# First overnight low

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/first-overnight-low/2535>\
**Category:** New T1/LADA\
**Tags:** hypoglycemia\
**Created:** [November 2, 2017, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/first-overnight-low/2535 "2017-11-02T07:19:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![CatLady](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/catlady/32/36_2.png) [@CatLady](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CatLady)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/first-overnight-low/2535/41 "2017-11-03T21:30:58Z")

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Alcohol affects my blood sugar the next morning, i.e., instead of 1:8 for breakfast I need 1:10 or even 1:12 for carbs! Or a lower temporary basal, now that I am on a pump.

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**Author:** ![Beacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@Beacher](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Beacher)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/first-overnight-low/2535/42 "2017-11-03T22:09:28Z")

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Reassuring! I was starting to think I was a freak of nature.

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**Author:** ![TravelingOn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/travelingon/32/1583_2.png) [@TravelingOn](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/TravelingOn)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/first-overnight-low/2535/43 "2017-11-04T02:41:10Z")

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> [@Thomas](#):
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> Didn’t they even get their own TV show a few years back?

Yes! It was fascinating, although mostly if it was muted. The personification was a bit much.

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**Author:** ![Jen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/jen/32/4777_2.png) [@Jen](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Jen)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/first-overnight-low/2535/44 "2017-11-04T14:13:00Z")

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I don’t drink often because dealing with the effects of alcohol is just too annoying and it’s an easy factor to avoid. Plus, I don’t like the taste of alcohol, and all the good-tasting drinks are full of sugar and I can never cover them properly without massive spikes. So now I have one drink perhaps once a year and that’s it.

I did drink more often (and get drunk) in university, though. At the time I was on NPH and had an A1c in the 8s and no real idea of how alcohol affected me. I was probably lucky I didn’t have any serious lows, since I had a very strong dawn phenomenon. It wasn’t until I started on Lantus and was aiming for tighter control that alcohol became more annoying and not worth the hassle for me.

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**Author:** ![Thomas](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/thomas/32/1719_2.png) [@Thomas](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Thomas)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/first-overnight-low/2535/45 "2017-11-04T15:43:52Z")

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Since I first had kids (about a bizzillion years ago) I just don’t have the time for the drinking and the recovery.

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