# Where i've been this year **URL:** \ **Category:** Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/where-ive-been-this-year/15428 "2025-08-29T18:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![CarlosLuis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/carlosluis/32/11389_2.png) [@CarlosLuis](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CarlosLuis)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/where-ive-been-this-year/15428/5 "2025-08-29T20:47:03Z")
> [@daisymae](#): > > CarlosLouis, can you share about ur experiences with taking steroids? I would appreciate any info you have Be glad to, I was on 40mg of prednisone for 2 weeks and a very long taper off. It was for an immunotherapy rash. Then it changed to an autoimmune condition call Bullous primphigoid that causes blisters. I am on an injectable drug Dupixent. While on prednisone I was going through insulin like water over Niagara Falls. Then my wife suffered a stroke and is in rehab. I am stressed. Prednisone is external stressor and emotional stress acts much the same to me. Here’s a link to my experiences. > [@Prednisone tips](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/prednisone-tips/15088): > > Perhaps this should be in the diabetes tips, but here it is. I’ve been on immunotherapy for nearly a year and developed the classic itchy rash. It’s the most annoying side effect but the least dangerous. Anyway it’s becoming progressively worse. Both my oncologist and I tried to avoid oral prednisone knowing it would jack my BG through the roof. I’ve not adjusted my Tandem pump settings, adding 3 daily doses of Lantus. I also do override meal bolused and corrections. If BG continues to rise I… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/where-ive-been-this-year/15428)._