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Our daughter, 28 is due to give birth soon. She has been on Zoloft. Someone told her Zoloft has been linked to newborn diabetes and death and this has caused her to stop taking it. Can you confirm what she was told?

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Our 14 year old daughter needs extra insulin, has high ketones and episodes of DKA when her period is due. Would the oral contractive pill help her?

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I am a 39 year old women who has had type 2 diabetes for eight months treated with Glucophage and Glucotrol, and I also am taking other medications. For about a month, I have been getting nauseated a couple of hours after I eat, sometimes to the point where I can’t even finish eating. I can never get an appointment with my doctor, and I am wondering if any of these medications are incompatible. Seeking answers.

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I stopped taking “the pill” about two weeks ago and I have been having a lot of blood sugars in the 50s and 60s [mg/dl; 2.8 mg/dl and 3.3 mmol/L]. Do you think it’s hormone related?

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My son and his wife are both taking atenolol, and he has had spells shaking and getting sick at his stomach etc. He got sick like that last night while he was here, and when I checked his glucose, it was low. I also checked took his wife’s blood sugar, and hers was also low. Could atenolol make my son and his wife have low blood sugar?

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I work for a healthcare organization, and we are being told that if we receive the ‘FluMist’ we must be off work for 21 days because it contains a live strain of influenza. My son, who has type 1 diabetes, has already received his flu shot. Are there risks if my son comes in contact with someone who has received FluMist?

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My grandfather, who has diabetes treated with pills, also has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and his doctors want to put him on prednisone which will make his sugar requiring insulin therapy. His two doctors seem to disagree. What problems are there with prednisone in a person with type 2 diabetes?

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My grandson has had all the normal childhood vaccinations with no problems so far. With all the talk of possibly beginning to vaccinate the general population against smallpox again, it started me wondering. Are there any vaccinations that children with type 1 diabetes should avoid?

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My 69 year old obese sister, who has type 2 diabetes, had lots of back pain for which she took steroid shots and has become almost grotesquely “fat.” Could this be due to Cushing’s syndrome brought on by use of steroids? If so, is any treatment? Should she seek help from a specialist?

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I am taking high doses of prednisone, and and I’ve been told I have steroid-induced diabetes which is being treated with an oral medication. Will this form of diabetes resolve itself when I can lower the prednisone levels or discontinue it entirely?

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