Re: New Here - Cancer/Lynn/Eunice

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In a message dated 7/6/2006 9:05:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

purple7raptor@... writes:

Oh! The steroids. I had my glucose go up a lot from them but

I'd already been diagnosed as diabetic. I didn't know the

steroids could actually cause diabetes. I learned something.

Hi Lynn,

I took Decadron. I gained about 48 lbs in less than 2 months. I just went

to WebMD and looked this up. It can cause diabetes. It can also cause high

blood pressure which I was not aware of. After finishing chemo and

radiation, I had high blood pressure. Once I lost the weight, my blood

pressure is

back to normal.

hugs

Eunice

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How do steroids cause diabetes?

Re: New Here - Cancer/Lynn/Eunice

Oh! The steroids. I had my glucose go up a lot from them but I'd already

been diagnosed as diabetic. I didn't know the steroids could actually cause

diabetes. I learned something.

Lynn

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In a message dated 7/7/2006 1:20:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

GlassArtist@... writes:

How do steroids cause diabetes?

Hi ,

I don't know how they cause diabetes other than steroids does cause high bg

readings. Steroids can have bad side effects, but when they do the job they

are prescribed for, I guess it all evens out.

hugs

Eunice

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/Eunice,

I don't know how either, but I am on 23mg prednisone/day and have been told

by my endo and team as well as rheumatologist that this is probably why I

developed diabetes BUT, in Jan/Feb my A1C was 6.4 and 2 wks ago it was 5.1

so don't automatically think you can't do something about it! :-) I did and

on diet alone.

Judith

> GlassArtist@... writes:

>

> How do steroids cause diabetes?

>

>

> Hi ,

> I don't know how they cause diabetes other than steroids does cause high

bg

> readings. Steroids can have bad side effects, but when they do the job

they

> are prescribed for, I guess it all evens out.

>

> hugs

> Eunice

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In a message dated 7/7/2006 10:02:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

purple7raptor@... writes:

I had no idea it caused diabetes, or that it drove up blood

pressure. It sounds like you went through quite a bad time

with it, but you won.

Hi Lynn,

I had 8 out of 12 nodes positive, which surprised my surgeon and my

oncologist. They never expected that many to be positive since the tumor was

so

small. Very few people take as much chemo as I took. My oncologist had told

me

that it would take 6-8 months for the complete treatment. I finished in 5

months and 1 week. I never got sick, never had to miss a treatment. I got

treatments every 19 days with the pump at home for 72 hours with each

treatment.

My first four treatments were Cytoxan, VP16 and Adriamycin. My last four

treatments were 5FU, Methotrexate, Cisplatinum and Cytoxan. I hated the

porta-cath as much as I hated the treatments. But I survived and that is all

that

matters. Yes, I did win. This is why I don't complain about diabetes or

let it control me.

hugs

Eunice

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Hi Eunice,

I had the same thing - 8 out of 12 nodes positive. My chemo

was different from yours however. You went through a lot more

and had many more chemicals than I did.

I'm glad you won!

I had a PICC line in my arm. I hated that too.

Hugs, Lynn

In a message dated 7/7/2006 10:02:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

purple7raptor@... writes:

I had no idea it caused diabetes, or that it drove up blood

pressure. It sounds like you went through quite a bad time

with it, but you won.

Hi Lynn,

I had 8 out of 12 nodes positive, which surprised my surgeon and my

oncologist. They never expected that many to be positive since the

tumor was so

small. Very few people take as much chemo as I took. My oncologist

had told me

that it would take 6-8 months for the complete treatment. I finished

in 5

months and 1 week. I never got sick, never had to miss a treatment.

I got

treatments every 19 days with the pump at home for 72 hours with each

treatment.

My first four treatments were Cytoxan, VP16 and Adriamycin. My last

four

treatments were 5FU, Methotrexate, Cisplatinum and Cytoxan. I hated

the

porta-cath as much as I hated the treatments. But I survived and that

is all that

matters. Yes, I did win. This is why I don't complain about diabetes

or

let it control me.

hugs

Eunice

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[Guest guest]

I must be a total odd ball becuase I loved my PICC line and my central

line! I didn't like the reasons I needed them for but they sure were

great to have.

~Marisa

> I had a PICC line in my arm. I hated that too.

[Guest guest]

LOL Well, Marisa, to each her own. I'm glad you liked it. One

thing I did like about it was that I didn't have to have

surgery to get it.

Lynn

I must be a total odd ball becuase I loved my PICC line and my central

line! I didn't like the reasons I needed them for but they sure were

great to have.

~Marisa

> I had a PICC line in my arm. I hated that too.

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In a message dated 7/11/2006 11:03:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

purple7raptor@... writes:

One

thing I did like about it was that I didn't have to have

surgery to get it.

Hi Lynn,

I was in the operating room twice for the porta-cath. The first time I was

not put to sleep and my surgeon could not get my veins to cooperate. It was

to be a 30 minute process and he tried for 1 hr and 45 minutes. He gave up,

scheduled me for the next week to be put to sleep. He had no problem that

time. I was in the operating room 5 times that year.

hugs

Eunice