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- Type of diabetes
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Hi everyone - this is my first post on the forum (though I've been reading them for a few weeks).
I've been type 1 diabetic for over 15 years. and have recently noticed an odd symptom with alcohol over the past couple of years. I know the expected behaviour of alcohol is to decrease blood sugar levels, and this is what used to happen to me. But in recent years, I've found that consuming alcohol - even very small amounts - causes my sugars to rise in the middle of the night. I'm talking 12 mmol/l+.
Should point out that I've been carbing the drinks I've been having (eg: beer), or they are carb free (eg: vodka and diet coke). So it's not the drinks themselves. And this can happen even just with one.
Have been researching online and there are some examples of the liver pumping out adrenaline as it processes alcohol, so it could be this - but I'm curious if anyone else has this problem?
I'd previously always be wary of my sugars after drinking in case they dropped, etc - but I now I never need to, and it's making me want to stop drinking entirely .
I've been type 1 diabetic for over 15 years. and have recently noticed an odd symptom with alcohol over the past couple of years. I know the expected behaviour of alcohol is to decrease blood sugar levels, and this is what used to happen to me. But in recent years, I've found that consuming alcohol - even very small amounts - causes my sugars to rise in the middle of the night. I'm talking 12 mmol/l+.
Should point out that I've been carbing the drinks I've been having (eg: beer), or they are carb free (eg: vodka and diet coke). So it's not the drinks themselves. And this can happen even just with one.
Have been researching online and there are some examples of the liver pumping out adrenaline as it processes alcohol, so it could be this - but I'm curious if anyone else has this problem?
I'd previously always be wary of my sugars after drinking in case they dropped, etc - but I now I never need to, and it's making me want to stop drinking entirely .