My question is a lot of you might be wondering about the title of this thread. All I am wanting to know is if you follow the hard and fast rule of not drinking anything 30 min prior to meal times and also not drinking 30min after meals?

Are most surgeons under this general rule??

Does your surgeon allow you to drink?

Let me know your thoughts

Once we get to soft foods stage (and beyond) my surgeon allows us to drink up to the meal, but not during it and not for 30 minutes after. He doesn't allow us to eat cereal or soup (the kind with chunks, cream style is ok) because it is the same as drinking with your meal, so he is pretty strict. Yes, I follow this rule.

I don't really have any particular thoughts about it except that he and his team are the experts, not me, so I follow their rules and not the rules I wish existed.

I follow pretty closely to it. My understanding is that if we drink right before we eat, we'll have less room for the food we need. If we drink right after or during, we can speed up emptying our stomachs and may get hungry faster. Someone made a you tube video essentially showing the effects of drinking while we eat, and it made sense to me.

I am following this rule to the letter...with the exception of Water....if I am drinking straight water, with nothing in it....I can transition to food with no problems...that is when "Felipe" is completely empty...I can actually feel when there is food still in my sleeve or when the water is running straight through...when the water I am drinking is running straight through like a funnel, then I will eat...other wise, under any other conditions, I wait at least 30 minutes before eating...I ALWAYS wait to eat or drink after I eat..ALWAYS...

Hope this helps...

Shel