Hi pharao88,
Sorry you are feeling so tired. Please address these questions to you doctor. Make sure you are getting your routine blood test and stay in close contact with your dr and tell them about all your symptoms. Only your dr can determine if you are diabetic. I keep a ledger while on treatment. When I have a question I right it down so when I visit or talk to my dr I can ask the question. (When it comes to your health there's no such thing as a stupid question.)

Good luck with your treatment sounds like you are getting close to the finish line.
blanche

pharaoh ,hi...yes i think it can,,,but it's usually temporary,,the interferon causes sugar levels to rise,,if so...once u're finished w/tx. it should level off,,detox all those meds...hey is that u're pretty child? very pretty u are a proud daddy......god bless u...........

I have read that as your vl rises and your liver gets damaged and is trying to work harded the pancreas will try to take up slack for the liver and your sugars will rise. I have been dx with diabetes but since I was undie it seems to have leveled off. Had a1c done 1 month ago, came back 5.1 and was told i had great sugar control and what was i doing now. I changed nothing!
Bill

That's a bit of a low glucose as normal approaches around a 10 (Pharaoh you are done a couple of days after Peacefulsoul and I are done by the way. A couple just finished and there are at least 6 of us done in January now with you. How awesome is that?).

First, I would make sure that you're eating your meals regularly. Your doctor should order a 12-hour fasting glucose to get a good picture of things. There's an even more important test known as a hemoglobin a1c that should also be drawn. That test measures how well your blood sugars have been over a longer period of time as compared to a snapshot in time. Interferon can mess with blood sugars as can many medications. Often times these resolve though when you stop them like for you since you're ALMOST DONE!!!! :-D

I knew you'd be finishing soon but didn't know exactly when. It's nice to see you drop in again and I hope you keep us posted throughout the end of your course. You're are only member from your part of the world, which is really awesome. It sounds like you've been keeping busy as per your last post a while back. Don't worry too much about it yet and I'd be way more worried if your glucose was over 200+ at this point.

Again, 12-hour fasting glucose, hemoglobin a1c and regular meals.

Hang in there. I'm trying to do the same. Sounds like it's very tough for you again. Sorry to hear but it's ending. :-D

Bill, that's an excellent result and would mean that you don't have diabetes. Yay Bill (again). LOL

MAJOR CORRECTION *Normal approaches 100. Can't believe I did that but I don't proofread em all to check for mistexts and auto-corrects. I do this mostly from my phone. An iPad for this would be great if you had 48 weeks to do. U can do it in bed even.

Anyway, I won't need one still.

I hate to say this phorah but I think a lot of things can cause diebites anything that makes you eat. The fatter you are the more chance you have in depeloping it I know that and some meds cause you to eat more. Like the Seriqui Im on it make reefer munches look like an ant in the desert. Like 100 times more munchies than pot. And Im sure there are other meds that do that also. So my best advice is try not to get to overweight that will help the most.

that is right on Jim. I've always wondered if that was your beautiful child too Pharaoh. Wow, that is hard to have to study when you really don't feel well. I went through that a couple of times but nothing of the duration that you are doing this in. Many of us told you that you will have a great life after this is soon behind you. You are too young to deal with it because I certainly felt the same but I hope you enjoy your HCV free life when you get medical confirmation.

Thank you :)
I'm feeling better now (actually no, I'm still tired, but that's how I deal with pain, by convince myself that I'm fine)
In a couple of hours I'll take the 43rd shot and this means I'm almost DONE. YAY!

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@Dilly, No, not my child, I just love his smile
@Bill, you have made a very important change, you finished your treatment :) enjoy your post-treatment life.
@Ernie, you're right, the key is eating regular meals, because when I did this test (RBS), it was about 13 hours since my last meal (a disadvantage of being very busy studying, skipping breakfast)
@dreamkite, I'm a little concerned about my weight, but I'm not overweight, I'm underweight and this increased after treatment.

And Congratulations to all those who finished this journey.

BTW, I miss all those people who finished and I was thinking that we make the first day of every month (or any other day) to come back again and see how are we all doing post treatment.

Congrats Pharao! Almost there!
I don't plan on leaving as this place has made my treatment much easier than it could have been. We all share a common bond,we are or have fought the "Dragon". Besides where would I find such a diverse group of people who get along (most of the time)and care deeply for each other! Also crazy as a bunch of loons! Want to help others going through this like DR.Joe has and is.
Anyways,take care and Still praying for you!
Bill

What is brain fog?
it's what I did in my last comment, I thought about the words in my head and just wrote "@"

I wanted to write "@blanche, yes, I always write down all my questions because I can't rely on my memory"

Bill, I remember some people when I first joined DS, but now I don't see them, so I thought if somebody can't come here often that we make this day to group together and remind ourselves of the good times we had during treatment, bad memories are forbidden :) we won't remember them as we wanna forget them and live our HCV free life.

You know what, I just remembered now something caleed "roll call" I think I saw a post like this a while back, that's what I meant, but my brain is not working well so I keep forgetting things :S