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How does serum glucose normally fluctuate during activie phases of acute or chronic pancreatitis? does glucose get elevated after pancreatitis ends?
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Sugar: Your sugars can be very sporadic and and change upward or downward, with pancreatitis, but normally it will go up. As your pancreas is damaged, so are the cells that produce insulin and therefore your sugar my elevate.
Answered 5/8/2015
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