“Don’t you drink alcohol?” – I get frequently asked this by people that have just met me in a social context where there’s alcohol involved. Sometimes it’s just “not now; ok”, but some other times people get intrigued by this choice and want to know more about it.<\/p>\n
“Why aren’t you drinking? No wine? No beer? Did you ever drink? Is it a health issue? Is it a life choice? Is it because you don’t like the taste?”\u00a0and it goes on and on.<\/p>\n
The thing is that I love beer. Not ‘get-drunk-cheap’ beer, but good tasting beers, specially ales. I also like some wine, but I can only tell between ‘horrible wine’ and ‘not horrible wine’.<\/p>\n
However, I have drunk next to no alcohol for the past year or so. I gradually started drinking less down to the point where I wasn’t drinking any. And from that point it was just on rare occasions.<\/p>\n
The main reason was because of a series of lifestyle changes I had in the past couple of years to cut down on acid reflux<\/a> symptoms. The lifestyle changes include:<\/p>\n Today during dinner I met a medical doctor that wanted to know why I wasn’t drinking. When I mentioned the acid reflux, he gave me a good overview of when and why it happens. I won’t try to explain what he told me, because I am not a medical doctor myself and I don’t want to put more incorrect medical information on the Internet than there already is =).<\/p>\n There is also the fact that after my nervous breakdown<\/a> I had to take some medications that don’t mix well at all with alcohol, but these should be temporary. Being nervous also causes acid reflux symptoms. I was told the \u00a0medications that could help me relieve those symptoms are\u00a0ranitidine and omeprazole.<\/span><\/p>\n So for the moment I am not drinking. This should change soon though. I have lots of good French wine and Belgian beer to taste on my way =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Don’t you drink alcohol?” – I get frequently asked this by people that have just met me in a social context where there’s alcohol involved. Sometimes it’s just “not now; ok”, but some other times people get intrigued by this choice and want to know more about it. “Why aren’t you drinking? No wine? No … Continue reading Acid Reflux<\/span> \n