I don't know if you want to call me a hypochondriac, but at least I'm logical about it. I usually don't message my provider regarding symptoms I'm having unless I have a logical guess about what is going on. And yes, sudden alcohol intolerance didn't make any sense, but I wasn't sure what else it could be.
Turns out, it could be hypoglycemia. Now, I'm not diabetic, but I was taking Ozempic at the time for weight loss, and I was on 2mg (2ml? I don't know) of it, which is about double what a normal diabetic would take for their disease. During the last year or so, I had slowly been increasing my dose to reduce symptoms like diarrhea or gas or abdominal pain. So, drinking at the beginning, I either had no symptoms or very little (such as what I would dub the "wine headache") and that's when I had stopped drinking for several months because I didn't feel good after drinking while all the while, increasing my Ozempic dose.
So when I finally decided to partake around the holidays, I felt really crappy. I had read that Ozempic and alcohol together might lower my blood sugar, but I wasn't putting two and two together because the last time I'd drank it wasn't nearly this bad. But I was also taking a much lower dose at the time.
Turns out alcohol intolerance and hypoglycemia have a lot of the same symptoms, including shaking, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting.
I'm just angry that had I known it at the time, I could have had a spoonful of sugar and felt better! Ugh!
I had figured this out because shortly after the holidays were over I had stopped taking my Ozempic; mainly because it wasn't doing much for me anymore, which is depressing in and of itself because I didn't think this was something my body could or would "get used to" like all the other medications I had tried.
AND YET - obviously it was doing something because it was causing hypoglycemia when I drank. The F, yo. But I had tested the drinking waters after I'd stopping taking it and guess what - no more symptoms. I was perfectly fine.
My PCP probably hates me. Have you ever heard the idea that doctors make the worst patients? Like, at least doctors went to medical school. I didn't. I just have basic anatomy knowledge (and way too much GYN cancer knowledge), so I'm probably an even worse patient, as this misdiagnosis can attest to.
