Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group Alcohol Helps??

never drank much in the past. never acquired a taste for beer and as a poor college student, that was the only free alcohol, thus never drank much even back then. plus, as tink said, i too was a "cheap date", half a glass of wine in a dark restaurant over a romantic dinner and all i wanted to do was curl up and take a nap (think it has to do with my sugar metabolism issues, though alcohol not a sugar, metabolism related sort of....), so just never drank much, but did like a little wine with dinner. but pretty much gave it up when i developed the severe gastritis, per doctor's orders and remembering how much alcohol bothered my grandfather's ulcer. then i started taking more and more drugs processed by the liver and thought, i want to keep my liver extra healthy for that reason. then i started a muscle relaxant which by itself drops my BP so low, afraid if i mixed it with alcohol, i may never wake up. though with that said, i mostly take the muscle relaxant at bedtime and it only lasts in my blood stream for 6 hours, so maybe i'll have a sip or two of wine or a liquor now many hours before, so the two aren't in my blood stream at the same time. but i have wondered, if i felt that it were safe to mix drugs and alcohol, could the alcohol reduce the pain? oh well, at this point, i take enough drugs that shouldn't be mixed with alcohol, that i doubt i'll be doing that experiment, might have been nice though.