Keith49I get the bolus every two weeks as pretreatment for infusion of pegloticase. It raises my blood glucose to unacceptable levels, so excercize would be a help in lowering the reading. I am a liver transplant recipient, and must keep my weight down, so the high glucose levels present a big problem.
Should I refrain from excercizing after 125 mg bolus of solu Medrol?
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- 21 Apr 2012 by Keith49
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- solu-medrol, gout -- acute, immunosuppression, glucose
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endlessPred21 Apr 2012
Hello. The blood sugar levels do shoot up with the solumedrol and I have had it many times too.
My doc put me on insulin. I am considered type II diabetic, medication induced. My immunosuppressant drugs also elevate my blood sugars. Not sure where you are from, but it is standard protocol here that all hospital and infusion patients are checked for blood sugar levels and treated on the spot. It promotes better healing and less chance of neuropathy and other damage. I suggest you see an internal medicine doc or other who will take care of this for you. That isnot good they overlooked this. Some docs think it is a temporary raise, but the docs here are more aggressive. This is a big teaching and medical research hub so they are more cutting edge (excuse the pun).
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Yeah, I take insulin when I have to, like yesterday, but when I do it sure packs on the pounds. That's why I'd rather combine excercise with insulin, so that I take less, and have fewer problems with weight gain. I'm off insulin with normal blood sugars (even with the immunosuppressant) except for the days I have the steroid bolus. I am even going beyond the diabetic diet, to what is basically a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, and it has worked wonders. Just wondering how dangerous the combination of excercise and solu-Medrol are, because the research I've done shows the drug can cause heart problems and pulmonory embolism.
That clears things up. I am wiped out the day after an infusion. Sometimes two. Different meds but always the solumedrol. I know that you should not exercise on the day of a procedure. Usually 24 hours. Have not gained weight on insulin. Sounds like our metabolisms are different. Best to give the doc a call to find out your thresholds and what is recommended. My doc usually says if my heart isn't racing on simple tasks then I am fine to do more. I assume your heart has been well checked post surgery? You may be experiencing water weight connected to the infusion.