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Antibiotics & Sugar Levels

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Shaz White

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Hi Does anyone know if antibiotics can cause your Blood Sugar Levels to go up, I had an op on Monday and have since been sent home with 2 sorts of antibiotics I haven't got an infection these are purely for post op preventative measures, but my levels are sky high and I am taking extra units! Just wondered if anybody has any info on this as I haven't been in this situation before, Thanks
 
Not sure, whenever I have had antibiotics it is because I have had an infection of some kind
 
Yes, indeed they do! As do my painkillers and many other medications. Any infection you might have can also raise blood sugar levels. I'd finish the course of pills though, and look on the raised levels as a temporary inconvenience since that's probably better then getting really sick from an infection. Hope things level out again soon.
 
I'm permanently on antibiotics ie four a day every day and they don't affect my sugars. It might be the stress on your body from the surgery? I hope that things settle down soon for you
 
Steroids are probably the worst things for raising your BG's which is why Doctors don't like to prescribe them to diabetics unless they are really needed. As for antibiotics I've never personally noticed any marked increase in my BG's while taking them.
 
An operation is traumatic and it's the trauma your BG is fighting, not the ABs actually!
 
If I have to take antibiotics for anything longer than 2/3 weeks my blood sugars start to soar. I know it's not an infection that's causing it because they've been prescribed to me for acne. Within 2/3 days of stopping them my blood sugars stabilise again. (Hasn't cured the acne though😡)
 
Thanks for all the info

Thank you for all the info guys, I am pretty convinced it is the antibiotics now as they are creeping so high its got to be, anyway only got 3 more of them so it will be very interesting to hopefully see them come right down again, just had my best HbA1c level as well at 7.5 don't want to muck that up!!
 
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