47 and gone off wine

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I've a severe vit D deficiency for which I'm on supplements and hoping it will ease some bone and muscle pain. Also started experiencing anxiety recently. At the same time I've started craving healthier foods particularly fish and vegetables and my tolerance for wine, which was famous amongst those that know me, has disappeared. It makes me feel awful both physically and emotionally in a way it never did, even one glass. I will still drink a small amount of good quality craft beer or an odd spirit but my drinking habits have changed without any input from me. Could this be perimenopause - both the anxiety and vit d issues but also the positive side? I had an endometrial ablation 9 years ago so can't assess whether I'm peri by my menstrual cycle. I suspect my real question is, will this lack of tolerance of wine last? Whilst I love wine, I'm really hoping the answer is yes.

Are you peri menopausal? I only ask because I’m the same, and with the aches and pains and dreadful skin I’ve decided it’s all part of that. One glass of wine gives me a headache and I used to drain best part of a bottle on a Friday night!

perimenopause did that to me, not wine but spirits. I can no longer tolerate it.

Or pregnant??

I'm 50 and I just stopped liking drinking 2 years ago, I liked drinking a lot before that! I don't drink at all now and feel so much better, physically and mentally, for it.

Me too. Just went off alcohol at about 47/48.
Hot flushes came next
I suppose the body knows what it doesnt need!

Thanks all, don't know if I am peri but my sister mentioned the connection between that and my symptoms. Definitely not pregnant! I'm not bothered about ageing but in many ways it's shit!

Menopause I think - I'm ok with alcohol but exactly as you describe if I have sugar.

It is menopause or peri.

I always enjoyed a few glasses of good red over the weekend, but all of a sudden it made me feel awful. My sister who is two years younger had the same when her turn came around.

Thankfully we have turned the corner, and red wine is on the menu again! Trying times whilst enduring it though..

I think it is a peri-menopause/ menopause symptom.

Apparently all ok again when you’re through the other side. I guess that can take about 10 years though.

Peri I'm afraid.
I looked at the NHS Choices website a while back and ticked every symptom 🙄
Seriously, (jokey) who ever designed men knew that they'd fucked up and forgotten to put some ways to progress the species stuff in and put it all in #2 women

I have experienced the same thing. I had a racing heart and anxiety even after one drink, so I stopped drinking alcohol altogether. I feel much better and don’t miss it at all, even though I was a bit of a boozer before.

Menopause is my guess. I’ve lost the taste for wine and for coffee and I used to love both. Now they taste odd and wrong somehow. Given up all alcohol now and just mainline cups of tea.

I'm 60 and well past menopause but I lost all taste for wine at the beginning of the year. One glass of white wine occasionally with a meal is all I can face; sparkling, whether champagne or just sparkling wine, is more palatable than still wine. Drinking red wine is unthinkable.

I've never liked spirits other than malt whisky. I don't drink a lot of it but it's still fine.