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OK m1aman,

This is how I understand it from my surgeon. ( May be Wrong May be Right)

The band is sitting on your stomach like a rubber band around your finger. If you tighten the rubber band, the blood is restricted. So with the lap band, the band is tightened around your stomach to reduce food and drink flow into your stomach, the coke (coke is very acidic) would sit above the band waiting to go through. While it is sitting there it can eat at the stomach wall from the inside out thus causing erosion. Also, the skin under the band can die because it is no longer recieving a blood supply which causes erosion period.

I hope that makes sense.

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i'm almost 4 years out and i have a can of dr pepper every morning. they don't want you drinking the pop because it is empty calories.

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OK m1aman,

This is how I understand it from my surgeon. ( May be Wrong May be Right)

The band is sitting on your stomach like a rubber band around your finger. If you tighten the rubber band, the blood is restricted. So with the lap band, the band is tightened around your stomach to reduce food and drink flow into your stomach, the coke (coke is very acidic) would sit above the band waiting to go through. While it is sitting there it can eat at the stomach wall from the inside out thus causing erosion. Also, the skin under the band can die because it is no longer recieving a blood supply which causes erosion period.

I hope that makes sense.

Then why doesn't the coke eat through the wall of the rest of your stomach? (Maybe it does, I don't know) The coke would be sitting in the main chamber much longer than the moment or two it is above the band.

As far as the stomach dieing under the band..... I don't know if it is true or not but I will take your word for it. It seems to me that doctors shouldn't be doing the surgery though if they know this is going to happen. Anyway that is a separate issue than the coke causing erosion.

Regardless, you are talking about stomach erosion and the previous post stated something to effect that coke would erode the band. My point I made is that the band does not erode. It is the stomach wall that erodes. Not the band.

Anyway I will ask my doc tomorrow, if I don't forget, about the "skin" dieing under the band. That is some scary stuff to think about.

Thanks for responding. :)

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I can't drink any carbonated beverages it almost makes me feel something is stuck and very burpy. I drank a little after surgery here and there but as my band had more and more fills I couldn't tolerate the bubbly stuff. Also I can't drink beer anymore for the same reason, I do miss a nice craft ale.

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I was also addicted to soda, but I left it cold turkey! Now I save$$$$ since I would waist at least $4-5 a day. Maybe $100 a month.. Crazy. Now im saving to buy clothes when I drop lbs!

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I was also addicted to soda' date=' but I left it cold turkey! Now I save since I would waist at least 4-5 a day. Maybe 100 a month.. Crazy. Now im saving to buy clothes when I drop lbs!

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Ps. I would buy 20 Oz at gas station

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You make some very good points m1aman. I guess I did make the statement wrong, Sorry about that.

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Ok, do the balloon trick. Take a deflated balloon. Put it over the top of a full soda bottle. Wait a little bit...see what happens. This could happen to your "pouch". It is not just empty calories. Oh, and it corrosive also. You can use it to clean the battery acid off of your car battery. Drink Water.< /p>

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I gave up soda easily after being banded and switched to propel, gatorade, etc. Now I buy diet root beer and add fat free half and half to make it creamy. It is like a cheater root beer float. However it has Huge sodium content, so I don't drink it very often.

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