Intolerance to alcohol

[oapcarer]

Ever since my periods have stopped, anything more than 1 glass of wine has me waking in the night drenched in sweat. Not only that but I feel pretty unwell with it, too. I find I can't hold my drink as well either, which is fine, normally, but when I want to meet up with friends for a couple, I pay for it even though I might not feel more than a bit merry.

I have a mirena coil fitted and am on the oestrogen gel

Yeah as if we don't have enough to worry about we get drunk on 2 glasses of wine and sweat it out during the night ! There was something on TV about it recently but I was so annoyed that it's an actual thing that I couldn't remember what the TV Dr said.

I get this too. If I have any more than 1 glass of wine I get the worst palpitations ever. I don't sleep a wink. I very rarely drink now and to be honest I feel much better for it. I sleep like a baby.
On the rare occasion I do drink I just put up with it. It's a bit rubbish though!

Just another of life's great miseries that we women have to put up with. You would have thought God would have at least given us wine as a remaining joy.

I read that you can retain fluid when on the pill. Not so much when you come off it off it so we are dehydrated before we start drinking!. Red wine is worse for me