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Permalink Reply by Mark Holmes on April 26, 2009 at 5:56pm

Hmmm.. interesting. Not sure how one would go about determining that though.

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Permalink Reply by Ellie on April 26, 2009 at 3:23pm

Steroids affect blood sugar and can even, I understand, bring on diabetes. I have been recommended Flonase and the doctor assured me there wasn't enough steroid in the doses to affect blood sugar, but I don't buy that. I'd say get off it as soon as you can. Are you sure it's a virus and not a bacterial sinus infection? I fight them frequently, and they linger forever...the only thing that helps is 3 weeks of a really good antibiotic, like Augmentin.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Holmes on April 26, 2009 at 4:25pm

Well don't think sinus infections are contagious and my wife caught this virus. No facial pain, no discoloration of mucus. Mostly post-nasal drip which irritates my chest some. Fevers are gone - strength is back , but tickling in chest, some mild aching in chest and occasional heavy post-nasal drip remains. Supposedly nasal steroids don't affect sugars and I suspect since I can keep my sugars down in the 100-110 level with no grains, that that wouldn't be possible if the flonase was affecting them.

Mark

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Permalink Reply by Ellie on April 16, 2012 at 10:31am

No one seems to have addressed the question about your long-term respiratory virus. Are you sure it's still a virus? I had a sinus infection from Thanksgiving till I finally saw an ENT who put me on sufficient antibiotic to finally kill it in March.

And these illnesses DO affect blood sugar. I wouldn't do anything drastic in terms of blood sugar regime until you recover from your infection.

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