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I've always been wary of anything ending in "sone." When I was a kid, my
dad had a friend with terrible arthritis, who had moved to the Southwest
for a better climate. It really made a big impression on me when my dad
told me that this man had developed diabetes because of the massive doses
of cortisone he'd had (this was sometime in the 50s).

Whenever I know I'm going to get a cortisone shot (sometimes necessary,
like for my frozen shoulder and neuromas in my foot), I have increased my
long-acting insulin by about half for a couple of days. That usually tides
me over with only 180 or so BG readings. I've never had any longer-acting
dosages than that, though. Don't know what would happen in such a case ...

Sue de LC

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Susan Pieper/Las Cruces, [log in to unmask]