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Originally Posted by DeusXM  Seconded. You can drink with diabetes (god knows, I do!) but drying out until you figure out exactly what is wrong with you is the best thing to do, and then you can reintroduce alcohol. Smoking is an unhealthy move. |
Thirded? Is that a word? I also enjoy drinking and will have a glass of wine or beer almost every day at dinner. I've also been known to drink in excess every so often. BUT, I had diabetes a long time before I started to drink, and had a handle on the basics of D management before introducing a new variable (alcohol) to the equation. Even so it took me a long time and a lot of high and low bgs to figure out how to drink without messing up my bg too badly. Get yourself stabilized and learn how your body works WITHOUT drink, and then you can figure out how to make your diabetes work when you reintroduce the drink.
Nobody thinks smoking is healthy, for anybody. You already know this, having lived on this planet and been exposed to radio/ tv / advertisements. IMHO it's not worse for a well controlled diabetic than for a regular person, BUT with D the cards are already stacked against you and you're adding another risk factor by smoking.
You probably have diabetes, but the only way to know for sure is to get yourself "clean" and have your doctors test you without all of the complicating factors impacting your blood sugar.
