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Posted by pru (Member # 9070) on :
 
Okay, first off happy mother's day to all mommies here.

so I am not a big drinker at all but i enjoy my occasional glass of cabernet...

i do not have a lyme dx yet but i am awaiting igeneX results.

when i drink alcohol (last night i had about 2 or 3 glasses of wine) i notice my symptoms get worse.

i get heart palpatations, my eyes get blinky and spastic, i get a bad headache and a lot of tingling. when i was laying down to go to sleep i was having muscle spasms and i was jerking a bit, i was also wide awake.

it felt like a herx, the way i felt last month when i took a zpack for strep.

is this common, i remember reading alcohol worsens the sx of lyme...

thanks,
michelle
 

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Posted by Michelle M (Member # 7200) on :
 
Hi Michelle, from another Michelle! Now there's at least three of us on here!

Consider your drinking days -- if not over -- then mighty darned abbreviated.

Boy, do I miss 'em, too.

Even drinking one freaking glass of Chardonnay gives me an actual hung over feeling. Three would probably kill me.

I settle for a coupla inches of wine in my favorite wine glass. Thassa 'bout all I can tolerate.

Don't know why this is so, but it is.

Pity.



Michelle
 

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Posted by Jon (Member # 9123) on :
 
For me alcohol brings on a sudden heat wave inside my body. This usually happens around my face and it feels like i have a fever. I also get more spaced out.

I have never experienced a bad hangover though (like the ones i read on the forums, they sound scary), even after 12 shots of tequilla i was fine the next day. I'm never doing that again though since i know i have this.
Really bizzare how lyme disease affects people in so many different and unique ways.
 

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Posted by Marnie (Member # 773) on :
 
NO ALCOHOL, PERIOD.

Sorry, but it is really, really not a good idea to drink alcohol when infected with lyme.

It will make a bad situation worse.

If you want to know how, I will pull a file.
 

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Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :
 
Michelle,

People have varying abilities to tolerate alcohol with Lyme.

I was undiagnosed for 17 years. Considering I was infected at age 12 and diagnosed at 29, I had many a drink while infected with Lyme and didn't have a bad reaction. My tolerance was always low, but two tylenol put me to sleep. My mom is the same way, so it's genetics not lyme.

But I do think it is a good thing to stay off alcohol while in treatment. We just don't need to add any more toxins to our bodies.

I probably have pancreatitis. We don't know the cause, but my LLMD has had a few patients who had babesia get pancreatitis.

I'm off all alcohol and vinegar now to protect my pancreas. Plus I'm now on Flagyl which you really can't mix with alcohol. I never drank a lot. I'd maybe have 2 drinks every other week.

Basically, my story is that you don't know what this disease will do to you. But it can impact your organs and alcohol doesn't help in that process.
 

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Posted by cantgiveupyet (Member # 8165) on :
 
Sadly alcohol is poison to our bodies. think about it they are over taxed as it is trying to fight this thing...or should i say multiple infections.

Before i knew i had lyme, my symptom was dizziness...so i was on vacation had a tiny 7oz of beer....and i felt my dizziness increase. I thought the beer would relax me,instead it made me worse. This happend twice.

I then felt drunk everyday, with dizziness and sensitivity to light......i never want to drink again really, i think i would freak out if the dizziness came back.

i miss hanging out with my friends and enjoying a few drinks.

also dont forget that many abx cannot be taken with alcohol.
 

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Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
 
I haven't had a glass of wine in three years.

It made my symptoms worse. Now I don't even miss it anymore. Same with sugar.

Another reason to not drink, is when you drink, your liver is busy working hard to processing the alochol and not freed up to process the toxins in your body.

All LLMD'S say no alcohol,caffine and sugar. It seems like a big sacrifice at first,but after a while you would be surprised at how easy it becomes.

Take care
 

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Posted by tothepoorhouse (Member # 8595) on :
 
See? Everyone is different.

I am in so much pain every day but if I have a couple of glasses of wine, I feel better. I guess I just don't feel the pain anymore.

I also don't get hangovers at all. Instead, I get a few hours of not even thinking about lyme...

Go figure? Besides, if I can have just an hour or two of not feeling the badness, it is good.

But that's just me.
 

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Posted by AZURE WISH (Member # 804) on :
 
Last time I had any alchol was at a wedding in 2000....

The alchol does not make me feel worse

but my poor liver (and the rest of my system) has enough to deal with

Do I miss it - No not at all... small sacrifice when you look at the big picture.

My advice would be to stop drinking alchol - I know you are not in treatment right now so you dont have so much toxic stuff to deal with but

its making you sicker.

Someday we will all be better and can have a glass of *insert favorite alcholic beverage here* to celebrate

Best wishes
 

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Posted by TheCrimeOfLyme (Member # 4019) on :
 
Alcohol doesn't bother me. It used to.

Its sad for me to say that one of the vices used to determine how well I had gotten, was to get drunk... plus, I felt like it.

I deserved it.

But thats not to say go ahead and drink. In time, you may be able to enjoy that again.
 

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Posted by LostCityAgent (Member # 9050) on :
 
pru,
Have you had MRIS of the brain/spine? If so, what were the conclusions.
With alochol intoxification I get leg weakness, and am at a higher risk for calve spasms.

Jmcc.
 

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Posted by JimBoB (Member # 8454) on :
 
I am wondering IF I too am getting well.

I used to drink a lot as a teenager, but was becoming an alcoholic, so gave it up for many years.

But then I started to have a few drinks a year. But quit drinking altogether last fall when I started treating seriously for Lyme, as I heard here that you shouldn't drink.

My wife bought me a 12 pack many months ago, but I didn't touch it till about two weeks ago, and have had a beer occasionally when I had Pizza for supper, and while I was scared at first, I had absolutely NO reactions to it.

I started cutting my herbal intake down yesterday too. I backed off one pill, three times a day, of each of the multiple pills that I take, and will see HOW it goes.

I THOUGHT I was taking 83 or 84 pills a day, plus tinctures and C-Salts; but I just counted them all and it was 89 a day. NOW I am down to 71.

I STILL eat way too much sugar. BUT have been off Caffiene for years.

Jim
 

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Posted by duke77 (Member # 5051) on :
 

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I also don't get hangovers at all. Instead, I get a few hours of not even thinking about lyme...

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