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It started out like any other Friday

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bkkMick

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Friday started quite well for me. Three hours after breakfast (sausage, two bacon and an egg) I took a reading at it was 4.8. That's really low for me and I was quite happy.

I had a small lunch (rice, meat and veg) at around 3pm and that's all I ate. I had a number of cups of coffee and green tea.

Now this is the stupid part, I know, so please, no preaching.

I went out for my normal Friday. Drinks with some friend then meet up with my wife and her friends. Normal night, felt great. But I did drink a lot of beer (and some whiskey towards the end of the night). This is where a good Friday night ends. While leaving, walking down the stairs in the pub (which I have walked down hundreds of times over the years) something happened and I fell. I know that I'd had a lot to drink but I've never even stumbled down those stairs before.

I ended up at the bottom of the stairs unconcious. My friends bundled me into a car and took me to a local hospital. My wife told the doctor that I was diabetic and he took a BG reading, which was 10.8!!

Lots of tests at the hospital, three stiches in my head and 40,000 baht later I left hospital the next day.

I was wondering if my low start to the day followed by a lot of beer could have led to a hypo when I got up from the table to go home and how come my BG had shot up to 10.8!?

Again, I know I was stupid and it won't happen again (hopefully).

Finally (and it's a warning to all diabetics out there) I must get some kind of diabetic id as I ended up in hospital with no id/indication that I was diabetic.
 
Hi Mick.
Hmmmm ??

I think the drink might have been the deciding factor here.
Alcohol in moderation is OK, it sounds like you were not drinking in moderation and by the sound of things on an empty stomach. As you found, that is a recipe for disaster. It doesn't matter how many times you have walked down the stairs, the drink will have affected your co-ordination no doubt. 10.8 is not a hypo, what you drank put you up to that level which is Hyperglycaemic.

As an ex cop I have seen many a drunk in my time, all seemed keen to tell me they were stone cold sober......I'm not thunk occifer. :lol: All wanting to blame their trip or stumble on anything but the drink. I don't think it's the Diabetes Mick, you have to cut down.

You know it makes sense.... :D
 
Sounds like a case of "PAFO" = P****d And Fell Over, as written on Accident & Emergency Department boards, which happens lots, regardless of diabetes. Since seeing a few cases myself, I have never been too drink to get myself home safely, on foot, bike, by taxi, of lift with sober friend - and this didn't change when I got typ1 1 diabetes as a young adult.
You next drinking session is your next chance to practice safe drinking!
 
Beer is high in sugar.
Alcohol lowers your sugar, but not as much as to balance out the sugar that is in the beer.
You were drunk, that's why you fell over lol. Nothing to be surprised about.
Once i couldn't even get my shoes off. They didn't even have buckles... just elastic straps.
Still couldn't get them off.

No hypo, just drunk. You had a high blood sugar because there is a lot of sugar in beer.
Sugar gets turned into alcohol, a high alcohol content means not a lot of sugar left in it.
Beer has a low alcohol content, so there is still alot of sugar from the grains that hasn't been converted.

Next time, stick to high contect stuff, or low carb beer.
Personally, Kahlua and a little coke, or Malibu and OJ does me just fine.
As well as a good single malt.

Learning experience - and 'ha ha'..... you fell over drunk :P
As did 85% of the rest of the population.
 
As others have said, alcohol was the problem, not diabetes. Ha ha, very funny, but think about the consequences.

My non-diabetic brother did something similar. He was walking home alone. He fell on concrete steps and fractured his skull. By the time a friend came along, he was dead. If he'd survived, he'd probably have been permanently disabled.

You were lucky and I hope you'll learn your lesson. Please don't risk putting your friends and family through what my family went through.
 
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