I have severe wrist pain after drinking wine. I am so glad to see I am not the only one. Red wine also gives me migraines. Some white wines also affect my wrist.
I'm so glad i read this, but its only one knee thats hurting. I had mri they diagnoised transient osteoporsis, said it would go away by itself. I think I will cut out my 2/3 glasses of red wine everynight and see if that helps.
Yes, alcohol and joint pain are related. Alcohol
is a diuretic ( which makes the body lose more
water and urinate more ) which leads to dehydration.
As the ligaments ( which are soft tissues sandwiched
between the bones ) contain lots of water, and needs
water periodically to have it soft and spongy,
drinking alcohol leads to excess removal of water
from the body, thereby dehydrating the several
body parts. The ligaments are one of the first
to get affected by dehydration, as they contain
lots of water. When the dried out ligaments are no
longer able to provide the soft cushioning between
the bones at the joints,
any movement of the joints can lead to
unbearable pain and arthritis.
Drinking water periodically helps in reducing
the adverse effects of alcohol.
is a diuretic ( which makes the body lose more
water and urinate more ) which leads to dehydration.
As the ligaments ( which are soft tissues sandwiched
between the bones ) contain lots of water, and needs
water periodically to have it soft and spongy,
drinking alcohol leads to excess removal of water
from the body, thereby dehydrating the several
body parts. The ligaments are one of the first
to get affected by dehydration, as they contain
lots of water. When the dried out ligaments are no
longer able to provide the soft cushioning between
the bones at the joints,
any movement of the joints can lead to
unbearable pain and arthritis.
Drinking water periodically helps in reducing
the adverse effects of alcohol.
Not a doctor here but I think that one has to consider the possibility of osteonecrosis. Could also be caused by dehydration where the cartilage becomes thinner due to a lack of fluids to lubricate it.
This recently started happening to me too. It's happened three times and each of those nights I drank sex on the beach (orange and cranberry juice with vodka). I thought maybe it was too much sugar or something because it doesn't happen when I drink other drinks. From reading this forum it seems like it's dehydration. So for everyone reading this, you should drink a Gatorade before bed on nights you drink heavily (for the electrolytes). I used to do this when I kept waking up super thirsty and it helped. Now I just drink water before bed and I'm usually good. I'm gonna drink a Gatorade next time I sip on sex on the beaches to see if it helps. As for the achy knees, once they come I drink some water, take an anti-inflammatory and walk around. I don't feel the pain while I walk around but it comes right back when I stop. Those are the tips I have, I hope they help someone out!
Chalk me up as another 'me too'. I have been a social drinker my whole life, I am now 39 and just recently have noticed that if I have just a few beers, I am in agony the entire next day. My wrists, fingers, shoulders have terrible joint pain. The last two times it happened, I had 4-5 beers over the course of the evening. I was not drunk by any means, no way I should have been near any 'hangover' stage. I have been tested for rhumetoid arthritis as well as gout, both were negative. I did have a vit D deficiancy..but I have been treated for that and I am still experiencing this pain. I reallly hate to give up drinking socially, but it appears Im going to have to. While its comforting to know others have a similar experience, its frustrating that the doctors dont take it more seriously that there is a correlation other than dehydration. I drink plenty of water when I drink, and it doesnt help a bit....or if it does, not enough!
alchohal whether wine or beer has a tendency to dehydrate ones body and maybe could cause joints to be lacking in the fluids they need or manufacture,..also someone on here said when they were sick it would happen to...could apply there because of fever or if your sick at your stomach you would be loosing a lot of fluids...i am wondering about this myself for same reasons..a friend of mine is having back surgery and the surgeon said if he drinks regularly that it would inhibit healing alot..
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After I have a drink or two my knees are sore and stiff within 1-2 hours. They just ache. I notice the stiffness in other joints also just not as bad. It seems to be any place that I have stressed or injured in the past. I keep thinking that it is all the places that I will get arthritis. I'm almost 40 and it is kind of scarey not knowing why this happens. It is nice to know it not only happens to me. I also notice it when I'm getting tired or worn out. I wonder if it is somehow related to the same effects that alcohol has on people with gout. To drink or not to drink?
After I have a drink or two my knees are sore and stiff within 1-2 hours. They just ache. I notice the stiffness in other joints also just not as bad. It seems to be any place that I have stressed or injured in the past. I keep thinking that it is all the places that I will get arthritis. I'm almost 40 and it is kind of scarey not knowing why this happens. It is nice to know it not only happens to me. I also notice it when I'm getting tired or worn out. I wonder if it is somehow related to the same effects that alcohol has on people with gout. To drink or not to drink?
again, so nice to see im not alone... Most people laugh and say its because I did too much heavy lifting the night before (ie, lifting the glasses to drink from!).
After drinking some alcohol, the next day I always have sore wrists, elbows, and the palms of my hands inside where the tendons and bones are. It's so strange and noone else I have spoken to about it has any idea what it could be.
Specifically today my hands/fingers/wrists/elbows are aching quite a lot (not so good when my job is 90% typing!). I drank quite a lot of white wine yesterday (it was mother's day!) and definitely feeling the pain today. I really think it has something to do with dehydration.
After drinking some alcohol, the next day I always have sore wrists, elbows, and the palms of my hands inside where the tendons and bones are. It's so strange and noone else I have spoken to about it has any idea what it could be.
Specifically today my hands/fingers/wrists/elbows are aching quite a lot (not so good when my job is 90% typing!). I drank quite a lot of white wine yesterday (it was mother's day!) and definitely feeling the pain today. I really think it has something to do with dehydration.
I am so pleased that I found this board. I have been suffering stiff joints of late anyway and as a general rule, I don't drink alcohol. But last night I did have 3 or 4 cherry brandy's! And this morning I couldn't believe that all my joints were stiff and achy... my knees, my wrists, my knuckles, my hips and my elbows. I said to my hubbie, it must be something to do with drinking, but he didn't believe me!
My younger sister has recently been diagnosed with arthritis and I am wondering if my recent hip and elbow pains have been a sign of that too. But will definitely stay away from alcohol in future!!
My younger sister has recently been diagnosed with arthritis and I am wondering if my recent hip and elbow pains have been a sign of that too. But will definitely stay away from alcohol in future!!
I'm 43 and around 38, while traveling cheap, I had a bit of a drinking binge, within a month, my knuckles (first one only) were almost unusable with pain, no swelling, no redness, just extreme sensitivity to side motion and squeezing.
I endured this for 6 months, self medicated with chondroitin, MSM, etc, as my mother has osteoarthritis.
Upon return home, I cleaned up, stopped drinking and pain eventually disappeared after two years.
Since then, even small doses of alcohol or red meat induces similar but smaller pain in same first joints, sticks around for 5-7 days, with no alcohol or red meat, but stays forever and ever as soon as I allow a mouthful of either.
I've been blood tested for arthritis and gout every two years since, absolutely so evidence of either in my blood.
Now I'm thinking maybe pseudogout...
Only other odd symptom is I may have hip bursitis, this does not seem to vary with food/drink habbits.
I endured this for 6 months, self medicated with chondroitin, MSM, etc, as my mother has osteoarthritis.
Upon return home, I cleaned up, stopped drinking and pain eventually disappeared after two years.
Since then, even small doses of alcohol or red meat induces similar but smaller pain in same first joints, sticks around for 5-7 days, with no alcohol or red meat, but stays forever and ever as soon as I allow a mouthful of either.
I've been blood tested for arthritis and gout every two years since, absolutely so evidence of either in my blood.
Now I'm thinking maybe pseudogout...
Only other odd symptom is I may have hip bursitis, this does not seem to vary with food/drink habbits.
Me too!!
I have been drinking socially, regularly and on off quite heavily since I was 16 like most of us. I have just turned 40. I have always been able to handle my drink, dont get me wrong, I have woke up with a few weird looking women and the odd traffic sign, but generally I can go the distance without making too much of a tool of myself. I am a qualified professional and apart from a couple of moody mondays here in there over the years, I have lead a responsible hard working life.
I have always drunk Stella Artois or lagers over 5%. Later in the night, when I cant eat another Stella, gin and tonic is my short of choice, although I like a few slammers and a couple of shots and at home I am partial to a bottle of red. I drink nearly every weekend, sometimes both nights, and maybe once in the week.
About 18 months ago I kept getting a sore wrist and sore knuckles in one hand with my tendons appearing tight, drawing my little finger and ring finger towards my palms. The pain was pretty tough and I got myself off to the doctors who didnt know what it was but issued me with some anti-biotics and some anti-inflammatory tablets. Within a few days the pain had gone.
A week or so later the pain returned, but in the other hand and wrist and knuckles, so I went to the doctors and said to him that whatever infection he thought I had was not destroyed completely by the tablets and has moved round my body. He issued me with some more anti-biotics and more anti-inflamms. Again two days later, all cleared up. Two weeks later I was in to see him again, this time demanding tests, as I had been worried about it and thought I had some sort of rheumatoid arthiritis or something. He took blood samples and issues me more tablets. On leaving the surgery this time, he asked if I drink and I said that I did he said, just cut it out for a bit, see what difference there is.
This made me think. I had been a lover of Stella for years, but the last 18 months I had a love affair with Strongbow and maybe this was the cause. I stopped drinkng for 2 or 3 weeks and the pain went. I switched back to Stella when I did have a pint and all was good, no problems.
Last weekend I went out and had a skin full of Stella and a bucket load of gin and tonics and I am now sitting here with terrible joint pain in my left wrist, and right shoulder. It has just woken me up. This is two days after the event. I have been sat on this internet for two hours trying to find out what it is.
My conclusion::
All alcohol causes these problems with the joints. As each person is different and our bodies and joints are all different, then different alcohol afffects us all differently. But it is alcohol and it is the joints. Because this has only recently started to happen to me, and it happens whether I have just three pints or if I have ten pints, 3 shorts, 4 slammers and two shots, I believe that maybe, over a period of time, depostis of something have been collecting on certain joints over a sustained period and only a little more deposit of whatever it is or slight dehydration can cause that particular joint to flare up.
If you imagine your joint as an empty pint glass that has slowly, over the course of your drinking life, been filling up with a deposit of some sort or other, there comes to the point where it is full up. Up until this point, you never have a problem with that joint and you arent even aware that there is a build up of any kind. But once that glass is full, every time you add to it, and it spills over the edge, you are in pain. One glass of wine could do it, so could ten pints.
What I need to know...
Is there any way of emptying this pint glass and starting again?
Is there anything I can take to stop the pain in future?
Is there anyway to stop this happening?
Are my drinking days behind me?
Hope this was useful...Laters
Charlie
I have been drinking socially, regularly and on off quite heavily since I was 16 like most of us. I have just turned 40. I have always been able to handle my drink, dont get me wrong, I have woke up with a few weird looking women and the odd traffic sign, but generally I can go the distance without making too much of a tool of myself. I am a qualified professional and apart from a couple of moody mondays here in there over the years, I have lead a responsible hard working life.
I have always drunk Stella Artois or lagers over 5%. Later in the night, when I cant eat another Stella, gin and tonic is my short of choice, although I like a few slammers and a couple of shots and at home I am partial to a bottle of red. I drink nearly every weekend, sometimes both nights, and maybe once in the week.
About 18 months ago I kept getting a sore wrist and sore knuckles in one hand with my tendons appearing tight, drawing my little finger and ring finger towards my palms. The pain was pretty tough and I got myself off to the doctors who didnt know what it was but issued me with some anti-biotics and some anti-inflammatory tablets. Within a few days the pain had gone.
A week or so later the pain returned, but in the other hand and wrist and knuckles, so I went to the doctors and said to him that whatever infection he thought I had was not destroyed completely by the tablets and has moved round my body. He issued me with some more anti-biotics and more anti-inflamms. Again two days later, all cleared up. Two weeks later I was in to see him again, this time demanding tests, as I had been worried about it and thought I had some sort of rheumatoid arthiritis or something. He took blood samples and issues me more tablets. On leaving the surgery this time, he asked if I drink and I said that I did he said, just cut it out for a bit, see what difference there is.
This made me think. I had been a lover of Stella for years, but the last 18 months I had a love affair with Strongbow and maybe this was the cause. I stopped drinkng for 2 or 3 weeks and the pain went. I switched back to Stella when I did have a pint and all was good, no problems.
Last weekend I went out and had a skin full of Stella and a bucket load of gin and tonics and I am now sitting here with terrible joint pain in my left wrist, and right shoulder. It has just woken me up. This is two days after the event. I have been sat on this internet for two hours trying to find out what it is.
My conclusion::
All alcohol causes these problems with the joints. As each person is different and our bodies and joints are all different, then different alcohol afffects us all differently. But it is alcohol and it is the joints. Because this has only recently started to happen to me, and it happens whether I have just three pints or if I have ten pints, 3 shorts, 4 slammers and two shots, I believe that maybe, over a period of time, depostis of something have been collecting on certain joints over a sustained period and only a little more deposit of whatever it is or slight dehydration can cause that particular joint to flare up.
If you imagine your joint as an empty pint glass that has slowly, over the course of your drinking life, been filling up with a deposit of some sort or other, there comes to the point where it is full up. Up until this point, you never have a problem with that joint and you arent even aware that there is a build up of any kind. But once that glass is full, every time you add to it, and it spills over the edge, you are in pain. One glass of wine could do it, so could ten pints.
What I need to know...
Is there any way of emptying this pint glass and starting again?
Is there anything I can take to stop the pain in future?
Is there anyway to stop this happening?
Are my drinking days behind me?
Hope this was useful...Laters
Charlie
The association with drinking and pain from tendonitis is beginning to make sense to me. For the last two night I have been going to some friends for dinner and we have had a couple of drinks while waiting for dinner to be ready. After coming home and going to bed I am so uncomfortable with aching and pain that I don't really settle down until 1 or 2 in the morning. That seems to be the only thing different that I am doing so........ guess I'll stick to water with a twist of lime and see how I feel.
I agree. I just got home from a buddy's house (our usually party spot), after waking up on his living room floor...lol.
Im used to drinking whatever...hard liquors, cheap beer, good beer, malts, absinthe, red and white wines, etc, and mixing any number of different alcohols...and normally always fine (as far my joints go, besides an occassional stiff knee or shoulder).
Today was a completely different though. I woke up with (and still have...a few hours later) pretty severe pain in my right knee. I didnt drink a very large amount compared to my normal nights there...a couple of Jager bombs, a glass of muscato wine (a white dessert wine, a margarita, and a few cheap beers (Keystone light...yuck)
The only different variable is the fact that i'm on day 4 of a cold.
So my advice...if you suffer from joint pain when drinking, then you should definetly stay sober when your sick.
Im used to drinking whatever...hard liquors, cheap beer, good beer, malts, absinthe, red and white wines, etc, and mixing any number of different alcohols...and normally always fine (as far my joints go, besides an occassional stiff knee or shoulder).
Today was a completely different though. I woke up with (and still have...a few hours later) pretty severe pain in my right knee. I didnt drink a very large amount compared to my normal nights there...a couple of Jager bombs, a glass of muscato wine (a white dessert wine, a margarita, and a few cheap beers (Keystone light...yuck)
The only different variable is the fact that i'm on day 4 of a cold.
So my advice...if you suffer from joint pain when drinking, then you should definetly stay sober when your sick.
Drinking alkohol causes severe pain in one side of my hip, only started since having an operation for FAI on it tho..