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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoughcutAU" data-source="post: 2689312" data-attributes="member: 552779">It will be alot easier for you when you get an Insulin to Carb ratio and can dose accordingly instead of having to work backwards all the time. Definitely try and get on a DAFNE course when you can.Alcohol is a big curveball and we aren’t Saints so we all can’t avoid it … i know I don’t. Alcohol is one of those things that involves alot of trial and error. Cocktails are a bloody hard type of “poison” to dose for. Most spirits don’t contain carbs at all however its the mixers and the syrups that will get you. My own way of dealing with it is as the nurse suggested have a carby meal beforehand and then i dose less then i usually would for the amount of carbs in the cocktails/drink. (You probably can’t do this bit yet). I set my CGM alarm to 10mmol and wait for my 3am wake up call to give a correction after usually ending the night with a BGL around 5mmol.What happens with Alcohol is that the body wants to deal with it first as it is considered a toxin and stops making glucose. So after it has dealt with the alcohol it then starts to dump glucose into the bloodstream (hence my 3am alarm sounding when my BGL has reached 10mmol). Of course that is an incredibly unscientific explanation but hey it works for me and was well tested on a 2 week cruise i was recently on!</blockquote>

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