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
Sometimes in life CF (Cystic Fibrosis) happens…pun intended
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Nasal polyps are very common in CF. I, myself, have had a number of sinus surgeries to remove polyps. I have lost count how many surgeries. During the surgery they go up through your nose into the sinuses and remove all the polyps and make bigger openings if needed. It is not a fun surgery by any means.
There have been cases where an ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) doctor has noticed polyps and suggested that the person be tested for CF because polyps are so profound in people with CF. Then they tested positive for CF. It is interesting how different signs/symptoms are prominent in some and nearly undetectable in others. The reason for that is that CF is very unpredictable. (more…)
CF Happens 