4/4 Alcohol Helicopter – At one time, when we interrogate our alcohol relationships, we have collected the testimony of women that have chosen to assume, deceive or raise your leg.
Dams of Heat, Headache, Palpitations, Night Sweats … There Are Many That Will Recognize Themselves in This Typical Profile of Women. Symptoms whose intensity can escalate with different factors, including alcohol consumption, even reasonable amount. This was Elizabeth, 52-year-old Elizabeth, in Lyon. “I stopped alcohol on 50, not out of conviction, but because my body has forced me,” he recalls. I have submitted the first signs of Menopause for several years. Weight increase, mood changes, fatigue …
“After a glass of white wine I remember I feel almost unbearable migraines”
If he acknowledges that his alcohol consumption is still “secular”, during which several champagne cuts on the occasion of a preview, one or two cups of dinner and a little more weekends. “It’s all started when I was in Berlin for the festival. I went out into the intensive stress period, between the preparation of the event and the announcement about his father’s cancer. Return to France, he decided to take a week to leave his sister, preferring to adopt the ostrich strategy than to consult. “During this period, my father accompanied all his attributes at the hospital, and I had horror doctors,” he apologizes. I was thinking about stress, overdue. I was far from imagining that my body said he stopped, and I took some time to make contact with alcohol. “The months following this first” crisis “prefer denial, not stand, taking into account his lifestyle. Especially since refusal to be drinking in my environment is almost considered as an insult. “
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“I flare my legs, I had problems strengthening my eyes”
Therefore, he continues to drink through a social recorder with just as personal habits. “But on slight glass, rebellion. First, the bar and immediate nausea in the forehead, while they had to feel a little heaviness before. No one seems to pay attention to it. But one day, in the middle of the dinner with the director, he has to leave the table after drinking one cup of pathogen.
It will be necessary to wait with his family doctor for the first advice to diagnose. Sudden hypersensitivity to alcohol, probably, have arisen in a hormonal rally associated with menopause. “My metabolism, which before that alcohol managed without difficulty, could not be properly treated.
“I felt I lost myself”
Beyond social discomfort, the impact on his daily life leads to many real proportions. Dinner where I drink, I had to lift a glass of sparkling water under the troubled look of the team. Very fast I felt side by side. Some invitations have spread, as if my abstention has become the sign that “I have had their old age,” he admits his throat. The first months I felt that I was losing myself. Alcohol has always been a common topic of my adult life. Wines, the evenings found during the journey will be discussed around the bottle around improvised rockets. Everything was once deleted, and I took a long time to find new benchmarks. Hotspent
During the months, of course, he is able to find a new balance, and even begins to consider this “curse” to be better managed in Menopause. The woman I have been but I don’t have less or jealousy. Menopause taught me to hear what my body told me. “
Source: Le Figaro
