If you have steroid induced diabetes then this may be for you. The key is to prolong the time between prednisolone dose and largest meal as much as possible. Before I used to take prednisolone with tacrolimus in am and by lunch time the two meds would be really high in my blood. Both meds synergistically spike blood sugar so when I had my heavy meal.at lunch my blood sugar spiked even after taking diabetic meds. So, what I did was take the heavy meal that is lunch for me at a time when the levels of prednisolone and tacrolimus are low in my blood. Prednisolone becomes low after 12 hours you take it so I started taking both tacrolimus and prednisolone at pm and very light meal if any I take at night. Now i don’t need to take any diabetic meds even after lunch. The trick is the two meds tacrolimus and prednisolone are no higher in my blood when I take largest meal. You can give this technique a try. Also, my hunger has lessened.
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I just assumed what if the medications were low in my system and I took them separately? I also read medicines can together cause synergism. My doc says no problem.
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@mmr1984 Welcome to Mayo Connect. I see you have been here just a short while. Congratulations on your liver transplant. It sounds like things are going well for you!
Thank you for telling us about your medication finds. I am interested in hearing how you came about finding out to do this? What has the response been from your transplant team?
Ginger
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