alcohol and nerve pain

May 27, 2006

My experience with drinking alcoholic beverages is it causes me to have a major

episode of numbness in my feet.

Over five years ago I could enjoy an occasional glass of wine with dinner. One

day the glass of wine caused my feet to have major numbness for several hours,

later my normal level of sensation returned to my feet within 6 hours or so.

I also tried just a couple of sips of wine on a later date. Again my feet had

additional numbness for a period of a few hours, similar to the feeling of

having novocaine wear off after dental work.

Due to this progression of my CMT, I no longer drink any alcoholic

beverages.

Donna

May 28, 2006

I had nerve pain from CMT that was not addressed by physicians, so when

I found alcohol, well, now THAT helped me 'manage' the pain. And the

rest is history, as you know. Fortunately I did not do major nerve

damage during my 'alcohol years' and a healthy lifestyle physically,

mentally, emotionally and spiritually has been a great benefit to

managing my CMT. Still, for me and alcohol, as with life, everything is

only One Day at a Time.

~ Gretchen

June 3, 2006

That's terrible. I don't like the pain meds my Doctor prescribed so when things

are really bad and Advil doesn't take enough of an edge off the pain so it's

managable, I have a drink or three. It's not very often and the pain has to be

really bad (usually goes along with a horrendous day at work) but I do look

forward to the couple hours of peace and couldn't imagine it having the opposite

effect. That would suck.

Hope

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