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Anonymous wrote:In late stage peri at 52 and on HRT and a GLP, and I’ll admit that I still love alcohol, feeling more relaxed, socializing with drinks, etc (if this offends you, move on)… but the after effects are really rough for me. I don’t have headaches as much as I’m just completely exhausted the next day, and it’s a lost day. In fact, I’m often still tired on day 2. This happens if I drink more than a glass of wine, even if I eat, drink water, get plenty of sleep, etc.

I look around me and others my age seem to be able to handle drinking. What am I doing wrong?

NP. Also in late stage perimenopause. I find with alcohol I can pick one: a single glass of wine or night’s sleep. They are exclusive choices.

Sometimes I elect the wine, because I still enjoy a glass of wine, but it comes with the price of a night’s sleep.

I elect the wine maybe six times a year now.

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Anonymous wrote:In late stage peri at 52 and on HRT and a GLP, and I’ll admit that I still love alcohol, feeling more relaxed, socializing with drinks, etc (if this offends you, move on)… but the after effects are really rough for me. I don’t have headaches as much as I’m just completely exhausted the next day, and it’s a lost day. In fact, I’m often still tired on day 2. This happens if I drink more than a glass of wine, even if I eat, drink water, get plenty of sleep, etc.

I look around me and others my age seem to be able to handle drinking. What am I doing wrong?

Op- also, no one has answered my question... do people who drink habitually have an easier time handling their alcohol? Not that I'm saying I'm going to do that, but it is curious to me how some of my friends seem better the next day.

Anonymous wrote:Drinking massively slows down in your 50s for this reason. I have for sure - can only do one or two drinks at best or I am up at 2 am and sick to my stomach/exhausted the next day. I have noticed drinking slowing down in spaces that previously were heavy drinking spaces - our community pool has a lot of older members now and the drinking culture has decreased so much in the last couple of years; same with neighborhood block parties full of families that bought at the same time and now are mostly in their early 50s. I have a set of friends in their 40s, and drinking hasn't abated yet, but I imagine it will within a decade.

Those that can keep it up in their 50s have rare genetics or have built tolerance by likely drink every night - my parents drank every night and didn't slow down till their late 60s But us social drinkers without super human liver genes are stuck with one glass of wine when we are out and about. Sorry!

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Anonymous wrote:In late stage peri at 52 and on HRT and a GLP, and I’ll admit that I still love alcohol, feeling more relaxed, socializing with drinks, etc (if this offends you, move on)… but the after effects are really rough for me. I don’t have headaches as much as I’m just completely exhausted the next day, and it’s a lost day. In fact, I’m often still tired on day 2. This happens if I drink more than a glass of wine, even if I eat, drink water, get plenty of sleep, etc.

I look around me and others my age seem to be able to handle drinking. What am I doing wrong?

Op- also, no one has answered my question... do people who drink habitually have an easier time handling their alcohol? Not that I'm saying I'm going to do that, but it is curious to me how some of my friends seem better the next day.

Anonymous wrote:In late stage peri at 52 and on HRT and a GLP, and I’ll admit that I still love alcohol, feeling more relaxed, socializing with drinks, etc (if this offends you, move on)… but the after effects are really rough for me. I don’t have headaches as much as I’m just completely exhausted the next day, and it’s a lost day. In fact, I’m often still tired on day 2. This happens if I drink more than a glass of wine, even if I eat, drink water, get plenty of sleep, etc.

I look around me and others my age seem to be able to handle drinking. What am I doing wrong?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I could have written your post! I am 53 on both HRT and GLP-1. I had too much Friday night as a way to cope with DH's company holiday party. I didn't really feel all that drunk or even very buzzed but I could barely get off the couch on Saturday. It wasn't so much a headache and no nausea, I was just exhausted.

This was really the first time this has happened on the year I have been on Zepbound. Usually I just can't tolerate more than 2 drinks.

What did you drink? I had wine, which I think was a mistake. Everyone was ordering bottles at the table and so I joined and had some, but then switched to water and iced tea. Everyone else seemed fine the next day- lots of people popping up at 8am to write good morning texts, but I was exhausted ALL DAY. NO headache, just a fog.

Anonymous wrote:OP, I could have written your post! I am 53 on both HRT and GLP-1. I had too much Friday night as a way to cope with DH's company holiday party. I didn't really feel all that drunk or even very buzzed but I could barely get off the couch on Saturday. It wasn't so much a headache and no nausea, I was just exhausted.

This was really the first time this has happened on the year I have been on Zepbound. Usually I just can't tolerate more than 2 drinks.

Anonymous wrote:In late stage peri at 52 and on HRT and a GLP, and I’ll admit that I still love alcohol, feeling more relaxed, socializing with drinks, etc (if this offends you, move on)… but the after effects are really rough for me. I don’t have headaches as much as I’m just completely exhausted the next day, and it’s a lost day. In fact, I’m often still tired on day 2. This happens if I drink more than a glass of wine, even if I eat, drink water, get plenty of sleep, etc.

I look around me and others my age seem to be able to handle drinking. What am I doing wrong?

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Anonymous wrote:You still love alcohol even though you’re on a GLP?

Yep! I didn’t at first but now I do.

Yeah I would think the GLP would eliminate those cravings completely, like food noise.

Not OP and 5 years younger but in the same boat--if anything I like to drink even more on my GLP-1. Op, I'm trying to limit my drinking to one night a week, I may stop entirely- it wreaks havoc on my sleep, I can't exercise the next few days, etc. But, drinking can be so fun, especially after 5 days in office, a million things going on with my 4 kids etc. And, I have no desire to do any drug of any sort, including edibles so makes giving up alcohol that much harder. A year ago, I wrapped up 18 months of sobriety. I felt and looked better until the stress of my new job caught up with me and I started gaining weight rapidly--thus the micro-dosing, low dose Gl-1 6 months ago which has been a God send.

Good luck OP--if you figure it out, please share it with the rest of us. You are not alone in your struggle,

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's time to quit or just drink on infrequent special occasions. That's what your body is telling you.

It will start to affect you more and will age you. I see people in their 50s that I know drink and even smoke and they look haggard. They are upper middle class and active (like golfers) but there's a look. Kind of red, tired, kind of defeated looking--they probably have hangovers. It definitely affects moods. If drinking a lot, bloated.