leg pain after alcohol

thanks dad...im going through a shitty time time at the mo....yr post has given me hope. My dad died 12 years ago but I appreciate the sentiment. regards, Dom UK

When drinking alcohol the body produces acid lactic. It generally goes to the leg and causes pain, this can happen right after or next day. The solution is to drink water to dilute alcohol in the body (as you drink or before going to bed) and as someone mentioned eat bananas for the potassium and pasta for carbohydrate next day...

Thanks slash, you've put my mind at rest a bit, since ive had an alcoholic partner my drinking has certainly risen too, and i am also getting leg pains especially at night, and i've herad about the potassium in bananas but didnt relate it to that, so thanks a bunch of bananas!!! mate

Was just discussing this with a friend. i seem to get muscle cramps in my legs, not always, but i do notice after i've been drinking. not a big drinker, but on the weekends we def indulge. so i wouldn't describe mine as pain. but cramps in the oddest places. running down the inside of my thigh and on the tops of my ankles, sometime my shins. weird...

Thank you so mucn everybody! Would have just thought my leg pain was nothing but im gonna go to docs and see. I do admitt im a heavy drinker, 18 years old and get drunk 3-5 times a week.. I know its alot anyway never mind with this

I am an RN who had a gastric by pass 10 yrs ago. with wine I am Ok but anything harder I have noticed lately if I stretch my legs or back in my sleep I get the worse cramps and for 30 min I have to stay up at night stretching and relaxing my leg cramps. I am not a regular drinker but I have noticed if I take calcium mixed with magnisium then the cramps don't occur or or are alot less sever. I do agree with Slash alcohol does deplede your electrolytes and vit from your liver. If you have to drink alcohol for an occasion then do drink plenty of water along with it ( 2 cups of water for each cup of alcohol consumed) and take MVI and calcium mixed with magnesium for women 1500 mg before you drink alcohol. It does incredibly ease the severity of your pain. hope my experience helps you a bit. Good luck.

I take hydrocodine, and if i take enough and drink my legs dont hury but if i dont take what im used to my legs hurt me so bad i cant function or sleep at night whats the problem??????????

 

I drink on a regular basis and the pain in my legs has begun to keep me awake and I feel the urge to massage the muscle area of my shins. I notice that it affects my left leg the most. At the same time my hands have been numb and once again, mostly in the left side. This started to happen a few weeks ago and having read these posts, without ANY doubt I am going to give up the booze. I will re-post in a few weeks to let you know how I get on.

Absolutely correct.Iam practising the same since long

I am going through the same pain my left leg paining around knee joint when took some drink . Even though I took a small amount of drink after 15 days still it starts paining in next day morning

I consulted Doctor & he said this is due to level of uric acid get increased in your body after drink.
Ideally body throws the uric acid out of body via urine but that not happening in my case.

I just don't why my digesting system is so poor ?

Can we improve the digesting system so it throws the uric acid out of the body?

43 year old male. In the last year I've been getting arthritis in my hands and feet. Initially what bothered me was my right groin area. Then my left groin. Then I began having aches in my legs from groin down to feet. The only way I can really describe it is it feels like the growing pains I had when I was 12 or so. Doctors could not explain what was going on. Then I started noticing what I believe to be arthritis in my hands and feet; sore knuckles on hands and big toes, sore balls of feet. I started chalking my leg pain up to arthritis as well as nobody could find anything wrong. After reading some compelling articles about diet and arthritis, I decided to give vegan diet a try. Starting Jan. 2, 2013 I consumed no animal products whatsoever for 12 days straight. In addition, I had no caffeine and no alcohol. My alcohol consumption had been increasing over the last few years to the point of having 3-4 beers every night with weekends sometimes 5-7 night. After the 12 days, I continued the vegan diet but reintroduced caffeine and alcohol. My consumption of alcohol has been minimal though - 1 beer every other day, a couple nights 2 beers. Following all this, my arthritis has been improved as have the achy legs/groin.

Last night, we had some people over and I drank more than I have in over a month - 4 beers (maybe 5?) and a little wine. This morning when I awoke, before even getting out of bed I felt it; the pain in the groin. As I stood and walked my legs felt as if I'd ran a marathon yesterday. Achy, stiff and uncomfortable all day today. I haven't had to take pain meds in over a month and today I really needed it. The only thing different was the amount of alcohol. That's it. Too much alcohol combined with my age. I didn't believe that what or how much I was drinking would have anything to do with the leg pain but, obviously it does. The pain this morning prompted me to do a search and I found this site with many others saying something similar.

I believe I have two different things going on, the arthritis from a horrible standard American diet and the leg pain from too much alcohol. I will be back to doing what I did the first 12 days of new diet. I wanted to share in case someone else going through this with similar alcohol consumption and of the same age.

Severe muscle cramps occur either in calfs or inner thighs. This occurs about six or seven hours into the night while I'm sleeping after having drunk two or three beers. I have not had the problem with wine or other alcoholic drinks. Beer, and particularly the richer lagers and ales, seem to be the correlation to the problem. I would like to hear why this is a seemingly predominant beer problem.

I get the same thing.  Terrible pain, feeling cold, can't sleep.  I'm not sure if this will help others, but I find that I can usually avoid this if I drink lots of water while consuming the alcohol.  I'm normally a very dehydrated person and I think the alcohol consumption really throws my body out of whack if I don't make an effort to hydrate WHILE drinking alcohol (not after).  I find that if I have a glass of water with each glass of alcohol, I can avoid these issues.  Although i don't think that you need to drink water to get the hydration, you should probably avoid drinking diuretics like coke, etc., as these will tend to make you more dehydrated. 

I felt similar pain long ago when I visited one of the African countries and went to the hospital,I was told it's a result of excessive drinking. I bought a pain killer and a deep-freeze cool spray. After that,I felt better, it reoccured again and I massaged my legs with hot-balm...I guess it worked cos' I felt better

The discussions seem to throw light over some problems, I have been struggling with. Walking results in a lot of pain just below the knee, all round on top portion of the tibia-fibula and then I cannot raise my leg or bend my knee... sometimes there is also a driving pain in the shin bone side regions. If I start and exercise pattern with adequate warming up and jogging,  legs are much better, and pains recede. Then again sudden unexplained pains have been common in the foot regions of the left leg. These start at night through sleep hours, and the leg is quite stiff then. There has been no fixed pattern ... though its always on the left leg.., it is generally then around the joints, or arch of the foot, ... lot of stiffness and pain on movement..). I am not a regular drinker, but tend to drink enough to get high, when ever I do so. The pain starts after about a day or so... particularly,... particularly,  if I have not exercise the next day (I think).

Will try lesser quantities, exercise the very next day, and see next time, before I decide to give up completely.