I won’t mention the name of the drug because I know diabetes is a side affect of quiet a few drugs and in general I would never want to discourage people from taking prescribed medications, but do be aware and read the phamplets that come with your medication.
So I was on various medications as had been diagnosed bi-polar. One of them does say as a potential side affect can give you diabetes. They did the blood tests every year and I think year 2 I was normal results for blood glucose about 43 and then zoomed up the next year to 58 which is really high to the point they wanted me on medication straight away. I absolutely refused and came off the medication against doctors orders. Made sure my diet was spot on and went back to being pre-diabetic with-in a year. Since then I know I was incorrectly diagnosed as actually have PMDD so should never have been on medication in first place.
I have medically induced diabetes and currently keeping it under control through diet. Learning how to cook is such a key issue as many people I know who struggle with diabetes refuse to cook fresh foods as either too much hassle or simply never learnt how to cook so left eating ultra-processed foods which is incredibly sad and dangerous.
I won’t mention the name of the drug because I know diabetes is a side affect of quiet a few drugs and in general I would never want to discourage people from taking prescribed medications, but do be aware and read the phamplets that come with your medication.
So I was on various medications as had been diagnosed bi-polar. One of them does say as a potential side affect can give you diabetes. They did the blood tests every year and I think year 2 I was normal results for blood glucose about 43 and then zoomed up the next year to 58 which is really high to the point they wanted me on medication straight away. I absolutely refused and came off the medication against doctors orders. Made sure my diet was spot on and went back to being pre-diabetic with-in a year. Since then I know I was incorrectly diagnosed as actually have PMDD so should never have been on medication in first place.
I have medically induced diabetes and currently keeping it under control through diet. Learning how to cook is such a key issue as many people I know who struggle with diabetes refuse to cook fresh foods as either too much hassle or simply never learnt how to cook so left eating ultra-processed foods which is incredibly sad and dangerous.