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by ncmncm 1629 days ago
Medication that causes type-2 diabetes is news to me. Most people get type-2, or insulin resistance, as a consequence of damaging their liver, and soaking in excess uric acid. Maybe your medication is hepatotoxic? If you are partially insulin-resistant, maybe it takes extra insulin to get the needed effect?

Robert Lustig has been curing fatty-liver-disease-induced type 2 diabetes in children by eliminating sugar from their diet. Of course kids get better faster than adults.

I would expect someone who knows he has induced type-2 diabetes to already be pretty damn careful about sugar intake...

But: I am not a physician. None of the above is competent medical advice.

That said, Robert Lustig says most physicians are woefully uninformed about liver pathology.

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>Medication that causes type-2 diabetes is news to me.

I believe in the ballpark of 5 to 6 million patients take this kind of medication in the US. If they all eventually got diabetes, it might be up to 15% of cases. However, not everybody lives long enough.