Alcohol and 2 weeks post op!

[arthritis_me 12]

Well, I asked the hubbie what he thought and he just said (he's a phd chemist) that alcohol is a pretty strong acid and will hinder the healing of the cut down your stomach. We both think you'll be fine though. So if alcohol is an acid, so is coffee which I was going to have one tomorrow. Now I'm kind of thinking I should just wait a little.

Everyone keeps mentioning liver but it's the gallbladder that we lose from losing too much weight too fast, it can't cope with all of the fats (or something-I don't know the processes involved). Since alcohol is fat soluable, I'd think that it will also be hard on our gall bladders while we loose weight. I know I'll have something every now and then during this process but I don't want to loose my gallbladder. That makes for a permanent careful diet from what my buddie at work told me, he can't have coffee etc and not supposed to drink (poopy!)

BTW, to whomever said alcohol is a stimulant, it's a depressant (and not good to have if you're already clinically depressed) but you're right, it interacts with lots of meds.I hope people just get information from this discussion, it's too bad so many are so heated up.

[KaseyLynn7 35]

mkardh is right. Not only does it thin your blood but alcohol is a irritant. Your stomach still has a fresh suture line and drinking alcoholl can cause impaired healing and irritation. Imagine if you will, pouring alcohol on a open wound. YOUCH!

[KaseyLynn7 35]

*Staple line...sorry