High Energy Drinks

[Oscarbromley]

Hi everyone
I am type 2 and on no meds st moment, on Saturday I drank a litre bottle of high energy lucozade mistakenly bought thinking I had picked up zero.
Went out Saturday night and had two glasses of red wine and was totally out of my head and behaving manic - is this just what these drinks do to you or can this be some high sugar hypo connected to diabetes- **** wicked stuff and will never make that mistake again

 

[Lamont D]

Hi everyone
I am type 2 and on no meds st moment, on Saturday I drank a litre bottle of high energy lucozade mistakenly bought thinking I had picked up zero.
Went out Saturday night and had two glasses of red wine and was totally out of my head and behaving manic - is this just what these drinks do to you or can this be some high sugar hypo connected to diabetes- **** wicked stuff and will never make that mistake again

Because you have been on a reduced carbohydrate diet and avoiding these high energy drinks, your body will be more susceptible to the amount of quick acting glucose. The wine could exacerbate the way it usually deals with alcohol because of the glucose, hence the dizziness. Dizziness or lightheaded feeling, could be your blood glucose levels being put on a rollercoaster ride, from the lucozade.
If it is your intention to gain complete control of your blood glucose levels, then learn the lesson that soft drinks are not really beneficial to T2 diabetics, in any form, because even artificial sweeteners can have an effect.

And the only way you will learn what you put into your body is by testing.

 

[Alexandra100]

Hi everyone
I am type 2 and on no meds st moment, on Saturday I drank a litre bottle of high energy lucozade mistakenly bought thinking I had picked up zero.
Went out Saturday night and had two glasses of red wine and was totally out of my head and behaving manic - is this just what these drinks do to you or can this be some high sugar hypo connected to diabetes- **** wicked stuff and will never make that mistake again

My totally inexpert thought is that your poor body was torn between the hypo effects of the wine and the hyper effects of that huge, unaccustomed dose of sugar. My suggestion is that you become like me, an obsessive reader of labels. However, you are not the only person ever to suffer such a mishap. Dr Bernstein, International Treasure of world diabetes, author of the classic "Diabetes Solution" and at 84 (T1 since childhood) old enough to know better, recounts how he recently bought a crate of diet drinks, only to be caught out by a full-sugar one that had been put in by mistake. It took days of soaring bgs and a lot of head-scratching before he realised what was causing his problems.