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Unless you were getting wasted it's quite unusual for a few drinks to make you feel bad. Also, there is more and more a decent selection of <0.5% alcohol beers

Unless you were getting wasted it's quite unusual for a few drinks to make you feel bad. Also, there is more and more a decent selection of <0.5% alcohol beers - I find this the easiest way to not get strange looks when at a drinking occasion. But then again, maybe the point of drinking together is it provides some kind of bonding effect, being a shared vice. It makes it harder to lie and shows you value others more than your own health (relatively).

katzgrau 8y ago
I noticed even a single normal ABV beer makes a noticeable impact on my workout the following morning (I workout 5 mornings per week). There's just an a edge I don't have if I had a drink the previous night, and it definitely doesn't require overindulging.
lloydde 8y ago
How do you define quite unusual? I’m not East Asian, but I most often get symptoms similar to Alcohol Flush Reaction with even only a single drink. I often find a single beer strong. I’ve never been able to figure out why sometimes I’ll get a headache after a single beer. “Approximately 36% of East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans) show characteristic physiological responses to drinking alcohol that includes facial flushing, nausea, headaches and a fast heart rate.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction
- justtopost 8y ago
  Diabetes, poor liver and/or kidney function, similar genetic mutation, etc. There are a host of reasons, I would bring it up with your physician, as they may have more insight than a psudoanonymous commenter.
  - copperx 8y ago
    It could be some other cause too. A couple of years ago I started noticing that one or two beers would make me almost drunk and to feel terrible the next morning. I attributed it to aging (36) but I also noticed none of my friends had the same problem. Later, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and after daily treatment now drinking a few beers is completely ok. I don't understand what the relationship between those two things are. I would have never imagined.
  - DenisM 8y ago
    Also medication.
mcculley 8y ago
When I was twenty pounds heavier, a few drinks had no effect on me. Now that I am healthy and running every day, I notice every drink has an effect on my performance. I think the extra fat just helped distribute the effects of alcohol.
another-cuppa 8y ago
> Unless you were getting wasted it's quite unusual for a few drinks to make you feel bad. Is it, though? I know plenty of people who will just waste whole days away in front of the TV doing nothing because they don't feel like doing anything else. People are constantly telling me they're "tired". I used to be like that too. But now I work on my career or on my hobbies day in, day out. Barring seasonal illnesses I never have down days.
sushid 8y ago
Have you ever abstained for a while from alcohol? I used to drink like a degenerate in college (easily 10+ drinks on a night out). I cut out drinking altogether for about a year right after college. Since then, I drink maybe 6 times a year. If I drink anything more than two drinks I feel pretty horrible and can feel it the next day. The places I've been to in the Bay Area has never served anything like <0.5% beer. I'd much rather drink something like ginger beer or kombucha anyway, which is what I do given the occasion.
screye 8y ago
I beg to disagree. In my case, even a small amount of alcohol consumption will make me feel heavy in my abdomen the morning after. People in my family have historically been alcohol drinkers. So idk why, but it helps since I dislike drinking anyways.

katzgrau 8y ago

I noticed even a single normal ABV beer makes a noticeable impact on my workout the following morning (I workout 5 mornings per week). There's just an a edge I don't have if I had a drink the previous night, and it definitely doesn't require overindulging.

lloydde 8y ago

How do you define quite unusual? I’m not East Asian, but I most often get symptoms similar to Alcohol Flush Reaction with even only a single drink. I often find a single beer strong. I’ve never been able to figure out why sometimes I’ll get a headache after a single beer. “Approximately 36% of East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans) show characteristic physiological responses to drinking alcohol that includes facial flushing, nausea, headaches and a fast heart rate.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction

justtopost 8y ago
Diabetes, poor liver and/or kidney function, similar genetic mutation, etc. There are a host of reasons, I would bring it up with your physician, as they may have more insight than a psudoanonymous commenter.
- copperx 8y ago
  It could be some other cause too. A couple of years ago I started noticing that one or two beers would make me almost drunk and to feel terrible the next morning. I attributed it to aging (36) but I also noticed none of my friends had the same problem. Later, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and after daily treatment now drinking a few beers is completely ok. I don't understand what the relationship between those two things are. I would have never imagined.
- DenisM 8y ago
  Also medication.

mcculley 8y ago

When I was twenty pounds heavier, a few drinks had no effect on me. Now that I am healthy and running every day, I notice every drink has an effect on my performance. I think the extra fat just helped distribute the effects of alcohol.

another-cuppa 8y ago

> Unless you were getting wasted it's quite unusual for a few drinks to make you feel bad. Is it, though? I know plenty of people who will just waste whole days away in front of the TV doing nothing because they don't feel like doing anything else. People are constantly telling me they're "tired". I used to be like that too. But now I work on my career or on my hobbies day in, day out. Barring seasonal illnesses I never have down days.

sushid 8y ago

Have you ever abstained for a while from alcohol? I used to drink like a degenerate in college (easily 10+ drinks on a night out). I cut out drinking altogether for about a year right after college. Since then, I drink maybe 6 times a year. If I drink anything more than two drinks I feel pretty horrible and can feel it the next day. The places I've been to in the Bay Area has never served anything like <0.5% beer. I'd much rather drink something like ginger beer or kombucha anyway, which is what I do given the occasion.

screye 8y ago

I beg to disagree. In my case, even a small amount of alcohol consumption will make me feel heavy in my abdomen the morning after. People in my family have historically been alcohol drinkers. So idk why, but it helps since I dislike drinking anyways.