Diabetes and alcohol blood sugar
Common Questions and Answers about Diabetes and alcohol blood sugar
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Yes, alcohol affects blood sugar level - Each and Every time it's consumed.
that being said,
High blood sugar and high blood alcohol content would be 2 separate elements measured in Your blood.
80% of the alcohol from EVERY drink goes directly to the blood stream and, THAT is why You have high blood alcohol content. Four drinks would put everyones' blood alcohol above the legal limit
Alcohol is harmful to the body - as is diabetes.
The causes of diabetes are often very complex; what is important is what you do about it. 9.0 (162) is definitely diabetic level blood sugar. What did your doctor tell you?As Sally says, you need to get more information from him, a clear diagnosis and treatment plan. But if you have Type 2 diabetes, the key to proper management of blood sugar is healthy eating, exercise, weight loss if needed and perhaps oral meds.
I personally can drink beer but I am sure to check levels often, have snacks on hand (since alcohol does naturally lower your blood sugar) and I only take half my nighttime insulin as I was often waking up with very low sugars in the middle of the night.
My advice is to take it easy. I'm sure for you and your friends it's exciting and fun but always keep in mind you are (in the best way hehe) different from your friends and a little more fragile.
This is why drinking on an empty stomach can lead to very low blood sugar. Alcohol can cause low blood sugar for up to 12 hours after drinking.
Alcohol is also full of empty calories and adds no nutrition to your meal so if weight is a problem, cutting back on alcohol would be a good place to start. Some diabetes problems/ complications can become even worse like blood pressure and triglycerides when alcohol is involved.
Hi Bhaity,
My suggestion is to replace the battery on your blood sugar testing machine, and to modify your diet to eat less carbs and sugars and control how much alcohol and snacks you consume. This should go a long way towards helping blood sugar and your overall health.
You could also see your Dr. for a checkup so you can assess your baseline health condition.
Mr Gatorade is wrong, unfortunately, about alcohol and diabetes. Although most alcoholic drinks will raise your blood sugar due to their calorific content, it will afterwards drop, sometimes significantly, when the alcohol kicks in. This means, that if you do decide to drink alcohol, make sure you eat something with it, and drink a non alcoholic beverage with carbohydrates, like orange juice, afterwards.
My son has complained (not often) of his legs feeling weak when his blood sugar is low. My sister has had episodes of low blood sugar where she could not get up and said she felt like her legs did not work. After consuming some sugar, it still can take sometime to feel better. (My sister gave up alcohol, but is a cigarette smoker who is trying to quit.)
The weak feeling you are experiencing could definitely be due to hypoglycemia.
Plain old alcohol will lower your blood sugar. Mixers, beer and wine have other components which will raise your blood sugar. My grandparents have been heavy drinkers for 50+ years despite diabetes, but they both tested rigorously to know their reaction to everything involved (food eaten, insulin, oral meds) INTIMATELY.
Now I will point out that Grampa has managed to bottom out many a time, due to his martini not being accompanied by food.
Another thing that caught my attention (and how I ultimately got started down my path of research) was a possible correlation between frequent yeast infections and blood sugar levels. The pieces all seem to fit together when I look at them collectively.
I do plan on visiting my doctor to get my blood sugar checked. I was just curious if anyone had any information on this. Sometimes I think that my addiction to alcohol just makes me a walking medical disaster.
Hello
These are only 'deadly diseases' if they are not properly managed. If they are well managed they should not impact significantly on having a long healthy life.
First:-
You need to optimize treatment of both.
For BP this will mean regular exercise (daily), weight normalization if you are overweight, and eating an unprocessed low carb, moderate protein and high (healthy) fats diet. Medication should be used if lifestyle measures alone cannot control the bp.
so, i've heard lots of things about diabete's with marijuana or alcohol, so now i want some facts. i've heard that alcohol can make your blood sugar go low but i thought it turned into sugar very fast so it would make my blood sugar high?
i've allso heard of people going low while smoking marijuana, which could be because they have had a over dose. or is the weed causing this? this information would be helpfull before i try marijuana for safety resons.
I am a type 1 and I do drink on occasion I do have to be careful of watching for low blood sugars and I have to take the sugar intake into consideration as well as carbs. But I went over that stuff with my Dr. he should really ask his Dr.
as to the smoking any time a person quits its a good for them regardless of them being a diabetic or not. I am not to clear on your questions of "How can we cure or prevent and implications? " did you mean about the smoking or just his diabetes ?
I don't understand how alcohol can cause hypoglycemina in diabetics. It seems to me that it would cause hyperglycemia because of the sugar in the alcohol. I just heard a story of an adult who passed out twice because she had wine after taking insulin. Her blood sugar was 175 when she took her insulin and within 15 minutes she was passed out.
I'm surprised they will treat him if he's still drinking and doing Crack Cocaine. Cure rates aside, do you think he will be able to comply with treatment in his present condition? It's really rough and demands medications to be taken on time. And then his blood sugar levels, no doubt partly because of the drinking. I just don't see a happy ending here whether he starts treatment or not.
Combining alcohol and diabetic medications could cause him to develop low blood sugar while passed out from the Xanax and alcohol. Low blood sugar can lead to seizures and death.
Even if your husband does not die, the following may happen:
1. Drinking will tend to raise his blood pressure, and he already has a blood pressure problem.
2. In some diabetics, even moderate drinking (more than two drinks a week) causes nerve and/or eye damage.
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hey, I heard that drinking alchohol can lower blood sugar. So if my blood sugar was a little high, would it be alright to drink some alcohol? Also, is it alright to drink alcohol? if so what kinds? is beer better? Whats the most one with diabetes can drink in a certain period? is drinking with diabetes the same as drinking with diabetes(effect of drinking)?
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Dear melgonzales64,
i am a diabetic like you and not a doctor or medical professional. Alcohal has many different effects on diabetics which is why the American Diabetes Association recomends diabetics only drink two drinks a day. If you take insulin for the alcohol it will just lower your blood sugar since alcohol doesn't need insulin for it to be digested.
Hi, and sorry you have a moderately high blood sugar, and triglycerides. These things can definitely be controlled by diet and exercise (provided the blood sugar problem is not genetic. Drinking alcohol and not exercising will raise your triglycerides. Also eating junk food and a lot of sugary foods can raise your blood sugar too. You sound like you are normally vegetarian? or eat better? Are your blood sugar values and triglycerides usually normal? If so get back on your normal diet.
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