Glucocorticoids (aka hydrocortisone or cortef) raise your blood sugar, so if you’re diabetic you’d need to take more insulin. If you’re borderline diabetic, taking the extra glucocorticoids may raise your blood sugars high enough where yo’d need treatment for diabetes.
Have nothing on the Tourettes for ya’ but I have type 1 diabetes and my daughter has SWCAH. My husband’s brother (whom I’m wondering if he has LOCAH due to some fertility issues) is also a type 1 diabetic. Both of us developed diabetes later than normal (I was 17, he was 21, which is pretty late for type oners)
As far as I know, however, there is nothing linking type 1 diabetes with CAH (yet!). I wonder, tho, if being a carrier of CAH delays the manifestation of type 1 diabetes.
Martha