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Hi i am type 2 and take trulicity and another tablet.
last week i was put on steroids for another issue but immediately felt my sugars were high. Really thirsty, craving everything sweet and felt like i was on a sugar high. Had to stop taking steroids after 6 days as i felt so rubbish. Now i feel awful, last two days still feel gittery and high, dizzy headaches and a horrible taste/feeling in mouth. Today i have an upset tummy. I have been really careful with diet since i stopped steroids and i jist tested my sugars. They are 10.5 but my body feels should be higher so not sure whats going on. I feel like a kind of hangover thats not shifting
 
Hi and welcome.

Sorry to hear you are feeling rough. Did you get medical advice about stopping the steroids? Depending upon the dose you were taking you have to be careful about suddenly stopping them as your body may well object and feel rough/hungover.

Unfortunately steroids are known to increase BG levels.

Have you been given any advice about dietary changes to help control your BG levels. Many of us have found that NHS dietary advice is poor when it comes to diabetes and that restricting carbohydrate intake (that is all carbs not just sugar) really helps to manage BG levels and keep them low. That means reducing the amount of bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, breakfast cereals etc as well as the obvious cakes and biscuits and sweets and sugar of course. It involves a whole new way of thinking about food but it can be quite enjoyable once you get your head around it.
 
Thankyou, ive been really careful the last cpl of days as i felt my sugars were really elevated, but its not made a difference.
 
A couple of days of being good, diet wise, will help with post meal spikes but it won't have had time to impact pre meal levels. You would be well advised to look at long term dietary changes if you haven't already and adopting a pre and 2hr post meal testing schedule to identify which foods cause you problems and use that info to adjust your portion size to what your body can cope with. This way you can tailor your diet to your body's particular intolerance to carbs. So for instance some people can get away with a 40g portion of porridge oats made into porridge but some of us, even 20g porridge oats spikes our levels. Some people can manage a couple of roast potatoes but rice or pasta is a no-no. Mashed potato is often like eating glucose for many of us but a few new potatoes are fine. Mashed cauliflower works well as a mashed potato substitute especially if you add a good dollop of cream cheese and a teaspoon of wholegrain mustard. Grated cauliflower can also be used as a low carb replacement for rice or couscous. These are just a couple of suggestions but if you read around the forum you will find lots of tips and ideas for avoiding or reducing high carb foods. Please ask if you want more info re testing or anything else you don't understand.
 
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