DeusXM
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I know it's a real doctor-type question, but what is your control like?
I've got two theories. Firstly, if you have poorly controlled diabetes in general with a lot of high blood sugars, your kidneys are very busy filtering out glucose from your blood, which also dehydrates you. If this is the case, then it may be that alcoholic drinks enter your bloodstream more quickly as your body attempts to use them to rehydrate as quickly as possible. This might mean that a larger 'hit' of alcohol hits your blood and brain more quickly than in others.
The other thing is if your BG goes high as a result of the carbs in your drink without treatment. When my BGs are high, I get quite sluggish and irritable. I couldn't be mistaken for being drunk, but certainly my high blood sugar symptoms have some cross-overs. It may be that if your blood sugar is going up quite a bit when you drink, this then combines with the natural intoxication affect of the booze so you have say, mild 'proper' drunk symptoms combined with mild hyper drunk-like symptoms....which would equal 'appearing more drunk'.
I've got two theories. Firstly, if you have poorly controlled diabetes in general with a lot of high blood sugars, your kidneys are very busy filtering out glucose from your blood, which also dehydrates you. If this is the case, then it may be that alcoholic drinks enter your bloodstream more quickly as your body attempts to use them to rehydrate as quickly as possible. This might mean that a larger 'hit' of alcohol hits your blood and brain more quickly than in others.
The other thing is if your BG goes high as a result of the carbs in your drink without treatment. When my BGs are high, I get quite sluggish and irritable. I couldn't be mistaken for being drunk, but certainly my high blood sugar symptoms have some cross-overs. It may be that if your blood sugar is going up quite a bit when you drink, this then combines with the natural intoxication affect of the booze so you have say, mild 'proper' drunk symptoms combined with mild hyper drunk-like symptoms....which would equal 'appearing more drunk'.