IS THERE A CURE FOR ALCOHOL INTOLERANCE!!?

I have got the same problem. Im due to go away with a group of mates and will have three nights of hard drinking. Im dreading it already and will come up with some excuse not to do it. I have never been a massive drinker but could hold my own with out fear of a hangover. Now its 4 drinks and Im sick the next day , or the 2 that I usually have now result in a headache for the bulk of the following day.

Hi, I have exactly the same problem.... a couple of drinks will leave me sweating, shivering, intense headache, not even able to hold down a glass of water (or painkillers), vomiting yellow bile every half an hour literally for the whole day after drinking. The worst part is how it sneaks up on you.... before I even stopped to think I was spending a day a week recovering from drinking, and another day recovering from the hangover! It was such a miserable waste of a year when I look back on it, and miserable for my boyfriend who would invairably be the one left looking after my fevered, stinking, vomiting self! I used to drink alot, so it wasn't untill I tried scaling my consumption right back to a sensible couple of pints, to no effect, that i realised that there must be a problem.

There's no point in my outlining my symptoms any further, but I'll give my opinion!

Firstly, I am not at all disaproving of drinking, or drinkers. I am never one to make a friend feel bad over the amount they have drunk, or the embarassing things they did... so I don't mean to sound preachy! Reading over everyones replies, I can't help noticing that alot of you say that you could 'drink as much as the rest of them', 'drink anyone under the table', etc.... and I'm not criticizing this, I used to be the same! I do think though that people sometimes have an attitude that it's our god given right to get drunk, and who would blame us, when all our friends are drinking and are fine, and all our social occasions are centred around drinking! But when it comes down to it, alcohol is a poison, it is bad for us, and especially if we over do it for years, sometimes we just can't handle it anymore. It is quite common really... I know it can be scary as the reaction is so incredibly extreme, I was terrified I had hepatitis or very bad liver damage or something... I didn't know what was wrong with me. It suddenly makes you aware of your own mortality, after feeling invincible for so long! I know it's unfair, and all our friends are still at it to no effect... but everyone is different, and we grow up differently, and our bodies can handle different things!

I went to the doctor, and he wasn't impressed, even by my extreme symptoms, and said 'ces't la vie... it happens!' I got blood tests and everything seems fine, which is a relief, and I have had to instead just learn new ways of socializing, and carefully figure out my boundaries of what i can drink, and whether, or when, I want to risk it.

I have found it has been wonderful for me. I lost at least a stone and a half in six months just from not drinking, and although we read all the time that alcoholic calories are just as real as food ones, it never really sank in for me... but it was so exciting when I realised when summer came round and I cringed out in my bikini, that I had gone from having an unhealthy looking, chubby body (nothing wrong with it, beautiful in it's own way, but not one I felt very confident with), to looking normal and healthy... I'm not skinny, but I don't look at myself and wish I was skinnier anymore! It was the easiest diet I've ever been on!

The second side effect is that I generally come across as being more mature and civilised, less of a drunken mess! I don't have the 'horrors' anymore, spending the whole week cringing at what I did the weekend before. I go to partys and sometimes I don't have fun, but because it was a c**p party, not because I wasn't drinking! If it's a good party, I come home energised and happy, and spend the week smiling away to myself about a lovely conversation I had or a friend I reconnected with, or a new friend I had made. Instead of drunkenly making friends with everyone and cringing if I see them sober again, I'll meet some wonderful person, get to know them, and the next time I bump into them I'll be so glad and happy to see them again! I come across so much better aswell.. I was always a fun drunk, but while being loved by your friends for being a cute drunk is nice, it's also nice to be loved by my friends for just being me, and if I'm not in the mood for the party, and I feel a bit stressed and cut off from the fun, it's not the END of the world.

I'm really not preaching here... I love my drunk friends at the best of times, the exuberant love, and giddy fun, and I am very glad to have them to lower the inhibitions and raise the mood of a party and to tell me I'm 'vary varry beaushifulll... hic'!

But it's not all bad.

The only thing that I miss is even just having that couple of drinks, for the taste, the warm feeling in my insides, the way they make cigarettes strangely delicious! I have been experimenting though, and after a year of no alcohol, I can drink a glass or two of white wine if I'm feeling healthy and eat well, but it's always a risk. I think I can drink clear spirits but I don't like the 'sober mind, drunk body' effect they have on me. I can't drink enough to get drunk, though very occasionally do, if the company and occasion is enough to justify the hangover... getting giddy-tipsy with my boyfriend or a good friend on a few glasses of white wine is a lovely treat. It's now something I like to share with someone occasionally instead of just use to get myself on the same level as a room full of people.

If I want to go to a big party and really let my hair down I will very occasionally take a pill or something... and I like to get stoned sometimes at dinner partys, which helps me relaxe and zone out when everyone else is getting drunkenly repetetive and loud! (I'm not recommending this, just being honest... I'm not perfect!).

Anyway, for those of you feeling cheated of fun or scared for your health, look on the bright side... there are alot of them! Drinking is a habit we get so used to we can overlook the downsides very easily, and there are alot of upsides to not being able to drink! I would NEVER, never never never, have learned all this if I hadn't developed an alcohol intolerance. I would love if it went away someday so I could drink more on occasion, but in the meantime I am more confident, happier, fitter, healthier, and I am still often among the last to go home, though completely sober!

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Thanks to everyone posting! I used to be a pretty big drinker and then I had this exact problem start when I was 21, now 24 I'm still trying to figure out a remedy! Like someone posted before- the mayo clinic has a good definition of alcohol intolerance- and I'm positive that's what I have. I'm a very social person and love the lifestyle of going out to bar for happy hour or a on friday night, so this condition has been a huge bummer for me. My current strategy is vodka and club soda on a fairly empty stomach... I figure if my digestive system is having so much difficulty digesting alcohol- I don't want to fill it up with other food or heavier drinks like beer... maybe someday they'll develop an enzyme supplement for us so we can drink without the painful headache and vomiting side effects!

that is me like a mirror, and it gets real boring after having this problem for 5 months now. I have tried non alc. beer and get stomach probs and 5 days of diareah. thought I might have celiac disease, and ive tried drinking celiac ok alcohol such as vodka and gin which are free of gluten but I still get a sour stomach and real dizzy drunk feeling after just a few drinks. My drink of choice is beer and I drank it everyday. one day I said a prayer to God, asking that I stopped drinking or would get sick and well now I am praying for him to take it back as I feel worse now than I ever did.

I've got a strange form of what I suspect is "Alcohol Intolerance". I start feeling sick (nausea) after I just swallow a little alcohol, and it's really annoying! If someone challenges me to have a big gulp of my cup, I may as well go to the bathroom because I'll be ready to puke. And it's not even that big of a gulp! 

That sounds like it could be a gluten allergy. If it is only beer usually, but then you had wine and pasta, that would make sense. Try a gluten free meal with a gluten free drink. Maybe that will help??

I have this same EXACT problem as does my mother. It started with an intolerance to Malt drinks, (that covers pretty much anything that comes in a 6 pack, and dark red wines) I assumed I had a Malt allergy, so I switched to liquor, that gave me about another 4 months of drinking without getting sick. Then I started having the same problem with liquors too,  so I tried to narrow it down by limiting myself to one drink on the nights when I go out, of just one type of liquor. I tried flavored, non-flavored, colored, clear, mixed, not mixed. After taking a sip of my friends screw driver and puking that yellow bile the next morning I pretty much gave up. HOWEVER, after talking to my mom she said she had a similar (less extreme) issue. Her intolerance to malt drinks was MAGNIFIED by birth control. Now I can't tell what gender everyone is on here, but by some long shot do you all happen to be a birth control? 

after researching I have found that this could be associated with ldehyde dehydrogene deficiency which is an enzyme your body produces to break down the alcohol, a deficiency in this enzyme will cause you to have severe hang over symtoms within a couple of hours of drinking, without the sufficient amount of this enzime you body takes longer to break down the alcohol. there are suppliments you can take to activate this enzyme to do it job.  look up idehyde dehydrogene deficiency.  

Did you ever find a cure for this drinking problem? I have the same issue. I can and do get really sick after only 2 beers.

I started vomiting after alcohol 3 months after i started taking birth control so that was my first thought as well. But after talking to mu doctor and doing research i couldnt find anything to back this up. Just wondering if you ever got to the bottom of it?

You might have Celiac or gluten intolerance if it is making you throw up right away. Simple blood test can check, just ask your doctor for a Celiac panel.

As someone who suffers from this same problem, most of the replies on here are moronic, and I'm being extra nice. Oh yeah it's totally psychological, that's why I'm sick for DAYS after one glass of wine. Here's hoping someone with a brain can offer some advice.

The headache you experience the next day is the result of dehydration. Alcohol makes the kidneys release extra fluid. It is highly recommended to drink enough water before and after consuming alcohol. You should also use a hangover pill solution, which is made up of natural substances and has no adverse reactions. By taking these hangover tablets you can prevent the hangover signs from happening. One of the safest and effective hangover pill is the HangoverCaps.

I keep looking up the twisted tea stomach and aching after drinking it. Can find no reason. I am a medical transcriptionist so was curious and no I didn't over drink it. I guess that I just simp;y can not drink the stuff. WEIRD!!!! There are a few on line questions but not many. I do expect a lot more however.