Hi,
It depends how often and quickly you drink it.
I had cut down to 1 bottle a week before starting the NSD. Now there is not much else to snack on I am up to 2 or 3 bottles a week. Personally, I would not want to go much higher than that.
I don't often go for the Wolf Blass yellow label as its quite expensive here (about £9).
Jon
Hey Darryn
You are a proper nutter!
Firstly, you need to put the bottle of wine into some sort of context! Are you talking about drinking 1 bottle a week, 1 bottle a day, 1 bottle for breakfast - 1 for lunch and a proper meal in the evening (do you get the slimfast adverts? Do you see what I did there?!!!)
Do you see where I'm going with this???!!!
Or when you say how much is too much are you talking about price?
(How much Cabernet Sauvignon had you drunk when you wrote this post??!!!)
Price is less important than volume - saying that drinking 750ml or vinegar can't be good for you!!!!
Good luck with your new "hobby"!!!!!!!!!!!!lol
To be an alcoholic, your drinking has to negatively impact your life and relationships. If you try to cut back or quit and are unable to, that's another sign. If your significant others think you drink too much, maybe you do.
The quality of the alcohol is not nearly as important as the effect it has on your life.
Not being a wine drinker myself, I have no opinion about where you get the bottle, but I am also curious about the time frame in which you drink that bottle.
Hey Darryn - you need to research the Chardonnay Cure - if you haven't done so already. supposedly chardonnay kills klebs so somewhere out there in internet world it says drinking it can get rid of AS. I tried it, it didn't work;) i prefer red wine too. but joking aside, wine makes my arthritis worse the next day
, tho it nicely eases symptoms during the imbiding)
When my oldest was 4 and his sister 2, I found myself easily polishing off a bottle of cab in the evenings, but anyone with a 4 and 2 year old can probably appreciate that. I'm petite tho, it was beginning to be a problem - I then got pregnant with 3rd - put a quick end to that thankfully. For the health benefits - they say men can have up to two glasses a night!
Hey Darryn
I kinda thought you were joking with this post?
This is my serious answer:
UK daily drinking guidelines for wine are:
12% 1.5 units (125ml small glass) or 2.1 units (175ml standard glass)
14% 1.75 units (125ml small glass) or 2.45 units(175ml standard glass)
Recommended daily units for men 3-4 per day
Recommended daily units for women 2-3 units per day
You should not save these units up and binge drink in one evening, however, as that is more dangerous than drinking slightly more units on a daily basis.
You should have at least 1 alcohol free day per week.
My personal take on the question "am I an alcoholic" is that if you are asking the question the answer is probably yes, or at least you are in a position where you soon could be.
I used to drink puh-lenty. As an archaeologist I did the vast majority of my studying in the pub and we often joked about the fact that archaeologists have the highest per capita numbers of alcoholics than any other profession (true or not, we believed it and encouraged it!). As a naval officer, drinking was a cultural norm. Being single as well meant I would prowl the bars downtown four nights a week and had a particularly active social life.
I just considered myself to be a guy with healthy appetites for wine, women and song but when I went to see a head shrink he was so shocked to hear about me blowing a paycheck on a weekend bender and such that he was convinced that I was a raging alcoholic. He wrote stuff in my files that still make it difficult for me as every medical professional I speak to asks me if I'm drinking.
Booze never affected my work or my relationships, I never got into fights or got in trouble with the police. I may have written a few exams while still drunk from the night before but I still got good grades? I could take a drink or not without any sort of internal struggle...of course, back then I always chose to have the drink.
Now I almost never drink. It started with the red wine actually. I found that my migraines would be kicked off by drinking cheaper red wines. Certain brands, typically more expensive ones would not have this effect but it was enough to put me off drinking. Then my marriage started to suffer because of the amount of drinking my wife and I did. I didn't like what I saw in my wife after she had been drinking so I stopped drinking to get a more objective view on the situation. I just don't like to drink anymore.
I'll have a drink anytime I like but that is quite rare nowadays - for example, having one drink in a month would be unusual. I miss my martinis. A very dirty vodka martini is just wonderful and all the olives would often be my "dinner" lol. If I had my way, there would be a nice bottle of stoli in the freezer so I could have a martini once in a while but that won't work. Booze doesn't last in my house.
Things are much better in my marriage nowadays. Maybe the marriage counseling helped some? My wife still drinks but even she is beginning to ease up on it now.
Used properly, booze can be a wonderful thing and I have nothing against someone enjoying a drink - it is great stuff. So many of the people I've known over the years were likely "functioning alcoholics" whatever that is supposed to mean but used in moderation, a little booze, especially red wine, can be good for your health.
Have a drink, relax, enjoy life since it is so short and brutal anyway...personally, I'd rather have some water or a cup of tea.
Enjoy life,
Chris
i drank the whole bottle last night. 750ml in about 5 hours. i got 4 more in the cupboard so i think ill have a bit more tonight not sure how much yet.
depends entirely on why you're drinking, and how. if you're drinking to get away from negative emotions in your normal sober state, that's unhealthy. if you're drinking on your own solely to get drunk, that's probably unhealthy. if whenever you drink you can't control how much you drink, that's unhealthy. if you often drink yourself unconscious, that's unhealthy.
that said, I don't think there's anything wrong with drinking any amount of alcohol at the appropriate time, as long as you can mantain good composure and it doesn't negatively impact others. it's all down to your lifestyle.
Do YOU think you're an alcoholic?
Hey I've read that alcohol can produce an undesirable result when taken with medication. Heres what I quoted from another site
The interaction of medication and alcohol is based on the fact that the body metabolizes both in a similar fashion. One of the most basic ways a person’s medication can be affected by the use of alcohol is that the drug’s effectiveness may be minimized. Simply put, both the alcohol and the drug will compete for the body’s resources so that they can be broken down. The longer the drug stays in the body, the greater the likelihood of the patient experiencing side effects.
For those who have been consuming alcohol for a long time, less of the drug will be available to the body. The alcohol stimulates the production of certain enzymes that have the effect of metabolizing the drugs quickly. The end result is that there is not much of the drug left in the body to do its work. The effects of long term alcohol use in this respect can be felt even for weeks after the person has stopped drinking. To counteract this, doctors may prescribe the drug in higher doses which poses an increased risk of side effects.
Another dangerous consequence of this interaction occurs when enzyme production stimulated by persistent alcohol use converts certain drugs into poisonous compounds. This can lead to organ damage, particularly the liver. Alcohol use can also intensify the effects of certain sedatives, which could have serious implications for the brain.
Well, although I'm not exactly sure how much u gotta consume to get these effects but...Its always good to know.....
The day I was diagnose with AS, I was told by my rheumatologist to stay off drinking and smoking.
Alcohol also takes a long time to completely get out of the system.
I have always been a beer guy. tried the wine thing, the only way I can handle that line is as a grape or a raisin. I prefer beer goggles easier for me to gauge when I have had enough. A lot of folks in the Law enforcement profession drink and drink hard. I never understood why, maybe it is a way to deal with tension. I don't drink to often anymore maybe four or five beers a week. I was drinking pretty heavy in 1996, One of the Troopers on my crew was shot in the head during a high speed car chase. I watched him pass away in his wifes arms an hour later. He left a young wife and two kids behind. Did not really notice it but I was putting it away, thank God I married above myself she brought me around. Still all in all I like a ice cold beer now and then.
ETTE.
Darrel
That is such a heartbreaking story...
It is surprising to hear that so many of you can drink alcohol without ill effects healthwise. I love it and can barely tolerate it at all at this point, it just makes me feel completely ill in every way. Needless to say it is a migraine trigger.
Also, it is interesting to see the UK guidelines for consumption (or whatever it is officially called) actually referred to...but that is from my perspective in NH, the 'live free or die' state. We have state run liquor stores here, quite the opposite.
Ut has state run liquor stores also. Love New Hampshires motto.
ETTE.
Darrel.
i'm not really sure what constitutes a healthy amount of alcohol, specifically wine, and what constitutes an unhealthy amount. due to blood sugar issues, i could never have more than 1 mixed drink or 1/2 a glass of wine, even that little bit of alcohol would upset my blood sugar and make me so tired to the point i'd just want to crash. then when i developed gastritis, alcohol was one of the things recommended to be eliminated completely, though i've never notice it affect my stomach. still it was easy to cut out cause i never had much to begin with. and then like someone else mentioned, i started taking enough medications processed by the liver, including a muscle relaxant which couldn't be combined with alcohol that i just don't drink alcohol any more. maybe a sip of wine if hubby has a good one for me to taste, or a sip of a few other things around the house, things like amaretto, frangelica, etc. i've had relatives that definitely drank too much. i think if its negatively impacting one's health or one's life, then its too much. if its not negatively impacting either, then its probably fine, and as others have mentioned a little bit of alcohol each day has been shown to have health benefits so long as one doesn't have insulin resistance or diabetes or take medications that are contraindicated. think its like anything else, "everything in moderation, nothing in excess."
i lost a good friend to alcohol nearly 3 years ago, diabetic. lite beer was his poison & a puff of his girlfriends cig's - problem was he was injecting insulin dependent for diabetes. aged 37 he was few years older than me, we were mates since 12 years old lived across the road growing up. We were drinking beer weekends at 14 years old in the park (gang of about 10 -20). He then got a job on the railway train kitchen as cook, they would drink beer breakfast till bed. 25 years on he has left 5 children behind, x-wife, girlfriend.
First time i drank wine at 15, i ended up in hospital with a stomach pump after about 4 liters of the stuff....when i woke up out of that i was in the army - thanks mum. lol
i might have arthritis but i lived threw the excesses. I dont want to make the same mistakes ive already made - but i still want to have pleasures within reasonably safe limits.
...time to crack open a bottle of Jacob's Creek Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 reserve do some serious relaxing exercises.
I would say you have a problem if you can't walk away...or you think you HAVE to have it.
I hope that you are not or not headed there, it is always better to quit rather than become addicted.
Lisa
So a 750ml bottle is like four and a half glasses or so right? I can't see how that is a big deal. You like wine, so what?
Like nemesys and others have said, it is what you think that really matters right now.
Cheers,
Chris