What alcohol can you tolerate best? Wine, cane based spirits or grain based spirits?

[Basilico]

I can only tolerate about 1 serving of wine and cider, even though they are my favorites (more than that and I tend to get a headache). I don't seem to have this problem with beer or spirits. I thought it was sulfites, but even cider without sulfites seems to bother me, not sure what's happening there. Alcohol is generally pretty neutral for me (though I can't tolerate a lot of it so I rarely drink more than 2, though I can handle up to 3 without ending up with a lampshade on the head).

However, I absolutely can not drink at night, or else it severely screws up my sleep cycle. If I have a couple of drinks at night, I am guaranteed to wake up at like 3 or 4am and not fall back asleep and feel wasted and hung over the next day even if I never got drunk. I wonder if anyone else has this issue?

 

[purrsian]

However, I absolutely can not drink at night, or else it severely screws up my sleep cycle. If I have a couple of drinks at night, I am guaranteed to wake up at like 3 or 4am and not fall back asleep and feel wasted and hung over the next day even if I never got drunk. I wonder if anyone else has this issue?

When I could still drink, I very much had this problem. I had to mix my drinks with pepsi max, because normal pepsi was too much (sugar plus caffeine plus alcohol) - I'd be awake and jittery at 3am, heart beating like crazy. Still would happen to an extent without the sugar. I felt the effects of caffeine more than the alcohol and would feel super excitable but not very drunk yet.

In contrast to some of you guys, when I was younger (pre-CFS) I didn't get hangovers at all. It was wonderful. My mum never really did either, so maybe genetics. Got a bit worse after 25 years old, but in the normal way. Then sudden change to horrible hangovers at the slightest bit of alcohol last year.

I do miss having it to perk me up for social events and ease a little social anxiety! So now everyone gets to see being my normal zombie self instead

 

[ArunP]

Hey guys,

I tried some wine a few days back. More like 3/4 of a 750ml bottle.

I felt great. My symptoms were great. I started to gave trouble talking these few months as I got worse, but on the alcohol I was talking like I used to six months back.

So I guess it's just the grain based alcohol that I don't take well.

But I hated the glutamate rush in the morning. Like @Hip pointed out in another post. Had to use clonazepam to balance things. But some experimenting to do for sure. Maybe in small quantities.

Regards,
Arun.