01When to bring a log to the refill
Bring fasting and later-day numbers if you already measure. Bring thirst and urination if you do not. The refill visit is a bad time to hide either.
Glucose is the only job on this URL. Broader 10 mg notes sit on the prednisone vault.
02How a burst versus months changes the watch
A five-morning pack can still bump a meter. Months of 10 mg keep the bump in place and add bone and infection watches. Calendar length changes how often you look, not whether glucose is on the list.
Dietary salt restriction may be advisable on the same insert. That sentence is not a diabetes diet. Ask before you invent both.
03What the endocrine list names for glucose
Decreased carbohydrate and glucose tolerance. Hyperglycemia. Glycosuria. Diabetes mellitus, new or a latent case that finally shows. Those are labelled lines, not 'just steroid hunger.'
Increased insulin or oral-agent needs in people who already treat diabetes sit on the same list. Bring the meter log to the visit that prints the last day.
04What a cough is not
High sugar does not explain a productive cough. You need a chest plan. Both can be true on the same week. They are not the same plan.
Muted fever on steroid weeks still goes to the infection pulse. Do not wait because the meter is also loud.
05Why latent diabetes can declare on 10 mg
Corticosteroids push glucose out of the range a quiet pancreas was barely holding. People who never owned a meter meet a high reading on week two and think the tablet is broken. The tablet is doing a labelled endocrine job.
Thirst, extra urination, and blur that starts with the burst belong in the same sentence as the 10 mg, not in a separate 'aging' story.
06What insulin or oral agents may need
Requirements can rise while the glucocorticoid is on board. They may fall again when the course ends. Do not invent the new insulin number from this page. Do not stop a home agent because a burst started.
Sick-day rules belong on the same visit that writes the 10 mg. The taper pulse will not email them.