Sudden intolerance

Hi all,

Is it possible to just all of a sudden develop a strong intolerance to alcohol, having been fine with it for years previously?

Not a particularly heavy drinker, once or twice a week socially. Never had any problems with it , then BAM, one day it just decided to start causing all kinds of issues never experienced before. These issues have never subsided again since.

If I drink ANY alcohol now, my face flushes up red and sweaty. My tolerance has massively reduced to the point where I’ll be black out drunk and unable to remember anything the next day after only like 5 beers. Any more than 3 drinks and I will be absolutely destroyed for about 3 days. My face will stay beet red for about 48hours, my heart will be racing, short of breath, glazed watery eyes, diarrhoea, dry mouth…. But most odd is the fact that I will be completely drunk for the whole of the next day. Like I go to bed after drinking and wake up after a full nights sleep feeling drunker than when I went to bed. I bought a breathalyzer to check this as thought it can’t be real but yep. I’ll go to bed and the next morning will blow a higher reading than when I had been actively drinking the night before. I will remain drunk for the whole next day and even the morning after that (36 hours after drinking) I will still blow a positive reading which won’t return to 0.0 until around 48 hours after drinking… Supposedly it should take the body 2 hours to clear out each until of alcohol. The maximum I have is about 10 units so should take maximum 20 hours to be completely clear… so why the heck is mine taking more than double that??

It’s crazy because it just came out of nowhere. No symptoms at all until about 25 and then they hit like a tonne of bricks. I had liver function blood tests to check this but all the levels were fine.

Just wondering if anyone else has ever experienced or come across this?

Any help or advice appreciated. Obviously ‘Just stop drinking’ is the answer, I’m just more curious as to any reason why or if there’s anything more sinister going on that I should be aware of.

Thanks,

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