I have not been banded yet, but I was wondering can you still drink alcohol occasionally? Or is that not really allowed, I'm not saying like all the time, but at a party is it ok to have one drink?

I was thinking waaaay after surgery like months, but I was thinking beer more like wine.. maybe thats a question for my doctor.

Alcohol is ok in moderation after you are fully healed - you just can't do any carbonated drinks.

Cheers!

I have heard that you can drink but you get drunker faster. That has to be a myth because your liver controls your ability or inability to soberness.

I heard from my friend that was banded that you do get drunker faster but you don't stay drunk like before banded. That sounded funny to me when she told me that wouldn't it be in your blood liver etc, maybe because you can't hold that much?????????

Julie

I don't beleive this to be true, but check it out with your Docs. I would be true if you had tha gastric by-pass surgery where they by pass the large intestine, so the alcohol is absorbed very quickly but is then does not last long.

I don't beleive this to be true, but check it out with your Docs. I would be true if you had tha gastric by-pass surgery where they by pass the large intestine, so the alcohol is absorbed very quickly but is then does not last long.

Wheezy is correct. RNY surgery is restrictive and malabsorptive whereas the band is only restrictive. So alcohol does not have an effect with metabolism.

Although... you're also right where if you do eat less, it tends to absorb quicker in your system... but its nothing different than what you did before the surgery with an empty stomach.

-Jason

okay, here's the gross thing. If you happen to pb after drinking, its like the alcohol hits your system twice. Even a little makes you totally drunk.

The original issue was not if someone gets more drunk with alcohol, the question was the rate someone becomes intoxicated. Thus, Dr. Ortiz original claim is most correct.

Both statements were correct and answered whatever confusion was happening

-Jason

I have drinks with my friends a couple times a month.

It has not hurt a thing.

I just dont drink any carbonation, and I dont drink alcohol with carbs or mix it with anything sugary.

Higher proof, hard alcohol is "carb free"... still affects the blood sugar, but looks good on a nutrition label.

I am a Baccardi on the rocks girl, and it hasnt slowed me down yet.

well,

I was thinner for like a min. once when I was depressed. went from 170-113lbs in like three months. I did get drunk much fast. Drunk after one drink. (hence the term "light weight") But you are drunk for a shorter amount of time since you took in less to begin with. I find it that way for me now before sugery since I am on Lexapro.