Little tipple.

[Dottilind]

Hi everyone, happy Xmas and a great New Year to you all. I was wondering if I had glass of wine and soda for lunch and ate loads of greens would one counteract the other. As been on warfarin since Feb this year have not touched a spot of drink, so wondering if it will affect the warfarin or not. Thanks to you all.

[Rellim296]

Yes, it will affect the warfarin. Yes the greens will counteract. It's Christmas and all things work at half rate for the day! Have a great time.

[Dottilind in reply to Rellim296]

Relim 296 that made me laugh thanks for that. Hope you have a good one too. Happy New Year.

[BobD Volunteer]

For goodness sake it's Christmas. I will be having wine, spouts AND cranberry jelly. and the devil take the hindemost. We cam sort it all out next year.

Bob

[Dottilind in reply to BobD]

If you survive. Merry Xmas.

[fallingtopieces]

I have discovered I can drink 2 big glasses of Prosecco without experiencing increased extra beats as I do with more than one decent glass of any other wine. Not sure why that is but it's most welcome : ))

Merry Chrishmassss!

Pat.

[Spiritji in reply to fallingtopieces]

That is good to know....I will test it out

[christine147]

I just don't partake but I know many who do and I have no idea but my cardiologist did not rule out a glass of wine and so I feel perhaps I have been over cautious. However since being on new meds I don't have a flutter and three admissions to a and e two in three weeks this year and stable inr I just decided that I wouldnt drink at all its ok and in a way I just feel safer not too. Looking forward to a healthy 2015.

[rjr681]

Hope you all had a merry Christmas. Wish I hadn't read this as I never knew about any restrictions on drinking. Always thought you should have lots and lots of fluids. Think I'll stay with the keep hydrated theory and put a little more water with the Scottish tea

[bc109]

Hi Dottilind.

I drink loads and it's never affected my INR (to any great extent).

Of course I'm not suggesting you do the same...

Mike.

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Hi Dottilind,

Hoping you had a great Christmas. With warfarin it's all about keeping things more or less the same, so if you always have a glass or two of wine every evening that's okay whereas a couple of bottles once every month probably isn't so good. However as people have said, there is a secret Christmas field that allows us to eat, drink and be merry and worry about it all later

Me, I had a bucketload of sprouts, a couple of glasses of champagne, Buck's Fizz (purely for the vitamin C of course), and I even coloured the bottom of a glass with some sherry (huge gasp!). I hope everyone had a great day

Lis

[BobD Volunteer]

Large glass of Merlot on the terrace well wrapped up in the winter sun yesterday before a late dinner and another glass. After that too darned full for anything and even missed my Talisker in the evening. It is all about balance really not being extreme in either direction but each to their own as they say. If you feel that you need to abstain then there will be more for those of us who don't LOL ( I spent ten years not being able to drink so do understand.)

Bob

[souljacs4 in reply to BobD]

Bob when you say that you were not able to drink for ten years, would that have been when you had AF and before your ablation. if so does that mean that after ablation you go back to normal and can drink like other people?

[BobD Volunteer]

No actually this was long before I was diagnosed with AF although it may perhaps have been allied. It was also strange in that I couldn't drink alcochol free wine or beer either. I reasoned that there was some enzym produced in making the wine which upset me rather than the alcohol. In the end I found that by small steps I was able to go back to drinking wine and occasional single malt. I still very occasionally feel that it may return so always take one sip first and wait a short while to see if there is a reaction. The reaction I used to get was rather like shock in that BP would go wild up and down and I would go red in the face and feel faint. It happened once after some proffiter rolls which had brandy in the chocolate sauce.

Long time ago but still scary.

Bob

[souljacs4]

That sounds quite frightening and as you have said it could have been an enzym and by adding it back bit by bit your body was able to tolerate it again good to hear you can now enjoy a nice glass of red.