alexsax

Its very disturbing to me that not one response on here pertains to any information about your liver? Did any of your doctors discuss with you the information about the effects of this surgery and your liver function? Let me let you in on a story. The gastric sleeve is currently a "trend" where I live. Women that are 30lbs overweight are flying to Mexico and getting it done. None of them are abiding by the post op rules. You know what we are seeing, women coming in non responsive because their liquid diet/low calorie diet and alcoholic beverages they are having are killing their liver. We have buried 2, one in her 20's and one in her 30's. When you get any kind of bariatric surgery, your liver is working over time. The largest reason aside of eating up your stomach, to stay away from alcohol, is to keep yourself from going into liver failure. A liver isn't easy to come by, and as soon as they pin point it was "elected" (you chose to drink when you were told not to, generally speaking it is 6 months and no carbonation), you are off the list for a transplant. I think that more physicians need to start showing the horrifying results of bariatric surgeries that aren't taken seriously. I worked in bariatrics, I have seen the positives and negatives. Please, put the fact that you are screwing up your diet second to the fact that you are putting a tremendous amount of stress on your liver that is already working OT. I like my alcohol, don't get me wrong! Just be faithful to your surgery, make it worth it!