First time drinking since diagnosis - what to do?

It has been sometime since my binge drinking days , but as I was diabetic across my teenage years and university, I do have quite a lot of experience. The answer is (as usual) it depends - on what you drink, an on how much activity the day entails (even needing to wander around to get to places would make me run low cf a normal day and it's not like I was inactive on a normal day rushing around uni between lectures, etc.)

For cider, I would need to inject across the day, though I'd not bother until I see which way things are going after the first pint or two (unless there's a massive rise) - the activity required to get to the ground, etc., would certainly give me low blood sugar getting there so I'd be drinking to correct that and then looking at corrections thereafter - play these by ear rather than working from exact carb content (which are annoyingly not on the cans either), might be worth having something to eat to hand if you get this initial bit wrong. Even if you start trending low it will almost certainly come back up in the initial stages of a day out as the carbs are going to give you a rise whatever happens.

For lager/ale, it might need an initial correction (similar to the cider above) but thereafter I'd probably not need/bother to correct much/at all as the day goes on. I would typically find I'd run low and would need to be eating through the day to avoid this (which is probably a good thing for the subsequent hangover too.)

Something like Guinness would probably not require any corrections at all, same for wine (unless sweet/white/fizzy, in which case look at cider).

Aside from the case of cider (etc), which makes me go high no matter how long I drink it for (and it produces awful hangovers too), I would be careful about IoB and not over-correct, as you may then need to leave the ground and need to walk some decent distance to find a curry or similar, pretty much as soon as I get up to go I'd start dropping so wouldn't want vast amounts of IoB (to need to deal with).

Overnight I'd almost certainly end up running low, so basal reduction perhaps (depending on when you do this) and definitely an uncovered bedtime snack (bowl of cereal, etc., 30-40g COH I'd guess, though perhaps a little less if currently high - certainly enough to push me up into slightly high territory, which will then drop during the night.)

Tell your friends what to look out for and tell them to force you to stop/eat/etc. (if this approach works for you, sometimes we don't want to be told what to do when hypo, you and indeed they will probably know what works best)

To sum up, take some emergency hypo treatments (and indeed look out for stuff to eat during the day too), don't be too worried about close control, don't over-correct, beware of going low overnight post-all-day drinking (I'd have an uncovered pre-bed snack and if I run high, it's only one night, better than going hypo away from home, or indeed at all)

Have fun, let us know how you get on.

P.S. When I was out drinking I had been diabetic for ~10y+ so I wasn't in the honeymoon, I don't know how this will affect things - probably by your needing less insulin, though I don't know, it was a very long time ago and I don't know if it was even "a thing" back then.

Probably too late for tomorrow but I wear a medic alert bracelet at all times so ambulance crew or other medical staff know immediately that I am on insulin.

Been a long time since my drinking years but after a few **** ups I came to he conclusion. That it was better for me to only take insulin for any food I ate , as my sugars initially went up the after booze dropped like a stone so I decided I would let my sugars rise for a relatively short period and deal with them once my “ bender” had finished