IAE insanely affected by small amounts of alcohol and drugs

I’m not trying to be a weirdo. I know you’re not supposed to talk about your substance use, but everything I talk about here is legal where I’m at. I’m still embarrassed.

But I seriously just want to know why I’m like this. Ever since I was 17 and had my first drink, I’ve noticed that my body has an INSANELY intense response to anything and everything that’s a “drug.” I used to be able to get buzzed off a tbsp of vodka. I still get sloppy drunk, unable to walk, off of two drinks. My first time trying weed (legal in my state) was terrible and downright psychedelic, because I took 25 mg…but ever since, I noticed I get pleasant and noticeable effects from SUCKING AND NIBBLING my edibles. Everyone thinks I’m crazy but it’s true. Any more than 5 mg and I am miserable, even 5 is a lot. I’m the same way with prescription meds, I feel the effects times 5. If I eat sugar or drink caffeine, I also feel those effects intensely and even get like little hangovers from bingeing on sugar, like nausea and headaches.

This is on my mind because recently I had a crazy experience with this stuff that was being sold legally in my town called Kratom. I did like a gram of it and had this amazing, heaven-like experience where I didn’t realize my body and brain could even feel that good, and then afterwards I felt the worst I’d ever felt in my life and thought I was dying. And then for a week after that I felt all weird and addicted to it. In desperation I went to an expert. He was like no you shouldn’t have been feeling that good or that bad, or having cravings, or any of that, after 1 g, once, but I believe you. Apparently most people wouldn’t even feel something off a gram-or have the comedown I’d suffered through, without using heavily for months on end. He texted me last night after our consultation and apparently he’s doing a research study on my case cause I’m so weirdly hypersensitive to substances and he’s fascinated.

I never questioned my sensitivity before, but now I’m curious if anyone else is the same way with alcohol and drugs and even sugar, and if so have they figured out why????

Since people seem interested in this, I’ll add some details: I’m 5’4″ and my weight is usually in the 120’s somewhere (lbs). When I was younger, like 11-17, I barely had enough food to sustain myself and was like close to death levels skinny until my senior year of high school, when I got to a healthy weight and was appropriately nourished. That’s when I started noticing the sensitivity to sugar, and soon drugs. Wasn’t sensitive to sugar before the starvation at age 11…drugs I don’t know cause I didn’t do them as a little kid.