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<blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 107871" data-attributes="member: 11712"><p>It can be normal being high in when you're drinking, more so if you are drinking beer or larger then find that you have a large decrease by morning...</p><p></p><p>This is because while the liver is breaking down the alcohol it can't process or store glucogen (glucose) while the liver is processing the Alcohol the liver isn't putting any glucose into the blood stream, your husbands background/long acting insulin deals with this, the bacground insulin that your husband has injected to deal with whats coming off the liver will combine with quick acting insulin so to speak, giving the notion that the insulin has become more potent! It takes the liver on adverage 1 hour to process 1 unit of Alcohol..</p><p></p><p>He does need to work out his best method of controlling the highs while drinking, this could be injecting for the beer he's drinking then eating a carby snack before bed-time and remembering to keep a close eye on his levels the following day until all acohol is out of his sytem</p><p></p><p>But he does need to tread with caution otherwise he could have a very dangerous hypo, with no glucogen store in the liver, he's lost his back-up system as there is nothing to dump into the blood stream in an emergency to bring the sugar levels back to normal..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jopar, post: 107871, member: 11712"] It can be normal being high in when you're drinking, more so if you are drinking beer or larger then find that you have a large decrease by morning... This is because while the liver is breaking down the alcohol it can't process or store glucogen (glucose) while the liver is processing the Alcohol the liver isn't putting any glucose into the blood stream, your husbands background/long acting insulin deals with this, the bacground insulin that your husband has injected to deal with whats coming off the liver will combine with quick acting insulin so to speak, giving the notion that the insulin has become more potent! It takes the liver on adverage 1 hour to process 1 unit of Alcohol.. He does need to work out his best method of controlling the highs while drinking, this could be injecting for the beer he's drinking then eating a carby snack before bed-time and remembering to keep a close eye on his levels the following day until all acohol is out of his sytem But he does need to tread with caution otherwise he could have a very dangerous hypo, with no glucogen store in the liver, he's lost his back-up system as there is nothing to dump into the blood stream in an emergency to bring the sugar levels back to normal.. [/QUOTE]
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