Before this started, I used to love a beer or 2 at the weekends or occasionally go out with a friend and have a couple.
I cant tolerate alcohol at all now, its as if the receptors that used to give me that “merry” feeling are not working. It just makes me groggy and sick.
Has anyone else noticed this ? I suppose you are off alcohol with your MAV diet ?
Another pleasure gone.
This really does suck
Afraid so. Beer is long gone for the most part though I slipped one in 2 weeks ago.
I steal a few sips of my GFs white wine and may have a mojito once a year but that’s it.
S
Are you taking any meds that might be causing your alcohol sensitivity? Some don’t play well together.
Bummer…
Alcohol, except for red wine, isn’t a trigger for me, but I"m not a big drinker anyway.
Kelley
I used to drink alot when I was in my late teens…but I ALWAYS threw it up. Now looking back, I see that it was most likely a Migraine reaction for me! Haven’t touched the stuff in 30 years! I know what you mean though, it’s like you just keep adding to the “can’t have or will feel like poop” column!!! Does get a little depressing.
Pam
Other than the vertigo jolts and dizziness and being off balance, not being able to relax and loosen up with a drink is the most depressing part of this whole thing! I’m right there with you! I used to drink on the weekends and have fun with my friends and after the birth of my second child (when all theses strange issues slowly started creeping up on me) I started to realize that I slowly started losing my tolerance to alcohol. If I have one drink at 6pm I will feel hungover and sick to my stomach by bedtime! It’s god awful and it makes me so angry! I mean, I guess I’ll never have another hangover which is good but my friends don’t understand why I won’t have even 1 glass of wine with them. It also is making me so anti-social! Some days I just want to cry! Now that i’m on Verapamil (that is barely working) I wonder if I am even allowed to drink? You are not alone that is for sure. I pray that we all get better one day. My Doctor is convinced that I’m going to get better. I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel!! Just keep pushing forward\
Leslie
I can’t drink alcohol any more either. It’s always tended to be a migraine trigger for me, but has got a lot worse in the last year or two, and now I find it also makes my balance a lot worse, and it takes days to recover. I’ve not drunk any alcohol at all for over a year. It’s just not worth it. I don’t miss it all that much anymore on a day-to-day basis, but occasionally I still miss it.
Looking back alcohol intolerance was one of the first symptoms for me. I’ve never been able to drink as much as all my friends. Ever, even in college. I could never understand why I’d get so hungover so easily. Any more than 2 glasses of wine and I would be deathly sick the next day. I’ve even talked to my Dr. about it and had my liver enzymes checked to see if something was wrong with my liver. Of course it’s fine. I’ve never been a heavy drinker but I’ve found that now with MAV it’s even worse. I still try to have the occasional glass of white wine with dinner or at a party and sometimes I feel ok but usually it just makes me more foggy headed or tired. I can’t remember the last time I got a nice buzz. It’s been at least 2 years.
It’s another one of those things that makes me feel “abnormal”. Especially during the holidays when everyone else is having a good time and I have to leave the party at 9:00. Fun stuff.
Like Scott, I take a taste of my sweetie’s drink. Certainly not enough to get me high or mellowed, but really enough to enjoy the taste.
Try to think of it as Another Way to Improve My Health and Avoid Evil MAV, rather than giving something up. I haven’t fully convinced myself yet but if nothing else at least i can laugh at my own naff little goody-goody story :roll: When my health does improve after abstinence it’s easier to feel good about Healthier Lifestyle Choices. Sometimes i even say those words in a television voice, just to crack myself up at how reformed i feel and sound.
Have always enjoyed good bars, clubs, decent liquor, indecent liquor and smoking. I hardly know myself anymore! Like a replicant left behind after an alien abduction.
Tell you what, Sydney’s Sake restaurant make seriously awesome mocktails. I even sipped mine as though it really contained alcohol, it was that good.
I have to update this thread and say that over the holidays I drank a ton of white wine. Sometimes I woke the next day with a banging headache and sometimes I was ok. Things were definitely worse without a break. So two nights in a row on the white wine didn’t do me much good.
Squeezed in two nights on the Bombay Sapphire gin. Yum. Sometimes I think the tonic is a bigger problem than the gin!
S
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Squeezed in two nights on the Bombay Sapphire gin. Yum.
S
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Mmmmm. Gin & tonic, my favorite! I’m finding that I can finally enjoy alcohol again, and I’m quite happy about it! Although I only drink once or twice a month, and never more than two drinks at a time–if I overdo it I’m surely going to pay for it the next day!
True, I’ve never been a big drinker, but those two times I got drunk last year…well, i was fine WHILE i was drinking the alcohol, but the next day, I woke up with (thankfully mild!) the spins. My hangovers were always worse than most people, even years before these symptoms started, but i never felt particularly dizzy from hangovers until last year.
Scott beware that bombay is dangerous!!! Sneaks up on you! (Not in an MAV way) 2 drinks and I am toast…but its good stuff!!!
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Before this started, I used to love a beer or 2 at the weekends or occasionally go out with a friend and have a couple. I cant tolerate alcohol at all now, its as if the receptors that used to give me that “merry” feeling are not working. It just makes me groggy and sick. Has anyone else noticed this ?
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I think a few of my symptoms are not typical of this group so something else may be happening inside me than happens in other people. I definitely find that alcohol helps my balance.
Maybe you’re talking about heavier drinking than I do as I am a very light drinker. If I am having a brain fog (and that usually means I have unsteady balance) then as little as a small glass of wine helps. It takes about 40 minutes before the improvement takes place.
I tend to suspect the improvement is due to alcohol dealing with some other problem occurring in my brain. Just speculating: I may be experiencing chronic delirium with low choline & high dopamine giving rise to inattention and all sorts of confusional feelings which can get to be very severe. Maybe the alcohol is having an effect somewhere which changes the levels of those chemicals. Alternatively perhaps the alcohol improves overall brain function by acting as an arterial vasodilator? All that is a speculation … but the bottom line is that a little alcohol definitely helps.
-Wexan
I’m right there with Elisha- in college would have a few drinks and would spin like none other in the night and be hung over the next day-blah! the thought of alcohol makes me sick to my stomach but wish i could have an escape from my reality…
the thrill is gone here
and sadly, i dont really even ike the taste anymore