Need help!

[Quavers]

Well here is my story,

On thursday or some day later I have been asked to go drinking with a couple of mates and have a couple of thoughts. This means beer and that sort of alcohol by the way. It will be my first time drinking after being diagnosed and the thing is I do wanna get drunk and have some fun, I mean you only live once right!

know about eating like chips because of the lowering effect it can have.
So any helpful advice or anything would be great

Cheers

 

[Fizzy]

Hi there,

I tend to drink as I wish (keeping in mind your sugars will rise and fall drastically) - I dont drink beer but drink allsorts. Just keep an eye on youor levels for the first few times and go overboard on the carbs the first few times.. then gradually lower the amount of carbs until it brings you into the right levels in the morning. Its all about trial and error and getting the hang of what your body needs to get you through a night of drinking.
You will get the hang of it eventually. I used to do the chips and burger thing after a night out and came in way to high in the mornings, i cut down gradually until all i really require is a bag of salt and vinegar crisp... but its different for everyone.

Hope this has helped a bit, if you need any more help give me a shout

Hayley x

 

[timo2]

hi Quavers,
I always find beer raises my sugars to begin with, then the next morning (if I've over done it)
my sugars come crashing down.
I also find it very difficult to know if I'm hypo when I'm hammered.
Now you're diabetic I'd recommend leaving the hell-raising to somebody else.

good luck,
timo.

 

[DiabeticGeek]

I have only very recently been diagnosed (Type II), so I certainly can't claim to be an expert on this. However, I had to face this issue immediately - quite literally the day after I got the news I was planning to go to a friends stag party - and even if one accepts modest drinking, getting hammered on a stag night is probably not a good idea.

I was tempted to either to put off the diet for a day or drop out of the party. However, ignoring the diet and drinking as normal would be really bad psychology (the problem with putting things off until tomorrow is that tomorrow never comes!) and as for not going... well, I must control this thing, I am determined that it will not control me. I also really didn't want to make a big announcement to my friends - not that I intend to be secretive about it, but the timing could have cast a real pall on the event and that would have been unfair to everyone. So, the only solution that I could think of was compromise. I started off by turning up late (it was a pub crawl from lunchtime to midnight) - I pleaded overwork and turned up at about 6pm. Then I had a pint when we arrived at each pub and thereafter mostly stuck to mineral water, interspersed with the odd half. I ended up drinking about four pints in the evening. Probably not ideal, but vastly less than what I would have drunk otherwise. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get through the wedding :?

 

[pixie]

when i first got type 1 diabetes i was told to stop drinking beer and start drinking vodka and diet mixers (with the occasional full-sugar mixer in between a few drinks). this started sending my sugars crashing like mad the next day, plus vodka tends to hit me hard after a few and then all hell breaks lose
i changed hospital recently and they are very thorough and very very helpful and they suggested that if i prefer beer to vodka that i should drink Coors Lite as its low sugar, low fat, same alcvohol as normal beer. i have been drinking coors lite for the past year and i find its grand on my sugars that night and pretty easy going on them the next day. Also, i'm not a messy drunk on it

 

[Stuboy]

one important thing to remember is to eat before you go to bed, like a sandwich or something carby.

While your sleeping your liver is concentrating on breaking down the alcohol and not really doing it's job trickling glucose into your system when sugar drops a little in your sleep. so you basically turn your stomach into a glucose resevior with some carbs to give your liver a change to work on the alcohol...

All this i was told by my D-specialist educator... and it does work! (for me at least)

 

[AmberAnn]

My nurse said drinking Vodka was okay...but not with J20 which is/was my favourite tipple..so switched to soda and lime with my vodka..but a lot less now....