All i think to explain your experience is that maybe the alcohol stopped your body being able to respond fully to a lowering blood sugar.
The relaxing effect of the evening may have also allowed your insulin to work more effectively also so your bsl dropped further than usual.
What to do? In your place, but nit as advice or opinion:
I could decide not to drink alcohol at all, reasoning that it is in fact a toxin, produced by a bunch of yeast cells in order to stop another variety from pinching its food. Appointing myself a designated driver for others could help reinforce that decision and make for an understandable reason for my behaviour.
Otherwise i would need to eat some carbs regularly along with the drinking of alcohol to ensure my bsl did not drop and monitor things regularly.
If you are a light weight drinker (literally) and female then your liver can't respond to glucagon and generate glucose as it is too busy processing the 'poison' (incidentally this is why alcohol can be fattening over and above it's calorie content).Thanks for there advice.
To be honest I’m not a big drinker at all - I perhaps only have a couple of drinks every 2-3 months and I don’t really want to stop this entirely.
I thought that by eating the pizza and chips it would have been enough carbs to counteract the alcohol.... evidently not!
Thanks for the message. Unfortunately I didn’t wake up it’s only when I scanned my Libre I saw I had been so low. That’s what I’m worried about if it happens again! I was tossing and turning all night but I didn’t have a hypo feeling like I do in the day.If you are a light weight drinker (literally) and female then your liver can't respond to glucagon and generate glucose as it is too busy processing the 'poison' (incidentally this is why alcohol can be fattening over and above it's calorie content).
Eating a bit more pizza may have helped as would reducing your basal (if on a pump) for the early hours or the meal bolus although this would have left you a little higher than you might like at bedtime. Without knowing your regime it is hard to make useful selections but you get the idea!
A night time low is horrible but at least you did wake up to sort it out and seem to have good hypo sensitivity.
I hope you enjoy those weddings plus a few drinks.
Thanks for the response.I would also just check that no one was kindly buying doubles for you instead of singles. But I would tend to agree with NicoleC1971 about lightweight drinkers. But a lesson for all of us.
Best wishes
I can only manage a couple of glasses of red wine these days sadly. I'm also paranoid because my SiL's T1d cousin died in his mid 30s in his sleep and it was put down to not waking with a hypo. He'd been out for drinks and a curry with friends the night before.
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