alcohol intolerance???

Just piping in to say I developed this problem seemingly out of the blue as well when I was about 24-25 years old. For years I was able to drink to the point of no return, and would often pride myself for never having a hangover the next day (usually, haha)I am 28 years old now and have not been able to drink more than a single beer without vomiting it back up the next morning. Like the rest of you say, I never get sick at night, it is usually 8-12 hours after I've stopped drinking. It's as if the alcohol just sits in my stomach, it goes nowhere, up is the only option. At this point it's something I've accepted. I was a heavy drinker in my late teen/early 20's, and now I am sober without a choice, and it's actually pretty great for the most part. I take it as something that was meant to be.Of course it can still cause inconvienieces. I'm posting here because I was at a wedding yesterday, and felt myself not being very fun or social. So I ran out to the store and put down a 6-pack in under a hour, definitely five more beers than I should have, but I knew it. I still had a great night, and dealt with my vomiting in the morning as if it were just another chore. I don't feel there is anything you can do other than accept it.

So this thread has hit home for me mainly because of the common theme of being sick the next day and vomiting bile, a yellow liquid, as well as a splitting migraine headache. 

Another problem I have is that food I eat that night doesn't get digested, it stays in my stomach and gets puked up the next day. I puke multiple times until ALL the alcohol is out of my system... and usually the beer or liquor I drink is in the bottom of my stomach, and turns into a thick, jelly like yellowish substance that doesn't come out until I flush my stomach with water a few times and throw up.

It is horrible.... I HATE it. Like others, I drank plenty in college, but when I was around 24 I started to notice that I would get these horrible hangovers. I also wouldn't really feel all that drunk the night of drinking, its like the alcohol doesn't really get absorbed or break down properly and just poisons my stomach.... filling it with acidity. 

I have tried to find a cure, but nothing. From this thread (and a few others) I have seen some common reasons and cures:

-Gluten/Celiac/IBS: Avoid gluten, drink gluten free alcohol

-High acidity: Take ranitidine, prilosec, or soem other heartburn medication

-Slow digestion: Take Reglan or something that promotes digestion

-Empty stomach: Eat often, drink lots of water

One other thing that may be a cause is the lack of ALDH, the enzyme that breaks down alcohol. This basically makes it so alcohol is a poision in your stomach and could shut down your digestion, could possibly explain the bile as well as it keeps getting pumped to try to break down the alcohol but doesn't work.... so in the end you just puke it all up the next day. It makes sense as to why I don't feel that drunk either.

I HATE this.... I used to have fun drinking, being more social. Now, can't have more then one drink without feeling bad and I immediately feel some symptoms like tired and depressed instead of energetic and happy, and ofcourse sick the next day vomitting for hours. 

I hope my list has helped.... I haven't really tried the remedies recently. I did try a combo of Reglan and Ranitidine to decrease acidity and promote digestion, which DID help some.... so I recommend that for a quick fix. There is also an experimental drug called Alda-1 which promotes ALDH-2 that breaks down alcohol (and removes stuff like the asian flush) but it is not available for prescription or over the counter yet. 

If anyone has any other tips... PLEASE tell me!!

Thanks,

K.

I was like you and I gave up gluten for another reason and found that I did not have to be sick every morning from just a few drinks.

I just had the same experience just now. Think it's about time I stop drinking and smoking.

It may be gallstones as I had same symptoms I was only 26 so

Hey everyone this is so crazy how many people are affected by this and no body knows what is going on. Back when I was in college I could go out and drink 10 to 15 beers in a night take shots and feel pretty loose wake up the next day with zero hang over. Now I am 27 and I can't even] think about drinking beer without feeling like I am going to puke, so I tried drinking hard alcohol the past few years and it seems like it made it almost worst. I feel like I am going to die the next day puking up everything I ate that night the next morning fallowed by stomach bile (yellow looking vomit) also will just get the chills sweat a bunch too. I know this bile is doing a number on my throat and teeth but where I live if you don't drink there is no point of going out socializing cuz you feel awkward cuz you want to drink and you can't. I recently have been getting worst and worst this past year and am to the point where I am going to go see a doctor this week to see if he can do anything for me. Let me add that my Dad and Sister have Celiac disease I have been tested and don't have it, Gluten is not the problem because I can eat bread and be fine. Recently I've tried just to see if it was the gluten in the booze and drank gluten free alcohol this past weekend and I puked it all up that night and the next day could barely even do anything because my stomach was hurting so bad. I'll post on here what the doctor says I am going to a stomach specialist and will let everyone know. If anyone else has found out why this is let me know thanks.

Hi. I have never been a drinker. Seldomly, i might drink a glass of wine or a wine cooler. My mom suddenly died in a car accident. I went into a depression and was prescribed anti depressant anti anxiety meds. This killed my sex drive so I tried a glass of wine and oh boy!! Sick and vomiting the green stuff the next day. My body still had not processed that wine became it came back up the next day. I'm just wondering it the meds built up an intolerance for it.

Amen to this comment. Seriously!!!!

Hi all,
Same exact problem started on a family holiday at 18 so thought it was just a stomach bug and thought nothing more of it. Carried on over at home and couldn't work out why. I have managed to deduce that (for myself at least) that the throwing up after barely drinking is due to an excess of bacteria in my stomach, which was kept at bay by the antibiotics I had stopped just before my family holiday and just before my problem started. I am now back on antibiotics and the puking is kept to a minimum, although not gone altogether. I hope my experience can help some of you find a cure for your hangovers of death!

How can I stop throwing up?

Wow, fix one problem with another!

I tend to find when ever I come home from a night out no matter what time or how much I've had, I always need to be sick. It's not fun but I think me personally is triggered via stress and work

Me too with terrible phlegm and cough for two to 3 days after drinking

Did you ever find out why this happens to you? I am a 24 year old female and this started to happen to me about a year or two ago and continues to get worse. About 80-85% of the time that I drink, regardless of what I drink and how much I drink (usually I am not even very drunk when I go out in fear of this happening) and I wake up anywhere from 4 AM to 7 AM and begin throwing up every 15 minutes or so for anywhere from 6-10 hours. Majority of the time I am throwing up mostly just yellow bile. Sorry for getting graphic with what I'm about to say but, a lot of the time diarrhea accompanies this so I will actually be sitting on the toilet with a barrel on my lap throwing up at the same time. I have tried eating and drinking gluten free, I have tried sticking to one type of alcohol, I have tried eating plenty throughout the day and the night and I have tried drinking water in between drinks as well as before bed. Nothing seems to work. There's no predicting when this will happen because I have had instances where I have actually blacked out while drinking nothing but martinis and not thrown up in the morning and then instances where I have had 2 vodka-tonics and thrown up the entire next day.

Obviously the obvious answer is to stop drinking. However I would still like to know why this happens to me and if there is something I can do to avoid it. I don't drink often and I usually don't get drunk when I do drink and I am a single 24 year old girl who likes to go out and have a few drinks and if there is a way I can avoid the throwing up I would like to know rather than getting the response "stop drinking".

This guy is right. I know from experience... The bad news is you shouldn't drink anymore. The good news? No more hangovers