Crohn's and Alcohol

I can't drink....I have tried to enjoy a cooler every now and then but it seems to cramp me up big time....I am also in a flare so that does not help at all. I hope by summer I can sip a little without it causing me a problem but I am not holding my breath on that one.

I have never found that alcohol affects me one way or another.

However, this is a question I have a problem with on all doctors forms and everywhere you encounter it. I drink socially, one or two drinks, if I am in the mood and if I am at a party or event. It works out to about 20 drinks a year. There are no options for that. During my most recent admission to the hospital for surgery, the nurse grilled me. So how many drinks a week is that? Ok how many every 2 weeks? A month? She wouldn't just take I drink infrequently as an answer even when I gave her a number. I might have 8 drinks in one month then go 3 or 4 months without drinking again, so how do you average that out?

I will have an occasional glass of wine, but only when I'm feeling great. If my gut is in any kind of distress, mild or worse, wine absolutely will not go down.

I used to enjoy bloody mary, but booze and myself doesn't mix. I contacted hep c from blood trans. back in 1970, and I just never had desire to drink. don't know if subconsciencely, liver told me not to like liquor. I don't really like taste as well. don't evan like smell of beer or wine. when I have had a drink, it doesn't bother stomach at all, it's the taste

AG

I almost never drink. Wine is a never for me, it goes right through me. Being a diabetic I try not to drink, but occasionally I will cheat and have one or two. Bad experience once with too much to drink and it made my sugar drop too quickly and I had a seizure so no more then 2 at one time.

You all might laugh, and I'm sure the negative crowd will want to weigh in, but I have found that my 2 glasses of S. American red wine actually helps keep me more regular. If I go without for a couple days things really speed up down there. Maybe it's because the S. American reds are loaded with resveratrol-who knows but if it works for me.......

  I believe I 2 seem 2 have the same views on the bottle as all of ya,,I voted not at all cause I can't remember the last time I had a drink,,and when u go in the hospital 4 admission or tests and they ask the drinking questions like even if i was a full blown alcoholic i'm not gonna proudly raise my hand and say i start drinking as soon as i open my eyes in the morning and pass out the same every evening with a huge beer bong strapped 2 my face with duct tape,,but the very next time I'm asked I'm gonna say exactly that lol there will be a lot of OMG said that day under there breath hell at least it will give them something 2 talk about 4 the rest of the day,,oh they were going 2 talk about u anyway but know they can so much more drama 2 it so by the time the night shift nurses come on god only knows wut will be added 2 your invisible drinking problems give it a try someday,,,I could drink back in the day b4 my disease got this bad I always started with beer than what ever was there I would give it a try but always straight liquor cause pop and juice make me sick and in the end it always tastes like water anyways OMG did she just say that lol...I think trying things in moderation is fine as long as it does not affect your body in any negative way..  ~~CHEERS~~

Post Edited By Moderator (Nanners) : 3/29/2011 7:50:08 AM (GMT-6)

Nope no alcohol for me either, slowed me down as an athlete way too much (I could tell the difference running for three days after one drink), even before crohns. Now with crohn's even a tspn makes my illness worse, and with MTX it is just not smart for me.

This result is interesting.
I would also be interested in "What did you used to drink?". I was a partier when I was younger and I have always kind of wondered if that has anything to do with this DD.

I tell my wife when I look back at my life I have hve had an average amount of booze. The difference with me is I had too much whnen I was young, and virtually none now...

Dave

I haven't had a drink since 1999 (sigh), because I'm extra-careful with both my CD and my liver (since I'm on 6MP and my family has a history of liver cancer). But my doctor recently told me that it wouldn't hurt me to have an occasional drink. I'm still waiting for the right occasion--after 12 years, it had better be something really special!

ha ha ha - am sipping a russian qualood as i write this....

I hardly drink at all but when I do, my drink of choice...is beer.  That is right..a drink made from wheat which is evil to us.  I have to say I have never found that alcohol affects my CD.  The only thing I find is that when I drink too much beer, the next day I am gassy but that is normal for anyone drinking too much beer.  I don't feel that way after liquor or wine. 

I think because it is a liquid it is absorbed differently therfore not playing an impact on the CD.  With food the intestines have to work hard but with liquid, it moves along easily.