Please post some DOCUMENTED PROOF how carbonation causes slippages. What does your doctor say when you ask, "Why no carbonation?" Does he have documented studies showing carbonation causes damage?

My doc says there's no documented proof that carbonation can cause a slippage, so I asked why it was on my list of things to avoid. Plain and simple, soda is filled with crap. There's nothing in soda that's good for you. Sugar in regular is a killer, and Diet contains poisons. However, he knows I'm having problems keeping away from goodies, so in his own words, "I'd rather see you hooked up to a Diet Pepsi filling station than see you ever eat Ben & Jerry's again."

I asked him what surgeons are basing their "No carbonation" rules on. There's no documented proof that carbonation causes slippage, but doctors think gas might get trapped and try to come back up and slip the band, but he chuckled at the ridiculousness of such a theory. Considering get big burps trapped after every meal, that would mean I face slippage with a band-size portion of lean chicken or smashed taters.

I asked, "What else causes slippage?" Eating too much or too fast causes slippage. Or he supposes a really bad hiccup or just a weird twist/cough/heave might cause slippage, or nothing at all. He said I could slip my band with one single eating episode or I could overeat every single night, then one night it could slip. Or maybe it won't slip. Or maybe it will.

Bubbles cause discomfort to some people, but I love them. And I miss them since I'm several weeks off soda. Phooey.

Disclaimer, This isn't a PRO-CARBONATION thread. I just want some proof. I'm not a sheep, I don't follow well unless I know the rest of the sheep are going somewhere cool.

I was an avid diet soda drinker and always suspected it was giving me some headaches that seemed sent by the devil himself! I gave it up a few weeks ago for the surgery and POOF! the headaches are gone.

Just sharing this in light of the crap that is in diet that folks have mentioned many times in this thread. Who knows. There are a lot of variables here considering how much my eating habits have changed during this time. It could be attributed to a number of things. But I do wonder...

Aspertame and other artificial sweeteners are famous for causing headaches. I'm still off soda, but I'm getting weak!