Alcohol makes you sick while on hormone therapy?

I've found that I am now a "one glass of wine" gal. Before hormone therapy(actually before BC), if we opened an especially good bottle of wine with dinner it was not unusual for the two of us to finish the bottle. Now, it's one glass each and recork the bottle for another time.

Edit: Actually it does not make me sick but I get "buzzed" much faster.

My MO told me I am allowed max 1 glass of wine per week and no more since alcohol increases estrogen and the AI is supposed to do the opposite. I guess the good times are over They don't even mention this on the list of side effects of AI!

Before cancer, I used to have a couple of glasses of wine every evening (maybe that's why I got cancer?), but when I started chemo (AC+T), I found that after 2 sips, my head felt like it was going to explode. I didn't feel buzzed or "high" in the least, but my head felt like I'd had a gallon of wine, so I did not drink anything during chemo. After chemo, I would have a glass of wine or a beer when I was out with friends, maybe once a week or so, and I found that I gradually worked up to the whole glass or bottle of beer after a few outings. Initially, I could only drink about half of that, before my head started to ache again. During and after radiation, I continued with the few times a month of a glass of wine or beer with friends. I had two months between radiation and starting letrozole, and ever since I started with the letrozole, I find it difficult to impossible to enjoy even that occasional glass of wine. Beer seems to be a little better, but not much. Because of the virus, I don't meet up with friends these days, but I have been "treating" myself to a glass of wine on Sunday evenings. With the nicer weather I usually really enjoy sitting outside in the evening and enjoying a glass of wine with a piece of chocolate. With the letrozole, though, I am finding it hard to consider it a "treat" at all, and am questioning if I really even want to have just that one occasional glass of wine. It makes my head ache, and I feel just "yuck" after I have had about half a glass, although I finish it. I have found that if I have a lot of water before and after the wine, I don't feel quite so sick from it, but then again, I have to wonder if it is really worth it, if I have to plan ahead and drink all this extra water. It no longer seems like a pleasurable thing, but a sort of forced effort just for the sake of doing it. I would just love to have my old life back (even just the 2 months between radiation and letrozole), so I could just enjoy a pleasant evening with some wine once in awhile - along with many other things that I can't seem to enjoy these days. I doubt that I will ever go back to the couple of glasses every evening.

I've been on Anastrozole for 10mo. and had one beer with supper this past week on vacation. Before bed even, I started feeling like I was hung over: nausea to the point of having to take Phenergan, headache, and upset stomach and just plain feeling yucky for a few days afterwards. I hadn't seen any warnings to this regard but I won't be doing that again! I'm thankful to have found this site. Blessings to all of you going through this too.

My MO never mentioned alcohol. I'm sure I drank a few times while I was on Tamoxifen, and I don't think it had any negative effect on me.

I started Letrozole last month and haven't had any issues with drinking. I am having hot flashes and overall feelings of BLAH!! But it could be the extreme heat here in Cincinnati. I am thankful I don't have the joint pain that some experience. So I do enjoy Vodka drink every now and then without any issues. Hugs to all out there in BC land.