I also get upper back aches when drinking. It happens about after the 2nd drink and I start to feel this pain it's mostly on the upper back and shoulders. I have muscle tension and figured that that was the reason but I see that it could be more than just that. I'm only 21 and I wouldnt call myself a regular drinker. I havent noticed that the pain will carry on til the morning because my shoulders always hurt but it's just worse when I'm drinking alcohol.
I get lower back pain after a big night of drinking, and have found out that if you get a sore lower back after a drink it means your kidneys are having a hard time, it is a relocation of the pain.
As a trainer for 5 years w/ my own drinking problem. My thoughts are this....drinkin dehydrates you (and your muscles). When we drink, we generally sit in the same position. Muscles get tight (like the hip flexors that attach to the spine), and pull bones out of alignment. I/we feel like sh*t the next day because of the bottle of Sky I had the night before...well, not totally bad (because of the tolerance I/we builted up), but unmotivated. We don't stretch, walk, move, and it just begins to compound on itself (from sitting, and drying out everything), and next thing you know....your back hurts. I get terrible leg and hip (butt), pains. I used to be really flexible, and now I can't cross my left leg over my right. the muscles in my ass won't go that way. well if you leg and hips are messed up from sitting and drinking (daily), it's going to transfer to your back.
I still have motivation problems....but, I find I can sleep w/ no or little pain it I do cardio for 20mins, and stretch my legs for 10-15mins after. do twisting stretch for back (on back, leg up in air, then lay it across body). one week....see how it feels.
Or, maybe i could just stop drinking and drink water.....well, i know which one will happen first
I still have motivation problems....but, I find I can sleep w/ no or little pain it I do cardio for 20mins, and stretch my legs for 10-15mins after. do twisting stretch for back (on back, leg up in air, then lay it across body). one week....see how it feels.
Or, maybe i could just stop drinking and drink water.....well, i know which one will happen first
I suffer from the same problem and my friends all look @ me like im crazy. Im not a heavy drinker and never have been. I only drink 1 or 2 glasses of wine a month, and I am now currently 29 but have gotton back pain whenever i've had any alcoholic beverages since i was 18. I've also noticed that my back pain is alot more intense and lasts for a longer period when i drank dark spirits or spirits that contain more alcholo in them than beer. Why does this happen to me??
I am also 24 and only have pain in the middle of my back while I drink Liqour it used to be just Vodka or Rum tonight hurts so bad I made myself puke it seems my that alcohol dehidraytes you and sucks the life from your back bones. Tonight is Tequilla night. I hurt so bad I made myself comit it up....any remidees?
Read about pancreatitis symptoms and relevance to alcohol. Has anyone here been diagnosed with that? Or have doctors suspected that?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
i started to get pain after exercise in the gym but i drove an old gpz sportsbike at the time 8-9yrs
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.
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.
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.
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.
How strange! I have had this issue for years, and completey thought I was the only one. I mean, how many people hae you heard complain about this?
I do not drink often at all, possibly once a month. But, occasionally even after one glass of wine, I get severe back pain in mainly my upper back, shoulder area. This pain grows more intense after I have had a drink, but it almost always present, my back has calcium deposits under both shoulder blades. If anyone has any concrete clue as to why this happens, I would cetainly appreciate it! :-)
I do not drink often at all, possibly once a month. But, occasionally even after one glass of wine, I get severe back pain in mainly my upper back, shoulder area. This pain grows more intense after I have had a drink, but it almost always present, my back has calcium deposits under both shoulder blades. If anyone has any concrete clue as to why this happens, I would cetainly appreciate it! :-)
i got the same problem ive been drinking since i was 13 and started drinking heavily since i was 14 and i started feeling the back pain last year and i now only drink once or twice a month. and after a night of drinking my urine is really dark too doctors tel me i need to get in shape and whatever i don't know it would be nice if someone could say what it is
I seem to have the same problem, but it only really occurs when I drink bourbon.
I'm a regular beer drinker, and i don't seem to have any problems when I drink beer (on a typical Friday/Saturday I usually have 15-20 beers), however when I drink bourbon, whiskey and sometimes Rum I get a pain in my lower right back. It seems to go away after about an hour if I have a glass of water, don't drink anymore, and lie down - but it kinda kills the rest of my night.
Any suggestions, or tips (apart from the obvious 'not drinking' solution) would be much appreciated. :-)
I'm a regular beer drinker, and i don't seem to have any problems when I drink beer (on a typical Friday/Saturday I usually have 15-20 beers), however when I drink bourbon, whiskey and sometimes Rum I get a pain in my lower right back. It seems to go away after about an hour if I have a glass of water, don't drink anymore, and lie down - but it kinda kills the rest of my night.
Any suggestions, or tips (apart from the obvious 'not drinking' solution) would be much appreciated. :-)