before i was on my meds it wasn’t as bad, and i occasionally would get wine if it was recommended with food. i’ve had enough to know there’s a huge variety of flavours, i just disliked all of them. so it’s no great loss.
I also thought that I was really intolerant of sulfites, as most red wine gives me a headache directly, but it doesn’t seem to be just that…
One way I noticed this was that my boss’s favorite beer is Breznak, and so when he gave me a can as my first drink after-work, I got immediately headached, despite that it should have pretty low levels of sulfites. And then I made the connection a couple weeks later when the same thing happened. So the third time he wanted to hang after work, I took some macro lagers with me (Norrlands Guld), and I drank several without problems.
I can even drink a ton of vodka and not have a headache the next day… but if you give me a half glass of red wine or many different kinds of beer, I immediately get the worst headaches. I wish I knew why.
So is it only wine that messes you up? It’d be interesting to know if you get any negative reactions from Breznak for example next time you’re at Systembolaget (if you even drink, I dunno)
No one ever believes me; they genuinely seem to think I get hungover even if I drink just a single beer. Then I can drink them under the table with any kind of spirits, and have no hangover the next day.
i have no problem with beer and spirits, but blended drinks and wine hit like a truck. as far as i can tell the common thread seems to be the sulphites.
no because the sulphides combine with my medication to give me turbo-hangovers after a quarter of a glass.
but the airplane explanation is funnier so yeah, it’s that
Then you might bring your own sulphide free wine and pay the corkage fee.
i feel like that’s more of an allergy thing than a preference thing though.
There’s a spray/drops you can use to remove sulfides in wine
the second reason i don’t drink wine is that it tastes like ass
Things that make you sick do tend to be remembered poorly.
before i was on my meds it wasn’t as bad, and i occasionally would get wine if it was recommended with food. i’ve had enough to know there’s a huge variety of flavours, i just disliked all of them. so it’s no great loss.
I wish ass tasted like wine
I also thought that I was really intolerant of sulfites, as most red wine gives me a headache directly, but it doesn’t seem to be just that…
One way I noticed this was that my boss’s favorite beer is Breznak, and so when he gave me a can as my first drink after-work, I got immediately headached, despite that it should have pretty low levels of sulfites. And then I made the connection a couple weeks later when the same thing happened. So the third time he wanted to hang after work, I took some macro lagers with me (Norrlands Guld), and I drank several without problems.
I can even drink a ton of vodka and not have a headache the next day… but if you give me a half glass of red wine or many different kinds of beer, I immediately get the worst headaches. I wish I knew why.
Yeah, that sucks, not knowing when you might get an attack. I hope you get that figured out so you know what to avoid.
You may have an intolerance to yeast?
So is it only wine that messes you up? It’d be interesting to know if you get any negative reactions from Breznak for example next time you’re at Systembolaget (if you even drink, I dunno)
No one ever believes me; they genuinely seem to think I get hungover even if I drink just a single beer. Then I can drink them under the table with any kind of spirits, and have no hangover the next day.
i have no problem with beer and spirits, but blended drinks and wine hit like a truck. as far as i can tell the common thread seems to be the sulphites.