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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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 by VSGAnn2014

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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 by docbree

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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

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

Sorry for the confusion. Fixed it.

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