Does anyone know why we can't have coffee or caffeine?

I was told that coffee has a diuretic and it would assist in you geting dehydrated.

coffee is not going to dehydrate you.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/13/262175623/coffee-myth-busting-cup-of-joe-may-help-hydration-and-memory

http://www.webmd.com/balance/caffeine-myths-and-facts?page=2

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11022872

My dietician wants patients to wait a few months after sleeve surgery as it can be a gastric irritant, particularly to people with an existing history of stomach ulcers.

I heard we can have coffee, but has to be decaf. No thank you....

I have no restrictions on coffee. I drink a lot of it. Helps to curb my appetite.

Follow you sutgeons recommendation, at least for six months , until your tummy jeals.

Funny that the first day I was allowed to drink, the first Breakfast that the hospital offered me was a cup of coffee or tea!

Anyway, I drink my coffee everyday at least 2 cups but only decaf. My surgeon didn't have any restriction for coffee.

Oh, I've been sleeved in France, by the way.

Caffeine leeches the Calcium out of your system. We already have issues absorbing what we need, (hence most of us have been prescribed to take multiple extra supplements). A calcium deficit will catch up with us in broken bones as we age, so go easy on the stuff IF you do it at all! That said, I have a single kcup of regular in the morning. If I want more, it's decalf. It's the only caffeine I get during the day, (won't even touch iced tea unless it's decalf and of course, no soda). Labs have been good so far.

I'm a sleeve patient, so I won't have the kind of malabsorption issues EDIT! gastric bypass patients have (or at least many fewer issues).

My surgeon -- who is otherwise conservative as can be -- told me during my final pre-op consultation that I may continue to drink coffee, during both pre-op and post-op.

It was a very welcome bit of news for me. For the past few months, I'd gotten the coffee down to half a cup. Turns out, that's about all I need / want anymore.

YMMV.

Edited August 7, 201411 yr by VSGAnn2014

I'm a sleeve patient, so I won't have the kind of malabsorption issues gastric sleeve patients have (or at least many fewer issues). YMMV.

What's the difference between sleeve and gastric sleeve?

Edited August 7, 201411 yr by docbree

I think she meant , "gastric bypass" , because there is not a difference between sleeve and gastric sleeve. But the gastric bypass patients do have malabsorption issues

Yup, I meant "gastric bypass" patients have malabsorption issues.

Sorry for the confusion. Fixed it.