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as its obviously christmas I have been drinking alcohol,
Last night I only had 2 vodka and diet cokes (vodka was in 25ml shots) and then just diet coke as I hate the taste of normal coke
I done my usual 3 injections a day but before I went to bed my blood sugar was about 8.7, I had a sandwhich before I went to bed but I still had a hypo of 2.8 about 4am this morning :evil:

Should I tone down my insulin doses a bit or eat more carbs?
 
Don't know as I am a type 2 but it sounds as though you enjoyed yourself and its probably for just the once (apart from 31Dec/1 Jan of course) so perhaps it hasn't done any harm. It sounds as though you were very reasonable anyway. I'm sure you will be able to work out which is the best solution for you now, with your experience. I don't know that you will get much advice on here this afternoon - this morning there was a monitor who could have helped you but now he's doing the same as everyone else :wink: ...(and so he should!) It really depends on what your levels are now so you can act accordingly. I had plenty too but am not shloshed and it was red wine so I told myself it was for medicinal purposes. Plus rum on the Christmas pud. And brandy in the brandy butter (very good though had artificial sweetner instead of sugar)...Merry Christmas anyway and don't let this spoil it for you.
 
Just popped in again........

If drinking you need to know how the Alcohol can affect you.........

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-and-alcohol.html

People with diabetes need to be extra careful with alcohol. Alcohol significantly increases the risk of hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar levels). If your diabetes is already well under control, a moderate amount of alcohol may be fine either before, during or soon after a meal.
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The most important thing to remember is that alcohol can produce delayed hypos.
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Basically the Liver is dealing with the Alcohol (Toxin) at the expense of everything else, once it has dealt with that it then starts to deal with the Glucose in your blood. Hence the reason why you can get a hypo several hours later.

Have a read here which is an extract from the DAFNE (T1) Handbook regarding Alcohol and Insulin.

http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/easdec/prevent ... lcohol.htm
 
cugila said:
http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/easdec/prevent ... lcohol.htm
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Thanks that website was quite usefull, Ive just had a slice of cake instead of adjusting my dose as i cant be bothered with the maths today my brain hurts from this rather heated debate my family had earlier


@daisy1 Hehe, its the festive season, The only worry I have is my birthday and new year for the next few days as my friends are taking me on a pub crawl for my 18th so im gonna have to go shopping and stock up on the jelly babies and snacks as if i passed out from low blood sugar an ambulance would take at least 30mins to get there and I havent been perscribed any glucagon for in those cases :shock:
 
Enjoy your birthday and be careful at the same time... :wink:
 
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