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<blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 2355655" data-attributes="member: 196898"><p>I don't think anyone knows why this happens. I am a T2D on orals only, and I respond differently. </p><p></p><p>The experiments I have done so far (n=1) is that I do get lower blood sugars that are measurable by my bgl meter. The effect shows up in my FBG the next morning, so it is a sustained low. But I do not go hypo, just low. I have never blacked out and only once had a dizzy spell (and I used to drink heavily). One thing I did discover is that it is retroactive, in that I can eat a carby meal, get the spike of 3 or more mmol/l clicks, then take a shot of a spirit such as a whisky, and see the BGL drop into low 5's by the 4hr PP time, and it remains low most of the night. It is like the glucose has disappeared.</p><p></p><p>I know also that over a prolonged period of drinking bouts, my weight, and girth increases, so that indicates the glucose gets stored away. Now I suffer from Insulin Resistance, so I have a feeling the alcohol is either reducing my IR by interfering with whatever drives IR, or it is increasing my insulin output. It is not (as my original thoughts were) that it was changing my blood chemistry such that my bgl meter was giving a false reading.</p><p></p><p>For me, it works to my advantage, but it is not a tool that I would recommend as a treatment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldvatr, post: 2355655, member: 196898"] I don't think anyone knows why this happens. I am a T2D on orals only, and I respond differently. The experiments I have done so far (n=1) is that I do get lower blood sugars that are measurable by my bgl meter. The effect shows up in my FBG the next morning, so it is a sustained low. But I do not go hypo, just low. I have never blacked out and only once had a dizzy spell (and I used to drink heavily). One thing I did discover is that it is retroactive, in that I can eat a carby meal, get the spike of 3 or more mmol/l clicks, then take a shot of a spirit such as a whisky, and see the BGL drop into low 5's by the 4hr PP time, and it remains low most of the night. It is like the glucose has disappeared. I know also that over a prolonged period of drinking bouts, my weight, and girth increases, so that indicates the glucose gets stored away. Now I suffer from Insulin Resistance, so I have a feeling the alcohol is either reducing my IR by interfering with whatever drives IR, or it is increasing my insulin output. It is not (as my original thoughts were) that it was changing my blood chemistry such that my bgl meter was giving a false reading. For me, it works to my advantage, but it is not a tool that I would recommend as a treatment. [/QUOTE]
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