BACK PAIN WHEN DRINKING ALCOHOL

gsj · Newbie Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

Read about pancreatitis symptoms and relevance to alcohol. Has anyone here been diagnosed with that? Or have doctors suspected that?

asel · Newbie Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

I too, have this problem. The pain for me occurs in my middle to lower back and right shoulder only. The pain is intense for about a half an hour but then completely goes away and I am able to drink as much as I want for the rest of the night. If I get up and move around the pain tends to decrease. This never happens when I drink beer; it seems to only happen when I drink mixed drinks. I have never been diagnosed with any disease, including skeletal diseases. Hopefully somebody can figure out what's going on.

Trixey24 · Newbie Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

I got this answer from a Dr. I am of part asian decent and so I found this very interesting

Dear Trixey24

Thanks for your reply.

As you are from mixed decent- Japanese-Hawaiian. It has been found that 50% of the Pacific Rim Asian population (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) possess an atypical alcohol dehydrogenate (ADH) known as ADH2*2 that leads to rapid conversion of ethanol to acetaldehyde. Since acetaldehyde is more toxic than alcohol, its increased accumulation causes flushing in the human body.

The first step toward metabolizing alcohol is to convert it to acetaldehyde. Approximately half of people of Asian descent are considered to be sensitive to alcohol due to this condition. Flushing, after consuming one or two alcoholic beverages, includes a range of symptoms: dizziness, nausea, headaches, an increased pulse, occasional extreme drowsiness, and occasional skin swelling and itchiness. These unpleasant side effects often prevent further drinking that may lead to further inebriation, but the symptoms can lead to misassumption that the people affected are more easily inebriated than others.

This causes a reaction where the body cannot break down ingested alcohol completely, due to a missense polymorphism that encodes the enzyme, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2), normally responsible for breaking down acetaldehyde, a product of the metabolism of alcohol. Flushing, or blushing, is associated with the erythema (reddening caused by dilation of capillaries) of the face, neck, and shoulder, after consumption of alcohol.

. Much anecdotal evidence suggests that consumption of heartburn medicine containing ranitidine or famotidine (such as Zantac® or Pepcid AC®) may be able to reduce the symptoms if taken an hour before drinking.

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I two have the same issue, but I think much worst. I was a drunk, and drinking to go to bed at night... I would wake up in real bad pain. Soon, I was only able to sleep for 4 hrs a night even after a six pack of beer... then I'd have to go to work. I was dying. Turns out after years of Chiropractors, and doctors visits I have Angligous Spinialitus... Spelling... It is artuitus of the spine and it was worst. Because I also had Iritus, my knees hands and feet hurt as well. All this pain because of a massive Candida infection eating away my intestines, and alcohol feeds the Candida beast. It is bad news. go take a blood test see if you have the gene, mostly German and English people have it. It has been 15 years, and my head aches are not so much anymore, my hands and feet, my knees dont hurt any more, but my back still bugs me. I can sleep 8 hours a night now, but I have to take aspirin or IB brofin... Soon my liver will die out. Candida is very hard to kill. And all the damage I got to my intestines. So hard to fix. I am taking large amounts of biotics, and Flax seed, and other stuff to help heal my instines and kill Candida... Its been a long 17 year fight. All becasue I was not breast feed, and they gave me antiboits all my life as a kid until I was 27, I had nothing left to keep Candida under control and it took over. The American diet is perfect for Candida. All it needs to eat you alive form the inside out. 85% of Americans have leaky gut do to it.

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yes best to exercise and stick to the odd beer smoke etc
i started to get pain after exercise in the gym but i drove an old gpz sportsbike at the time 8-9yrs

OkieDude · Newbie Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 2

I told six different doctors about my pain when drinking alcohol. None of them made the connection. Finally after six months, I was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma. If you are under 36 (I was 35 when diagnosed) get to a doctor immediately:

pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1010854&pageindex=1#page

The good news, Hodgkins is very beatable. Within 9 months I was in complete remission. 6 months later I relapsed and had a stem cell transplant and now I have been in remission for 2 years.

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i also have this problem and i have a pretty good idea what causes it

i notice that its not just when i drink, but also occasionally when i eat a fatty meal. after doing some research on the internet i came to the conclusion that it was due to gallstones in the kidney. look up the symptoms of gallstones to verify its the same pain as what you guys are feeling.

i read that at the beginning of a gallstone attack, some people can drink water immediately and the pain will go away. now when i feel one coming on, i order glass of water, no ice since cold makes it worse, drink the entire glass and the pain goes away and i can continue drinking and eating.

hope this helps others as much as it has helped me.

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