- Messages
- 75
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- Bad blood sugars, not being able to eat chocolate fudge cake.
Ok, the hospital tend to tell us to avoid it completely but quite frankly, I am a teacher plus have a young toddler so avoiding it altogether at the weekends? You're having a laugh :')
So lets ask the question, what do we treat alcohol as? We know most alcohol contains sugar, and I think there is roughly 10 grams in a pint of lager and about the same in a medium glass of white wine. Luckily I drink mostly red wine which is quite low in sugar (about 1 gram per medium glass) but lately I tend to have around 4 points of lager in an evening.
NOW, obviously alcohol itself can lower blood sugar levels (something to do with alcohol reducing the glycogen output from your liver, which I think insulin uses to move around the body) so what do people tend to do when drinking alcohol? Lets say I usually take 4 units of insulin for 40 grams of carbs. Would it be advisable to take insulin that matches what sugars are in lager, for example: 4 beers = 40 grams of sugar/carbs, would it be good to take 4 units of insulin or would this be too risky over night?
If it was a case of taking insulin whilst drinking, how would it work out? I usually take about 45 mins - Hour to drink a pint of beer in the house (purposely spread out so I dont drink any more than 4 pints) so obviously I could not take insulin with each drink, perhaps maybe halfway through (after 2 drinks) I could test blood and take 2 units?
I would be grateful of hearing peoples opinions or success stories once again
I usually just experiment and TAKE the insulin to measure the results but this would be far to risky.
So lets ask the question, what do we treat alcohol as? We know most alcohol contains sugar, and I think there is roughly 10 grams in a pint of lager and about the same in a medium glass of white wine. Luckily I drink mostly red wine which is quite low in sugar (about 1 gram per medium glass) but lately I tend to have around 4 points of lager in an evening.
NOW, obviously alcohol itself can lower blood sugar levels (something to do with alcohol reducing the glycogen output from your liver, which I think insulin uses to move around the body) so what do people tend to do when drinking alcohol? Lets say I usually take 4 units of insulin for 40 grams of carbs. Would it be advisable to take insulin that matches what sugars are in lager, for example: 4 beers = 40 grams of sugar/carbs, would it be good to take 4 units of insulin or would this be too risky over night?
If it was a case of taking insulin whilst drinking, how would it work out? I usually take about 45 mins - Hour to drink a pint of beer in the house (purposely spread out so I dont drink any more than 4 pints) so obviously I could not take insulin with each drink, perhaps maybe halfway through (after 2 drinks) I could test blood and take 2 units?
I would be grateful of hearing peoples opinions or success stories once again
I usually just experiment and TAKE the insulin to measure the results but this would be far to risky.