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8 Responses to If alcohol lowers blood sugar why don’t Diabetics use it to control high blood sugar?
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1. Bailey_Orlova
   Comment by Bailey_Orlova | 2010/07/29 at 07:41:59

   Semen lowers blood pressure but people with high blood pressure don’t use it, do they?
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2. ?
   Comment by ? | 2010/07/29 at 08:21:59

   I’m not sure. I think it’s tricky. My friend started drinking a little after he started diabetes and still wasn’t down with the ins and outs of it. Something like he would drink and his sugar would be low so he could eat but then it would get abnormally high like the lowness caused by the alcohol was temporary or something.

   Or he could have been just a noob with his food. But we like ran tests some nights with food and alcohol and couldn’t come to any conclusions. So we just left it as "it’s tricky"

   We didn’t get super scientific with it…. afterall we were drinking ;] but yeah that’s all i have to offer
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3. emery p
   Comment by emery p | 2010/07/29 at 08:54:59

   alcohol can lower blood sugar by inhibiting your liver from producing glucose.however you Still have to eat and you can’t stay half lit all the time.plus mixing alcohol and food (alcohol has a lot of calories by the way) tend to make you gain weight ,fat which tends to make you more insulin resistant, which then makes it even harder to control your sugar. exercise and diet best way to control sugar + meds if needed
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4. americanhustler420
   Comment by americanhustler420 | 2010/07/29 at 09:21:59

   * While moderate amounts of alcohol can cause blood sugar to rise, excess alcohol can actually decrease your blood sugar level — sometimes causing it to drop into dangerous levels.
   * Beer and sweet wine contain carbohydrates and may raise blood sugar.
   * Alcohol stimulates your appetite, which can cause you to overeat and may affect your blood sugar control.
   * Alcohol can interfere with the positive effects of oral diabetes medicines or insulin.
   * Alcohol may increase triglyceride levels.
   * Alcohol may increase blood pressure.
   * Alcohol can cause flushing, nausea, increased heart rate, and slurred speech.

   most beers, wines and liquors contain HIGH amounts of sugar and carbs. most doctors (like mine) recommend if your going to drink, make sure your sugar is controlled at a good level and u drink a low carb drink i.e. michelob ultra. there are other beers that are specifically targeted for diabetics also.
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   http://diabetes.webmd.com/drinking-alcohol

5. ?
   Comment by ? | 2010/07/29 at 09:58:59

   Theyp probbably could, but they’d be so drunk and addicted to every kind of alcohol that insulin is probably the better bet…
   plus human insulin has the same chemical structure as the insulin your pancreas makes. it’s probably more compatible with you than drinking.
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6. butterflygal291
   Comment by butterflygal291 | 2010/07/29 at 10:28:59

   I’ve never drunk alcohol but I’ve been told that it causes your sugars to spike then crash later on. It can really mess with them. The side affects wouldn’t be worth it either and it wouldn’t be very reliable.
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7. Don M
   Comment by Don M | 2010/07/29 at 11:18:59

   OK, here’s the deal. Stuff metabolizes in different orders.

   Alcohol
   Sugars (simple carbs)
   Complex carbs
   Fats
   Proteins

   The problem is not that alcohol lowers blood sugar. It’s that you get your shot, and instead of metabolizing carbs to "even it out", you metabolize the alcohol. Because this does nothing to raise your blood sugar, the insulin is acting "alone" and your sugar drops. 4 hours later, when the alcohol is beginning to work its way out of the metabolic process, AND YOU HAVE GOTTEN NO ADDITIONAL INSULIN, the carbs kick in. Then your sugar skyrockets.

   All this, PLUS your head is F’d up and you can’t really make an intelligent decision about what to do now that you’re going low.

   Great, isn’t it? Impaired judgment (low BG) + impaired judgment (alcohol) = ????

   Hope this helps.
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   Experience. Type 1 for 37 years, used to try to manage alcohol in that mix but gave it up a long time ago.

8. xaxorm
   Comment by xaxorm | 2010/07/29 at 11:58:59

   No, alcohol blocks the effectiveness of the liver at releasing glucose, but only temporarily. And it damages the liver as it does so. Insulin is the medication to use. Anyway, you’d be drunk all the time.
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