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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 299630" data-attributes="member: 11712">Diva what's happening when you drink and your blood plummet is this..When you drink alcohol, it's basically a poison that the liver needs to filter out of the blood...  But while it's doing this it can't process and maintain it's glucose emergency store, so it shuts this process down, and concentrates on removing the alcohol from the blood stream, and doesn't restart restocking the emergency glucose store of the liver until it's cleared all alcohol out of the blood stream..  On average it takes 1 hour for the liver to process 1 unit of alcohol!  The liver doesn't stop the constant dribble of glucose it delivers to the blood stream, this only stops when it's drained all it's stores..So when you start drinking, any carbs in the drink react same as any other carb on the blood glucose levels, as you've still got glucose entering your blood stream, but after a while this stops, and any insulin you've injected for cover the background needs (what's entering the blood stream from the liver) and any quick acting insulin combine together and all work on lowering the blood glucose, causing a very quick dropped in your blood glucose levels as you'll experiencing..Mind you this does mean pose several problems, as if you've find yourself in an hypo's that you can't self treat, you either have little or no emergency glucose backup store in your liver, which means that a Glucogen Jab won't work, as either there's no emergency store to dump or too little to bring your levels back up sufficiently, and you in this status quo until your liver's cleared all alcohol, and restocked itself..  So next day can be very dodgy when it comes to hypo's, So I don't bother any more, might have an glass of wine with a meal, but saying that in the last 2 years or so, I haven't even bothered with doing that!</blockquote>

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