The last thing I will talk about is infertility and all that goes along with that. Unfortunately, men with CF get the raw end of the deal. Upwards of 97% of men with CF are infertile. That’s not to say that through the magic of medicine that they can’t reproduce. It just take a lot more time, effort and money to do so. Once again the dang thick sticky mucus puts a stop to things in our bodies. There is mucus throughout your body which is to include the cervix of women. With that said, the thick mucus doesn’t allow the sperm to get where it needs to go to fertilize the egg. The egg itself might have trouble traveling down the fallopian tube also. So needless to say it could take a real miracle of God for some CF women to get pregnant. (more…)
CF Happens
Sometimes in life CF (Cystic Fibrosis) happens…pun intended
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CFRD or CF related diabetes is also common in people with CF. Due to the pancreas not functioning properly, it throws many things off whack, to include blood sugars. People with CF take a lot of steroids like prednisone to help with inflammation in the lungs. Steroids throw blood sugars all out of sorts, usually resulting in really high blood glucose numbers. With the diet needs in people with CF the amount of monitoring of blood sugars is high. Our bodies pull so much from us to fight infection and just to breathe that we can bottom out and have really low numbers and also go really high in the matter of hours. (more…)
CF Happens 