
What Causes Weight Gain While On Steroids?

You're still exposed to steroids through bethametasone skin cream
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
I have gone through your medical history carefully and understood your concern.
Unfortunately, the use of steroids is associated with weight gain as side effect.
It will need some time after last exposure to lose weight. This will depend on:
- the dose used
- frequency of dosage
- how long it has been used or repeated
So, if your last injectons were on April, you won't lose weight for a few more months considering your age.
From what you are reporting, you are still using steroids for skin eczema you are experiencing. This makes you still exposing to steroids continuously although in small dosage.
So, I'd advise to stop using steroid cream even in small dosage on your skin.
Regarding skin eczema, as steroid use is also associated with blood glucose imbalance, if I was your caring doctor would advise you to run diabetes testing.
I also advise to run examination of skin scrapping to exclude fungal infection of the skin.
Hope it was of help.
Dr.Albana

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