Anonymous wrote:What's the connection?

Body chemistry changes, recovery times slow, aging. Eyesight seems to change overnight at 40 for many people too.

Anonymous wrote:You might enjoy crack cocaine

That does sound delightful.

I'm an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. Began drinking at high school parties, ramped it up in college.

By my early 20s, more than two beers guaranteed a day long hangover where I couldn't get out of bed. Switched to wine and that triggered a migraine.

Easiest decision I ever made was to just stop drinking alcohol entirely. Did this for 20 years. Recently thought during Covid that I'd try a glass of wine with dinner. Nope. Did it two nights in a row and woke up with a migraine that lasted into the next day.

I honestly consider my intolerance a genetic blessing.

I figured this was going to be OP updating to say she has leukemia.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a thread a few months ago where a bunch of us in our 40s were complaining that our bodies can’t handle even small amounts of alcohol anymore. I think someone actually provided some scientific reason for it, but I don’t recall the details because I’m 46 with three kids and I had a small margarita last night and slept terribly afterwards.

Which thread? I missed that!

Same! I've made the same decision after seeing my drinking sort of spike during COVID-19. I'd love to read that thread.

Anonymous wrote:There was a thread a few months ago where a bunch of us in our 40s were complaining that our bodies can’t handle even small amounts of alcohol anymore. I think someone actually provided some scientific reason for it, but I don’t recall the details because I’m 46 with three kids and I had a small margarita last night and slept terribly afterwards.

Which thread? I missed that!

Anonymous wrote:You might enjoy crack cocaine

Great suggestion!😂

The thing is that alcohol is a poison. Now, many things are a poison and we can tolerate them, but alcohol is particularly hard on your liver which has to clear it from your body. As we get older, our organs don't work as well and it's harder for them to process the poison.

I found I got terrible headaches, heartburn, and insomnia after drinking right around age 40 so I now drink much smaller amounts much more rarely. Since we know there are not many (any?) positive effects to drinking, I say don't do it if you don't feel good.

You might enjoy crack cocaine

Can I just say I am in the same boat. 40 and six months and just totally over drinking. I feel like hell after, I'm not crazy about the taste of most wines or spirits, I am a groggy mess in the morning after and I am trying to maintain my weight and the calories just don't seem worth the spend.

It's weird, but I'm not really announcing anything or doing a program. I'm just sort of done.

Turned 41 this year and definitely started having the same thing. I think I’m starting to finally associate alcohol with the next day’s hangover.

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Anonymous wrote:This happened to my friend. Turned out he had leukemia. I'm glad your labs are all good though.

Oh, weird. Same with a friend of mine. Also a sudden aversion, also leukemia

And my sister. She was diagnosed with lymphoma soon after. The oncologist told her it was a symptom. Her blood counts were way off when they checked though, so it doesn’t sound like the cause for OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Trying to understand what you mean. Aversion to the taste or aversion to the feeling?

I don’t have an aversion to alcohol but I can attest to an aversion to hangovers. After 40 (or probably more like 35) hangovers were much worse and much more of an inconvenience. I just started to realize that as much fun as I had the night before, it just wasn’t worth it.

OP here. I never liked the taste but enjoyed the buzz.
I guess I mainly mean aversion to the feeling of being tipsy and feeling like crap

Oh, then me too, but maybe not to the same extent. I’ve never been someone that can have more than one drink in the middle of the day and not need a nap afterwards. So, instead I usually didn’t drink before 5 or 6, and had at least two. Now if I have more than two not spaced out appropriately, I’ll be hungover the next day. Given that I have two kids who have sports/activities on the weekends AND I enjoy spending time with, I don’t want to feel crappy. The other thing I’ve noticed is that anxiety has become a part of my hangovers, which makes them that much worse.

There was a thread a few months ago where a bunch of us in our 40s were complaining that our bodies can’t handle even small amounts of alcohol anymore. I think someone actually provided some scientific reason for it, but I don’t recall the details because I’m 46 with three kids and I had a small margarita last night and slept terribly afterwards.

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Anonymous wrote:Trying to understand what you mean. Aversion to the taste or aversion to the feeling?

I don’t have an aversion to alcohol but I can attest to an aversion to hangovers. After 40 (or probably more like 35) hangovers were much worse and much more of an inconvenience. I just started to realize that as much fun as I had the night before, it just wasn’t worth it.

OP here. I never liked the taste but enjoyed the buzz.
I guess I mainly mean aversion to the feeling of being tipsy and feeling like crap

Your body grew up happened to me too. I feel much better clear eyed and not groggy (how I did feel after 2 drinks or 3).