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Pia Hinckle's avatar

I did the same thing this year and my husband joined me. Both of us have LOVED our cocktails for decades and I grew up in bars so drinking big cultural issues for me. With menopause I have found drinking just makes me feel so much more inflamed but also didn’t want rules around it. Anyway, short story is that his blood pressure dropped just by stopping drinking for a month and now we enjoy mostly NA beers and cocktails.

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Paula Gregorowicz's avatar

. I am not trying to minimize OR exaggerate what I did. Just examine.

Oh how I love that. It is how I feel too when I write about personal experiences.

I have recently started some tart cherry juice too with sparkling water. Will need to try with tonic or ginger beer too.

I have learned and loved wine and spirits for years so that won’t go away but I feel so much better when it is limited to a chill weekend night or something special. Love beer too but it doesn’t love me much anymore.

The menopause thing has stolen my exercise joy so I am hoping that will change soon and then a better balance will be back!

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