T1 stag do abroad

[pab99c]

Hi

I'm a T1 and its my stag do shortly, we're going abroad. I've been on a few stag dos before and managed to control sugars okay. But this time I'm centre stage. So chances are high that I'm going to be, err, merry quite a lot of the time. Perhaps even, quite sozzled.

Any top tips for me as a nervous stag..

I'll be stocking up on dextro tablets and plenty of insulin.. But still.. A bit nervous!

Any one been through similar and have any useful tips?

 

[catapillar]

Make sure your best man knows what a drunk diabetic needs - I'm assuming he probably does! Maybe consider wearing a discrete medical alert bracelet with "type 1 diabetic" in Spanish or Greek or which ever is appropriate. But that's probably a bit unnecessary, I'm sure your mates (as well as getting you merry, and possibly shaving off an eyebrow) are going to want to make sure you are alright, prompt you to test and eat something carby before going to sleep - maybe tell your best man that you really won't be offended and think he's nagging if he does that when you might be worse for wear.

 

[pab99c]

Good advice! Thank you. Definitely need to give the best man a bit of a brief! On both nagging me to test regularly and not to shave my eyebrows.

 

[isjoberg]

Depending on how used to your friends are with you drinking, hopefully your best man has a rough idea of what is normal behaviour for you whilst drunk! Ask them to schedule food breaks, and get a good meal in you before you head out and small things throughout the night within my friends I'm notorious for demanding food stops if it's been a long day of drinking! Another thing which could be a good idea (or was at least for me at the end of university celebrations) was giving someone else who may be a little more responsible and not in the centre of attention a spare snack/other things, in case you lose what you have.

Hope you have fun and don't worry too much about it!