was diagnosed with diabetes.
But this isnt my question, my own stupidity caused the diabetes.
But from anyones experience, does the cellcept raise the sugar levels in blood?
Im very frustrated right now. My vision went all blurred and today my eye doctor explained to me once the diabetes is under control(and Ive been dieting and decided to grow up and eat like an adult), it will take up to a month to get my vision back. Im extremely agitated. Unhappy.
everything I read on cellcept indicates it does raise blood sugar in 30 % of patients on it........is this all nonsense?
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No, it's not nonsense - what IS nonsense is doctors thinking that being fat or having diabetes has anything to do with a "healthy" diet.
Diabetes (and, I'm becoming more and more convinced each day, obesity) is an AUTO-IMMUNE disease. If you are on medication that is suppressing your immune system and you develop diabetes almost immediately afterward (like I did on steroids), it isn't because everything you had been doing for years before all of a sudden "caught up with you", it's because your immune system was suddenly (and significantly) suppressed more than it had been before.
While doctors may be scientists, most of them don't think like ENGINEERS (who analyze data and patterns).
My family - on both sides, mind you - has NO history of diabetes. NONE. I'm significantly overweight, 50 years old, eat all of the "wrong" foods, and have NEVER had high blood sugar (always drove my skinny, fit, pre-diabetic husband CRAZY!). A month after I started on Prednisone, the blood sugar shot up to pre-diabetic levels.
You aren't imagining things - an underactive immune system WILL make you more predisposed to developing Diabetes. However, you might want to do more research before you start following the "recommendations" of the ADA - most people find that their diabetes gets WORST on the ADA's recommended diet (which is high in grains and low in fat), rather than better.
A high-fat, high protein, low-carb diet will actually do more to help diabetes than anything else. And stay away from artificial sweeteners of ANY kind; there is a large, well-documented study out there (from April, 2009, using data gathered from the MESA study) that shows a significant correlation between artificial sweetener use and the risk of developing Type II Diabetes.