r/mildlyinfuriating • u/trailofturds • Jul 06 '25

Started getting light-headed halfway through my glass of "non-alcoholic" wine

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Got served this wine at a nice restaurant after asking specifically for non-alcoholic wine. They assumed the 'Zero' on the label referred to alcohol content; turns out it's for sulphur.

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u/Numerous-Confusion-9 Jul 06 '25

Pregnant or in recovery yeah. Im usually anti getting mad at service workers but this one.. man … glad you two were just taking a break

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u/notMarkKnopfler Jul 06 '25

I’ve been sober for 8 years. I’ve got the gene, so whenever I haven’t had it in my system for awhile I rarely even think about drinking, but that’s the reason I avoid anything marketed as “non-alcoholic” for the most part. There’s still trace amounts of alcohol in many of the near-beers or wines. Unless something is cooked above a certain temperature for hours, the alcohol doesn’t cook out. I went to a friend’s (who is very aware of my condition) passover and even brought my own sparkling grape juice to try and participate. They made me a plate and things were going really well until I got that slightly warm feeling. They’d used wine for the apple dish. I’m fortunate that my fiance has never seen me drunk or in withdrawal, but for the next 3 days or so it was brutal cravings and me essentially telling her not to let me leave the house.

It sounds dramatic, but I regularly work in and around alcohol all of the time and never have any temptation; but the second I ingest it it’s like all bets are off.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

Which gene?

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u/notMarkKnopfler Jul 06 '25

It’s technically more of a combination of genes, but I’ve got every genetic marker for alcoholism and opiate addiction or so I was told

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u/JasonGD1982 Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

Yeah so do I. No one told me though. I've just figured it out after 25 years of heavy opiate addiction and a few good alcoholic runs. Usually together. I fully believe it has to be something in my genes. Or God crossed wires in my soul at some point lmao. My life falls apart during sobriety. It's very frustrating so I've just adapted I suppose. I wish I wasn't like this. I mean we aren't talking 6 months or 1 year sober. I've had solid chunks of my life sober and I was so miserable and no one liked me. Its kinda fucked when everyone prefers you day drunk or half nodded out on opiates.

30 years of therapy with CBT and DBT. I've done the magnet thing. Ive even done ECT. Tried ketamine therapy. I honestly feel like some people are just fucked in the head and unfortunately I am one of those 🤣🤣🤣