Can this be possible after one glass?

[Helpmyhair2019]

Hello
I gave up alcohol over a year ago as I had found it increased me anxiety. I never drank much but the anxiety got a bit better without it. I am also on sertraline.

I had one glass of champagne on Saturday. Yesterday I felt like all my anxiety had come back. I felt jittery, sad - the works! I don’t feel right today.

Can one glass of alcohol really have such a negative effect or is it just co-incidence?

Happy to stop drinking but an occasional glass of champagne at a celebration was something I thought would be ok anxiety wise

Definitely coincidence! Don’t worry

No medical knowledge here -could it be that the anxiety is caused by the association you have between alcohol and these feelings?

So the drink doesn't do anything chemical, (or not much) it just reminds you of the bad times - and brings the worry right back?

Either way- better avoiding it?

It's not coincidence at all. Alcohol is a powerful drug which can cause anxiety although ironically, people often use it to alleviate anxiety without realising that it actually makes it worse. Being alcohol free for a long time would cause you to notice the effects more intensely.

I don't know anything about how alcohol interacts with sertraline.

I don't have a problem with alcohol and only drank occasionally, but I stopped drinking altogether years ago because I noticed that even just one would have an effect on my brain the following day, leaving me feeling slightly 'off/fuzzy/not quite myself'. I didn't see the point of spending a couple hours enjoying my one drink with friends then feeling slightly weird all the next day, when I could enjoy their company perfectly well without alcohol and feel absolutely fine. It's also possible that apart from the effects of the alcohol itself, it might have made the sertraline less effective temporarily.

Alcohol doesn’t make Sertraline less effective. I highly doubt one champagne (about 150ml) of alcohol could give you these feelings. Coincidence or association.

Give it 24 hours and see if it wears off the way it would if you’d eating something that didn’t quite agree with you.

I can feel the effects of one glass of champagne within ten minutes. I don’t drink so if I have a toast at a wedding or something it really affects me.

Meds and alcohol can cause things to affect us more.

So how are you feeling today OP?

Not a coincidence at all! I had this for a long time after I had my son. I couldn’t have one glass of wine without feeling anxious and like my postnatal depression was back. I loved a drink before so it was very disappointing. I was on Sertraline too. It’s only really been in the last year that I’ve felt ok drinking again. My son’s 5 now.