Postby Dot » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:02 pm
Hi Brenda
My husband is currently undergoing treatment for Stage IV CC with mets to the liver. He is also a diabetic, Type 1. Diabetes is a disease that you can control somewhat with medications. If you do not get your blood sugars under control then you risk damage to other parts of your body. Kidney damage, hypertension, blindness etc. Diabetics also heal slower then someone without it partly due to poor circulation and having high blood sugars. My opinion is take the medications needed to keep the diabetes under control. Frankly, you can find just about anything that could cause cancer. There are many people that have Type II Diabetes
that take the oral medications who don't have cancer.
During Chemo my husband's blood sugars are high due to the Decadron and that chemo drugs need to be in a Dextrose solution, so he has to make adjustments and take more insulin. Also, he sees his endocrinologist more often now.
Hope this helps. If you can go through the cancer treatments and survive and beat it, then you can do anything!