Hi -- I've been lurking for a while. Great information and support here!
I'm Type II, diagnosed in October '06, on Metformin 500mg twice daily. Just in the last three weeks, I found the resolve to keep a really tight control on my blood sugars. I've been eating something every 2 hours to keep my hunger down, exercising, and making sure that my 2-hour post-meal bs is below 120. I feel much better and have lost 7 pounds (woo hoo!). But yesterday, I put a bit of a topical steroid medication on a patch of inflamed skin on my knee. And I was *so* hungry all day yesterday, that I could barely stay on plan!
I know steroids will affect diabetes, but I was wondering if anyone else had found that a topical affected them that way? I'm trying to decide if the hunger was all in my mind
Thanks!