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Red Wine

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nervebyte
nervebyte

after a couple of glasses of red wine my pmr worsens. anyone else experiencing this?

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  • iellen32
    iellen32 nervebyte

    Posted

    What do you feel exactly after drinking some wine?

    I ask you because I have GCA and when very now and then I have a glasse of wine I do not feel anything, perhaps because I drink immediately some water!

    Do you feel more pain?

    I am very interested on the subject.

    Cheers!

    • nervebyte
      nervebyte iellen32

      Posted

      I feel some stiffness and more pain after a few glasses of red wine, however we are all built differently so what might affect me may not affect you. My understanding is that if we are on steroids and perhaps on other drug, our livers do not love alcohol.
    • iellen32
      iellen32 nervebyte

      Posted

      You are quite right!!!

      Thanks for the reply I am very interested to know all I can in order to keep s reasonable/ sensible diet.

      I know it is a life long kind of program! So, I want to be orepared!

    • EileenH
      EileenH nervebyte

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      I must say that in the early days of PMR when I wasn't on pred at all the best I felt all day was in the evening after dinner and a glass of wine - almost certainly due to vasodilation of the inflammed blood vessels so there was a better blood supply to the muscles. I did go off heavier red wines though and still avoid them. Our local red wines are very light though, almost rose in some ways!
    • iellen32
      iellen32 EileenH

      Posted

      Yes the rose ones could be a god idea to try .

      Such a long time I don't have a glass of rose wine with a chicken dinner!

      We have wineries here in GA close to the mountains, I will give them a try for sure!

      xxxx

  • iellen32
    iellen32 nervebyte

    Posted

    I don't feel any change on my symptoms, yes we are all built in a different way and I have Temporal Arteritis.

    As I do not like red wine i just drink a glass of a Pinot Grigio now and then to go with a broiled salmon and kale dinner..

    Try a white wine instead and sip water with.

    Cheers! xxxx

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