to want to drink just a bit of alcohol - sometimes - without always feeling grim the next day??

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Last night I had a Baileys, which was the first booze I had drunk in a week. It was a small Baileys! This morning, I have a nasty headache. I don't really want to embrace teetotalism, but I'm going to have to, I think, at this rate.

I will have to explain myself like people who don't drink do: 'I DO want to drink, I just can't.'

Seriously - is it possible to be allergic to booze? My level of intolerance (which has got worse and worse) doesn't seem normal.

No, I know what you mean. It wasn't a case of wanting to get wasted all the time, but to enjoy a bottle of wine with a meal, or just a glass of an evening.

Ok, the theory .... there's this woman called Louise Hay who believes that physical problems have an emotional cause. Because of the stress I was under at the time and the sort of emotions I was keeping inside me at the time I suffered with heartburn and gastritis and the alcohol just didn't help that, it made it worse.

Anyway, fast forward a few years and my situation had changed, I'd been depressed and got better, was much better at dealing with stress and looking after myself and much better about talking about how I was feeling, rather than keep a lid on it.

It meant I was able to start drinking again. I still got hangovers and problems with my stomach if I got shitfaced and my GP used to give me Omeprazole to help with the gastritis.

But then I get into reiki, EFT, emotrance, those sort of things and have a few treatments. I worked on releasing lots of emotions that I'd held onto for a while, anger, hurt (I was bullied at work was one thing) and a few montsh ago I realised that I can drink as much as I like and I no longer need the Omeprazole the next day.

So my theory is that it was all emotional stuff that I was holding onto and now that's gone I no longer get the physical symptom.

Sorry it took a while ... it was dd's bedtime!

Thanks surfermum

It's an interesting theory, but I don't think it can be my problem at the moment. I'm actually much happier than I have been in years. Sorry, sounds a bit smug

I meant I sound a bit smug !

Thanks for telling us, surfermum It would definitely be true to say that (unlike my dh, for example), I am quite prone to stress... the migraines are testament to that. I do tend to worry about stupid stuff. I used to smoke like a chimney! Had to give that up though (as you do).

Sparkling wine delicious, by the way. screamingabdab - cheers!

I'm glad all those things worked so well for you surfermum

No, don't worry you don't sound smug! I may not be right at all with my theory, it's just that for me the two things - bottling feelings up (no pun intended and sensitivity to alcohol do seem to be linked.