Nausea plus wine — a mistake made once

What helped was noticing the pattern in my notes. Three difficult mornings across two months, all after the same thing.

Nothing here is medical advice, and on interactions specifically a pharmacist will give you a better answer in five minutes than any thread.

Coming back a year on to say it settled into something I am comfortable with, which is less and better and much less thought about.

Somebody in this circle said that not drinking is not a moral position and does not require a defence, and I have used that at three parties.

The thing I did not expect was how much better my sleep got, and how much of what I had blamed on other things had been the drinking.

My rule now is that I do not drink on the day, which is entirely my own rule and my prescriber was fairly relaxed about the whole subject.

Something practical: I switched to something non-alcoholic that looks like a drink, and the number of questions I get dropped to zero.

I found that eating less alongside drinking was the actual mechanism in my case, rather than anything more mysterious.

You have described the bit that nobody warns you about.

My relationship with drinking changed in a way I have found mostly positive and slightly disorienting, and this circle is where I worked that out.

I stopped entirely for six months, not as a rule, just because it stopped being interesting, and started again occasionally.

Something worth knowing: this interacts with other things I take and a pharmacist gave me a much more precise answer than I expected.

My experience is that this is one of the most commonly reported changes here and one of the least discussed anywhere else.

Two landed like five for me, very early on, and it took one uncomfortable evening to work out that something had genuinely changed.