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I was told when diabetics drink our blood sugar goes really his then really low

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Originally Posted by sdupo

I have 4-6 crown and coks daily after work. On weekends I have more. My blood sugars have never been affected by either slight or extreme drunkenness. My doctor approves and drinks with me on Tuesday nights. He often has too much, but we have never tested his BG because he is not diabetic. YET!! He only works half a day and exercises very little. He is overweight and lacks personal grooming skills. But he says daily alcohol consumption flushes out the system. I feel great and my blood sugars run 70-100. I see no reason why heavy drinking should compromise anyone's diabetic control. Good luck.

Pure alcohol in larger dozes lowers blood sugar and there is nothing to dispute that fact, I'm not talking about drinking gallons of light beer or wine. As you get drunk you’re getting numb and the body will not feel a low going into hypo. Thus it's easy to fall asleep drunk and not waking up again, ever. As a T1 one could enjoy alcohol but NEVER to the point that one is "hammered".

Daily alcohol to "flush system" means about 4centiliters tops. To have a doctor who drinks with you to that level should say, hey, my doctor might have a problem and I may get another one.

[hkridgway]

In my experience, I go high if I don't shoot-up for beer carbs - it's rare I drink so many beers I crash.
But wine, and liquor, if it isn't mixed with syrups, lowers by BG - sometimes dramatically, and usually after I've gone to bed. Fortunately, I wake up in a sweaty panic, eat a teaspoon of honey with a glass of water, change my clothes and go back to sleep.

This was actually my exact reaction after my first beer, on insulin!

But it seems I've "acclimated" somehow? Now I under-shoot a bit if I am eating with my alcohol, like festive parties, or dinners; I go to bed preferably somewhere over 140mg/dl, and wake up in range. I usually need to eat breakfast pretty immediately after waking up, but no more sweaty panic nights unless I really wasn't paying attention and over doing it. And I've come to treat beer like food, 'cause that's how it seems to work in my system

Most people who don't think diabetics should drink are thinking all diabetics have sever kidney/liver damage. True - it may happen eventually, but as long as your liver and kidneys are still in good shape, alcohol isn't doing you any more harm than anyone else My only fear is the fact that low-blood-sugar and being drunk have such similar symptoms - I'd hate for my blood-sugar to go low at a time when I couldn't figure out that's what was happening and neglect to input carbs. Probably better to err on the side of eating too many pretzels, though sometimes I wake up high from a hand on automatic pilot at the pretzel bowl!

Cheers!

[natalielundqvist]

I didn't read all the comments But what happens is that alcohol containing sugar, with Will higher your bs. But when the lever then breaking down the alcohol (which is à poison) the lever can't give you any glucose during the night as i normally does. That's why the bs may drop during the night. My bs is often up to 20-25 when i drink, and even if i don't ever take any insulin then, My bs goes down to 2 or 3 during the night st least 1 time