General Discussion

and I believe the initial presentation of COVID was acute pancreatitis and DKA. My pancreatic specialist is seeing acute pancreatitis 2-3 weeks after the COVID infection resolves (not as the presenting symptom).

The only connection my pancreatic specialist thought might be relevant between diabetes and pancreatitis is that metforminm (the initial medication for most T2 diabetics) can cause pancreatitis - but not likely at the dose I'm on. Also not likely with diabetes as controlled as mine is. In the hospital they won't allow metformin, since it interferes with quite a few tests - instead they put you on insulin, based on how high your blood glucose is. I only hit the threshhold once, and then only because the meal schedule was so messed up that they checked at what was likely the peak level, rather than the trough (which they were supposed to check). (The threshold was 150 - I was at 151.)