If I have a few 2-5 beers while barbequeing, I have no problems the next day. Same for margaritas while toasting a perfect sunset.

Are you maybe sleeping "too hard"?

not sure what it is. i know it sucks really bad. u think i would learn my lesson!

Got to have some fun every once in a while. All work and no play makes luvmek a dull girl!

yeh!! what he said!! and i read in aarp- well im not that old, but had the magezine! that its good for inflamation, arthritis!! so.. but yeh just a couple probably!

I had a pretty bad alcohol problem for years. I quit 6 years ago when doing IVF treatments to become pregnant.
I do occationally have 2-3 glasses of vine but pay for it big time the next day. I am very allergic to brewers yeast so this might be the problem for me (I am pretty much allergic to everything). I am also on LDN which cannot be mixed with alcohol so if i drink I have to skip it. Not much partying anymore for me.

I think it does not bother me in that I am used to getting out of bed at 5:03 am everyday except Sunday, no matter how good or bad I feel.

I am in such a routine that I am scaring myself. I sometimes feel like Bill Murray in the movie Ground Hog Day. My biggest pet peeve is that when I am in the shower, I cannot remember if I shampoed my hair today, or was that yesterday. I think I then end up washing my hair twice. ( I have short hair, so it does not take all that long). My wife thinks I makethis up.

I don't think it is a good idea to mix alcohol with any of our drugs. Now I admit to sipping a bit of my husband's....Just a bit. And, omg, how I love it....

I agree with Sumanadevil, that is it not a good idea to mix alchol with any of our MS meds, especially if you are on narcotic pain pills which so many of us are on. I for one only inebrate very occassionally, and when I do, I don't feel any different the next morning.

Since you are an alcholic, maybe you shouldn't have any drinks? It certainly doesn't sounds like your body likes alchol.

I am personally very careful with alcohol. It makes my fatigue worse sometimes for several days afterward, even if I have just a little. But, when I have company and there is drinking, I go with a very light low-alcohol-content wine (like Arbor Mist) which I can sip a glass through the evening and not really have much of an impact. It's all about balance.

As someone else mentioned... Just be very careful mixing your regular meds with alcohol. I once forgot about that, took my amphetamine salts (for fatigue), then drank two glasses of wine and thought my heart was going to explode. Gotta think and plan ahead and watch what your mixing.

Just because you have a drink once a month doesnt mean much as far as alcoholism is concerned. I too am alcoholic & drank the same way for many years. It's how you drink that matters. For me, one glass of wine just wasnt enough! I drank to "shut" my head up. Not because it was a great wine to compliment my "Osso Bucco"
If we already have issues with alcohol, it makes it even tougher with our diagnoses. The last couple of years of my drinking changed rapidly!!! I believe I've had MS for awhile & I seriously began drinking in an almost "medicinal" way. Well, it caught up to me! I wasnt "partying" but hiding it.
Its absolutely the worse way to help us feel better, as alcohol takes a huge toll on the body! Especially our bodies! So after a year of being prescribed so many different pills to help w/ my symptoms, which all of them came with such harsh side effects & knowing I cherish how I feel when I dont drink, I decided to go get my Medical Marijuana card. Never really been a pot smoker, (made me parinoid!) After tons of research & talking w/ others, I did it!!! Let me just say that I still dont smoke it, I eat it in chocolate form. I have seriously never felt better!!! I've slept soundly for the first time in years, no leg cramps @ night, no pins & needles, OH!!!! & I can POOP!!!! (i know, TMI) but I just want to share this because it has changed everything!!! I just cant understand the "Stigma" on it at all!!
So now, I'm not only going to be an advocate for our MS, but also for Medicinal Marijuana!!!! You've never heard about people being found in their hotel rooms dead from to much pot! Its always "prescription" drugs!
Hey, bottom line is, is that you know you more than anyone else! You labeled yourself an Alcoholic. That leads me to believe that you struggle w/ it at times. I just want you to know that drinking is our demise!!! Unless of course you can have just one and call it a day. Makes us sicker!!! Emotionally & Physically!!!
If you'd ever like to chat about it I would be there in a heart beat!!!
Take Care! Gina :)

thnx for the replies! hugs, kelly

I get sick next day from drinking the tiniest amounts...where before I was good to get pretty drunk without much adverse effect next day...I blame the MS. Now just a glass of wine sends me into major vertigo...blech.
I just plain don't drink alcohol anymore.

But YES to gmp's post about medical marijuana. Please try it for your MS if you haven't already! I have such bad pain and cannot even sit up/walk without mine so...I'm an advocate as well!

The stigma comes from the 30s/50s when it was used as a racial weapon (i.e. only "blacks" or "mexicans" smoke so they're bad and its bad too!)
This ignorant thinking is clearly WAY outdated and I think if more people knew thats WHERE the stigma comes from, they'd be less likely (if at all) to support it!

Also, money. I mean you can grow pot anywhere but you cant make your own prescription pills...and there's HUGE money in all those pills...

glad that you feel better gina! and in chocolate form , it doesnt get any better than that! yeah i dont know what the big deal is either!!

Hello Luvmekk, i typically have at least 8 or 9 beers durning the weekend, friday to sunday. I have not had any issues, maybe i need to switch from bud lights?!!!!

Hi luvmekk,
It's me, SharonMom. I think that you are worrying far too much about alcohol. Didn't you get the 411 that all of us in this group are doomed because we have an incurable disease? So go out and enjoy you cocktails! And while you're at it enjoy a cigarette or two too!