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I am a 30 year old with type 1 diabetes for seven years. I have been on the birth control pill for the past four years, and I have had some issues with control, but no more so than when I was not on it. However, last week I started a new pack and my blood sugars went berserk. Have you ever heard of someone having an adverse reaction to birth control pills?

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I have had type 1 diabetes for about five months. I also have severe asthma, and I ended up needing to take prednisone last week on a tapering dose for the next six weeks. I actually got my blood sugars pretty well controlled, but now that I am on the steroids, I am seeing my blood sugars elevated more. Can steroids cause this?

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How can Ventolin cause hyperglycemia? What can we do to solve this problem?

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When I was younger, I was put on allergy shots which seemed to have helped, but they also appeared to make my blood sugar go consistently high. However, I don’t know if this had more to do with simply going through puberty. Now, I am seriously considering going back on the allergy shots, but I am afraid to do so. Do allergy shots cause blood sugars to seemingly skyrocket?

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My 15 year old daughter, who has type 1 diabetes and anemia, has been diagnosed with eosinophilic fasciitis. Her free T-4 level was I read that children can have normal TSH and still be hypothyroid or what they termed at central hypothyroidism. Could you please explain this to me? Would corticosteroids or methotrexate be better to treat her eosinophilic fasciitis?

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My 13 year old son was diagnosed when he was 11, and when I read about diabetes they talk about turning the liver off so want to know how type 1 diabetes affects the liver. What do they mean? What would the end result of a worn out liver look like in diabetes? Can niacinamide hurt my son’s liver in the long run?

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How long can you keep glucagon after it has been reconstituted?

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What would you consider to be appropriate precautions and or preliminary testing prior to placing a 10 year old girl with Turner’s Syndrome (mosaic) and type 1 diabetes on newly developed depot growth hormone developed to reduce the number of injections from daily to every 15 days? She was previously on daily injections for two years with excellent growth results.

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My mother has diabetes because of the loss of her pancreas and takes enzymes. What are the effects of daily aspirin intake for someone also taking enzymes?

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What are the best selections of anti-depressants for a teenager with type 1 diabetes? I have heard that some of them may cause high sugar levels.

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