Does anyone else always get a headache when they drink wine?

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I hardly drink these days but I find wine really does not agree with me.

I had a small bottle of wine on Friday evening (2 units.) I had a headache on Friday night in bed which kept me awake and I have woken up with a headache this morning. Painkillers take the edge off for a few hours then it comes back.

I know the answer is not to drink wine at all but I don’t know why I get such awful headaches when I have friends who can sink much more than me and don’t get hangovers or headaches at all.

I get a headache, and an upset tummy as well!!

MIL can't have a sip of red without getting a terrible headache. White and rosé are fine.

Same here and I can't touch red wine any more, which is a shame, as I love a glass or two. South African whites used to give me terrible headaches but now all wine does. I get migraines (menopause) and wine is a trigger

White wine gives me a shocking headache. Dark spirits do too.

Yes. I don't drink wine anymore, haven't for years.

I have it up a few years ago , rotten headache every time ! Prosecco still ok though

I was like this with cheap wine. Then I found that even just 1 G&T made me very ill with diarrhoea. However, discovered it was the sugar free tonic water when I had a tonic on it's own.

I am less able to drink a lot without feeling like death, but it's mainly fake additives in wine and sugar free drinks and foods that make me ill on surprisingly little amounts of them.

I can't drink prosecco at all.

I find French and more expensive Italian wine is ok, but any new world wine, South African, Chilean, Australian, New Zealand etc is pounding heart and sense of doom inducing. I stick to European decent quality wine and am fine. Must be a difference in production methods or grape variety.

Yes me too and it's very hit and miss.
I feel as if I have found one which doesn't give me one (aldi organic Torro loco), then the next time it does.
I have osme very expensive rhubard gin in which didnt give me a headache but then next time did.
I also get terrible hangovers if I get drunk on wine.
Like 48 hours vomiting ones. This is compared to others with me who were drinking more or the same and are up eating a cooked brekkie at 9am.
So annoying

Red wine give me horrendous migraine quite soon after drinking. White wine is hit and miss. I stick to soft drinks or spirits now.

As well as sulfites, some people think that tannin and histamine from the grape skins also help cause headaches. They use the whole grape, not just the juice, to make red wine which may be why some people can drink white but not red without getting a headache.

Organic and traditionally made wine (Portugal and Italy) works for some people but, as other posters say, they do cost more. Sounds as if you will be safer sticking to Baileys

I do but it varies, sometimes I can have a glass or two with dinner and be fine other times it's almost an instant headache after a couple of sips.
I find it also gets me really drunk really quickly as does Prosecco. I can drink gin and tonic or rum and coke all night and be just a bit tipsy but a couple of Prosecco and I'm slitting my words and stumbling around.

I found when I started getting migraines in my mid-20s that wine became a huge trigger for the headache part. Just a couple of sips would do it. Which is a real shame because I like wine 😔

Fortunately, I'm still ok with rum so I keep the cupboard well stocked with numerous varieties of that instead