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Am in week 10 of AbbVie 12-wk Clinical Trial Phase III. & am UND by Week 2.
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And thank you DailyStrengthers for supporting my entry into this miracle!
My goals remain 3:
1 continue UND --> SVR
2 manage sides
3 emerge without residual sides
Does anyone have any experience with dealing with hyperglycemic side effects of treatment (e.g., protease inhibitor) ?
I cannot take herbs, for instance, (such as gyn-stemma ) for possible interaction. Am told to exercise. I already eat whole grains.
That's the question, and for those wishing a bit more backstory --------------- :
Just this week was informed my fasting blood sugar has been elevating. Fasting blood sugar before trial was 97, then elevated with every biweekly test; currently is at 117.
Am told it will most likely go away when drugs are discontinued. Will be monitored for another 6 months thereafter -- and presumably / hopefully will be out of the valley of this (such as it developing to diabetes). Of course I may remain be in the shadow of this, as was hypOglycemic when I began, so maybe will return to either that, which needs monitoring, or hypERglycemia tendency as "new norm."
Stay Strong
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( space for my being speechless )
And thank you DailyStrengthers for supporting my entry into this miracle!
My goals remain 3:
1 continue UND --> SVR
2 manage sides
3 emerge without residual sides
Does anyone have any experience with dealing with hyperglycemic side effects of treatment (e.g., protease inhibitor) ?
I cannot take herbs, for instance, (such as gyn-stemma ) for possible interaction. Am told to exercise. I already eat whole grains.
That's the question, and for those wishing a bit more backstory --------------- :
Just this week was informed my fasting blood sugar has been elevating. Fasting blood sugar before trial was 97, then elevated with every biweekly test; currently is at 117.
Am told it will most likely go away when drugs are discontinued. Will be monitored for another 6 months thereafter -- and presumably / hopefully will be out of the valley of this (such as it developing to diabetes). Of course I may remain be in the shadow of this, as was hypOglycemic when I began, so maybe will return to either that, which needs monitoring, or hypERglycemia tendency as "new norm."
Stay Strong
yes 125 is the alarm zone, dragonars ... being thrust into prediabetes suddenly, i'm looking to cobble together Plan B in advance of any such possibility, rather than find myself there without a plan of action ...
so my dear friends, currently, my focus is on finding an adequate specialist for a second opinion ...
and it's nice to work with letting go of inevitable unwholesome emotions that naturally arise upon considering the clinic's having dropped the ball on informing me of the situation, until now ...
8 hr fasting 143 ml
1 hour after lunch 123 ml
1 hour before supper 135
1 hour after supper 119
Making app't with gen'l practitioner Friday. App't with hepatologist, July 29.
As it feels to me like a coin toss on a couple points, I'm leaving them to more specific tests, and the general practitioner and the hepatologist, to decide; this chemo brain is too maxxed out. For the
record, it's about reversibility / irreversibility.
In favor of reversibility -- the fact the hyperglycemia's a result of the chemo;
cease chemo, the symptoms will go away.
In favor of irreversibility -- that I've "crossed the line," + that I'd already developed hypoglycemia 10-15 years ago, so am already predisposed ... + am also already careful about my diet and weight and
exercise (altho' I may have to be even more so on an on-going basis).
ASSUMING you are on Riba, here's what I found:
"On Jun, 11, 2013: 20,963 people reported to have side effects when taking Ribavirin. Among them, 59 people (0.28%) have Hyperglycemia." I'm not clear if that means it was a side effect or they had it to begin with...http://www.ehealthme.com/ds/ribavirin/hyperglycemia
"Diabetes patients - Ribavirin may affect your blood sugar. Check blood sugar levels closely. Ask your doctor before you change the dose of your diabetes medicine." This was more than half way on the page:
Read more at http://www.drugs.com/cdi/ribavirin.html#vxk9WUZijQPgodyu.99
"Physically ribavirin is similar to the sugar D-ribose from which it is derived. .... " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribavirin
Don't quit treatment,
I guess you can monitor on your own, Rass, beyond the test, to ensure your SVR.