Can you get diabetes from taking too many different medications?
Posted in Definition on 10. Aug, 2010
Question by Abbie: Can you get diabetes from taking too many different medications?
Is it possible to have not had diabetes your entire life but then you have something happen where you need to take many different medications and from taking all those medications you get diabetes?
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Answer by kim
nope, you get it from eating way to much sugary food!
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There are medications that are more likely to give you diabetes. One of these is steroids either the orals or the injections.
If you already have diabetes, the steroids make it much harder to control your glucose levels when you must take the steroids to live happily.
There are other medications that affect glucose levels, but I am not that acquainted with them. You must look them up on the NIH site and read all the pages of testing those meds had and all the side effects as a matter of seeing which and maybe which combination smacked you on the nose.
If you look at the warning label of many prescription medications one of the “side effects” could be diabetes. It is even a side effect of birth control pills. There have been ties to certain types of medication and the development of Type 1 diabetes (not type 2 that I am aware of). The medical community still can’t say what exactly cause Type1 at this time but certain medications seem to trigger it in some people. My husband developed Type 1 after taking Accutane and his aunt believes hers was caused by a medication she took (she developed it in her 30’s which is late for Type 1). There still isn’t proof to this theory but there seems to be some evidence that it is likely the case.
I was recently diagnosed with pre diabetes. Come to find out, my neurologist and primary care doctors prescribed 2 of the 5 meds I take/have been taking for 2 years, and these are causing my blood sugar to spike! Funny part is my primary care dr sent me a letter that said “work on controlling your sugar”…WHAT? How do I do that when it is the the very meds these drs. give me causing this?? Do what I did and google each prescribed med you take in a form of a question: “Can (type of drug) cause blood sugar to spike”? This is how I discovered the cause of my pre diabetes….going to try to get my meds switched out.