I guess I'm joining the ranks of diabetics as well....
After a couple of years of unsuccessfully treating a chronic congestion condition with bouts of Prednisone, my blood work last week showed a fasting blood sugar of 188.
As of now, I'm going strict diet and exercise route and not on any medications. Simple solution, I'm not eating or drinking anything that has sugar or corn syrup in it and I'm limiting the more complex carbs to 150 per day +/-. I've been at this a week now and my fasting blood sugar is down to 148. Hopefully, I'll be able to get this back under control without ever having to go on meds or insulin. I really don't want to go on the meds because one side affect of diabetes medications is weight gain and I deal with weigh enough as it is.
I know that the theory that Prednisone can cause diabetes is debated, but I find it interesting that now I've got diabetes... when the only real change in my life has been being put on Prednisone so many times in the last 12 months. The ear/nose/throat doc had me on it for about 2 months straight last January/February and that's when I began to show some of the symptoms... only I didn't realize they were symptoms of diabetes.
Now I'm dealing with this...and that chronic sinus congestion problem that I dealt with for the past two years, completely losing my sense of smell and causing asthma issues? Ear/nose/throat doc didn't do a thing for it. Week before last, when I was at my regular yearly check up with my general physician, he put me on a "shock and awe" treatment of several different meds that had been tried singularly...and it cleared right up within 4 days.
Sheesh... I'm not very happy with the medical profession right now.
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. I am no expert, but I would be stunned if celery was off limits. I would suspect that a diabetic can eat all the celery they want.