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[NaturalMystic]

Hi all,

Happy New Year!

I find that I drink more wine than I should in the evening (albeit a 7% wine).  Sometimes it's the only thing that makes me really relax, however I am wondering if the very thing I'm drinking to relax in the evening is causing my morning anxiety, and heart flutters.

Anyone with any experience of this?

[Blot]

No doubt about it. Alcohol does give me anxiety if I drink too much.
Its so easy to reach for the wine if you are stressed and want to relax. I do it. But then I eat rubbish, can't sleep and feel anxious the next day. I try not to have a drink during the week if I can, and only have a few drinks on Saturday and Sunday.

[jillydoll]

Hi NaturalMystic
Maybe you're right.
When I became aware I couldn't drink anymore, I was out having a meal, and had a pint
lager/lime, and maybe I'd only drank 1/2 of it and I felt awful.
My anxiety kicked in big time, made me feel like I'd drank 10 pints,! I wasn't drunk, but it made me feel like I was drunk, but still my brain was there, hard to explain, but boy, it made me feel crap!. I couldn't drink the rest, and I used to drink lager, and wine all the time.
Well, not all the time, I'm not an alcoholic, 😺but you know what I mean. Lol.
So I used to test it, every time I'd have a drink, only like 1/2 glass of something the same thing would happen, so I stopped drinking altogether.
I hadn't had a drink for years now, oh, except a glass of champers at my nieces wedding, and that gave me anxiety, and had to run to the toilet while the speeches were being made.
Hence, the anxiety was bad all through the wedding reception,.... horrible .
So yeah, I think this meno thing has a lot to answer for.........xx

Happy new year xxx

[Dancing Queen]

Too much red wine gives me a pounding heart when I`m in bed... doesn`t stop me drinking it though 

[Ladybt28]

NaturalMystic - can't say that when I had morning anxiety (now all gone) that drinking made it any worse - it was just permanently off the scale.  I wake up feeling just slightly nauseus for the first 10 mins anyway everyday.  I have found over the last year I can only have one glass of any type of alcohol.  It doesn't make me anxious but it seems to affect my liver. There is nothing wrong with my liver and I have never been a big drinker anyway.  Probably drink once every 3 months max and probably more like every 6 months.  I seem to get itchy and I can't sleep (not jittery just restless)  and it seems to make my joints really sore. That the biggest problems, it makes my knees, ankles and elbows sore.  I think I read somewhere that it is the acid that causes the joint problems. The rest I have no idea, I just drink even less than I used to and only one glass - no fun huh!

[NaturalMystic]

Too much red wine gives me a pounding heart when I`m in bed... doesn`t stop me drinking it though 

I couldn't drink red

[jaypo]

Red wine? I absolutely love it but it definitely doesn't love me
I only drink on a Friday and Saturday as that's the only time my husband and I unwind but only a couple of glasses of white,more than that and yes pounding heart

[Roseneath]

Agree totally with all of this. If I have a single glass of wine with my dinner I will not get to sleep as well, wake up more and around 6 hours later 2/3am have shaky, vibrating heart. Especially bad with wine.  I rarely touch it now.

The only thing that helps it to have a glass of water to drink along side of it like the Italians do.  Was also give a tip on a wine tasting course that wines from South America have far less additives in general other wines so I always try and choose one from there...and it's true - less head ache.

If I take the time and have the energy to make a really nice meal it is nice to have some wine with it though. And so at least an hour it does make me 'chill out' slightly and dull the ' on edge' anxiety which plagues me so much.

[CLKD]

Alcohol is a depressive.  It's also a poison to many people and some ladies have found that during peri-menopause, they react differently than previously.  Maybe because they don't eat the same or have gut problems due to hormonal upheaval? 

My go to relaxant is a hot bubble bath with Very Good Book and a cuppa  .  I would never reach for alcohol as it's rarely agreed with me.   One needs to consider the reason why one would use alcohol and see if there is an alternative.

[racjen]

I've had acute morning anxiety for well over a year now - when it started I wasn't drinking at all, now I am as there's nothing else that gives me a break from the whole nightmare. It makes absolutely no difference to my anxiety whether I've had a drink or two the night before or not - it's the same every bloody morning.

[CLKD]

Cortisol was my biggest problem for a few years  any time from 3.30 a.m.. 

[AgathaC]

I haven't had a drink for 12 years and I've got jittery, stomach churning anxiety on a regular basis. I am sure it is hormonal.

Therefore you should all drink as much as you can  .

In actual fact, I've been thinking of taking up drinking again to help my anxiety 

[Ladybt28]

Nice one AgathaC - if we are anxious all the time any without alcohol - why worry!
It is definitely hormonal the jitter thing.  Mines gone now so my hrt has sorted it.  Its the itching thing with alcohol I cant do and it disturbs my already disturbed sleep so I cant use the "help my anxiety" excuse.

[jaypo]

I'm NOT giving up my glasses of wine at the weekend,better watch though ladies,there will be a new thread titled “alcoholics “😂

[Perinowpost]

Alcohol is actually an intensifier, if you're in good spirits it takes you up, and if you're not it can take you down.  When my mother died I didn't drink for 2 years because it just made me cry.

I love a drink socially but these days I limit it to Friday/Saturdays only. Mainly because it's so calorific. Wine 🍷 and beer 🍺 are my favourites, I never touch spirits they make me feel ill.

To answer your question NaturalMystic I do find I struggle if I drink whilst on the progesterone part of my hrt though, Utrogestan and alcohol just don't mix.  Other than that it's fine as long as know/and stick to my limits x