Alcohol Use Whilst Taking Prednisolone

I'd be perfectly happy without the alcohol component if they could make "alc-free wine" that wasn't nauseatingly sweet. I'd rather drink water or a cup of tea than any wine I don't like the taste of so it can't be the alcohol. 

 PS I've also become conscious of calories so some days its a choice between wine and cake ....

an oversized morsel of home made chocolate mud cake covered with lashings of ganache and accidentally drowned in cream ....... 

Exactly...

 

I agree completely.  Adding alcohol to one's "diet" while on treatment for any disorder has nothing to recommend it.

If anything, any of us are probably suffering in part from the effects of modern dietary over-indulgence, which tends to over-load the liver and G.I. system so which is only further compounded by alcohol.

As well, alcohol further irritates the upper G.I. as well as limiting one's ability to control appetite and to keep track of all that they are eating.

Yes, but........No alcohol, no coffee, no tea, no soft drinks, etc etc!  What CAN we drink? 

I drink alcohol, wine with dinner. I can assure you that it does not limit my ability to control appetite or know what I am eating: 

Breakfast is 3 mugs of tea with milk

Lunch is a large bowl of salad with olive oil and vinegar dressing

Dinner is 4oz meat or fish with a large salad or non-root vegetables

I also eat about a handful of almonds and hazelnuts during the day and 1 or 2 squares of Lindt chocolate

None of us is advocating binge drinking but the odd glass of whatever will hurt noone - unless that person happens to be a recovering alcoholic or have certain medical conditions, but that is a totally different matter.

And no - I am not stopping drinking those mugs of tea. I've given up enough because of PMR.

Constance - H2O - at least we get nice mineral water!

 

Apart from both coffee and alcohol having the potential to place stress on the adrenal glands, they are also both dehydrating, and, as many people complain about hot sweats/flushes whilst suffering with PMR/GCA and on steroids, which is also dehydrating, then in my opinion it makes sense to avoid such irritants to achieve the most comfortable journey possible with these conditions.  If I had the very occasional coffee or drop of wine during my steroid days, it would certainly bring on a hot flush and palpitations.  However, everyone is different and what suits one may not suit another.  I always enjoyed my few cups of tea a day, but always decaffeinated, and most of my diet included lots of known anti-inflammatory foods and excluded those known to be pro-inflammatory.

Water, water everywhere............!

A week tomorrow since my diagnosis + starting on my 15mg. dose of Pred, Among the many questions I put to my GP was one relating to alcohol, his immediate response was use sensibly & in moderation. I don't think that any of us wish to do ourselves any more harm, so self preservation should kick in & keep us on the straight & narrow, it is up to each of us to set our own individual limits. 

I like parts of your diet & have enjoyed all sorts of oily fish for many years, I have it several times a week for lunch. The dark strong chocolate also hits the spot for me. Breakfast as soon as I get up to enable early medication, Pred, other presciption drugs + various suppliments that I have taken for a great number of years. Consists of 3 ginger biscuits & a bannana, two large mugs of Yorkshire tea & then water for most of the day, I miss the mug of strong black coffee around 11-11.30am very much.

We have loads of greens + lots of garlic with our freshly prepared meals.

Maybe a number of adjustments to be made along the way, After all today is only my 7th.day on medication & have to say that the simple every day tasks that were very difficult are day by day becoming easier already. Best foot forward for week 2!!!

On the alcohol front, went to an 80th. birthday party yesterday avoided the fizz but enjoyed a couple of medium glasses of nice Merlot, felt good & even better this morning.

 

Merlot is better than fizz any day in my opinion, although a glass of fizz is not to be sneezed at. Red wine is supposed to be anti inflammatory so that and dark chocolate sounds a good mix to me.

Thats made me feel alot better (crap morning/not in my own body!!). Can't beleive how good I feel this afternoons, so will celebrate with two or three squares of lovely Fathers Day dark choccy with a small glass of Merlot. We need our little treats ( anti inflammatories of course).

Merlot is poison to me - isn't it strange? Our local red wine is very light - but a small glass of prosecco never fails to improve my blood pressure when it goes very low. Cutting one of the BP tablets in half eventually sorted it out (100/60 after climbing the stairs was really a bit on the low side!) but prosecco tastes nicer!

Lunch today was bits of apricot and cherries - followed by a scoop of capuccino icecream. I was devastated - no dark chocolate icecream at the icecream shop - wrong one (there wasn't a queue like at the other one).