Sugar Turned On Me

During my recent vacation, I decided to try something I’d not done for a few months: drink booze. I’ve never been a huge barfly. I usually get a bit tipsy about once a year. Keeping in mind that I’m diabetic and that alcohol is sugar, I decided I needed to see how it affected me.

The first night was okay. I had a couple of rum drinks and I felt alright. I was sober again in a couple of hours. My blood sugar was just a few points off.

I skipped a night, but then had a lot of drinks the next one. I stopped about the time I noticed that the potables were not agreeing with my tummy.

The next morning, my blood sugar was about fifteen points higher than it needed to be and about ten than I was used to.

I’d love to say that this experience gave me a lot of keen insight on the interaction of diabetes and liquor, but in truth I can’t say it did. For one, I was drinking cranberry juice as a mixer. This was likely to have some effect on my numbers. Also, my drinking was kind of sporadic. I had a couple, then paused, had one more, then sampled stuff that my friends had.

I’d already been of a mind to try an experiment with some form of booze. Now I think I know what not to do. When I do it, I’ll post about it here.

To be continued….

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