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Boozing
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Hi,
Difficult to advise, another similar question to this in a different thread suggests we really differ in how we react to alcohol and to which type.
Myself ale sends me high very quick so I bolus 1.5u for a pint with Novorapid. Also reducing my basal or even skip it (probably not advised).
I’d suggest to see what drinking a half does to you and react to that.
Having toast before bed sounds like good advice without knowing how you’d react. You don’t want a hypo while not in the best of states.
Difficult to advise, another similar question to this in a different thread suggests we really differ in how we react to alcohol and to which type.
Myself ale sends me high very quick so I bolus 1.5u for a pint with Novorapid. Also reducing my basal or even skip it (probably not advised).
I’d suggest to see what drinking a half does to you and react to that.
Having toast before bed sounds like good advice without knowing how you’d react. You don’t want a hypo while not in the best of states.
If you do need a bedtime snack I'd not bolus for it (I always used to need one when a student and out lots, but different insulins so hard to compare) and if you're already high don't have a snack, but hard to know whether to try to correct it. Depends how high I think - I'd probably do a small correction if above 11 mmol/l, but no where as much as I'd normally need - the worst that will happen is that you run high overnight and learn something about how alcohol affects you, which is much better than going hypo while drunk and asleep!
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