Alcohol and WLS - Sad News from a friend

So very sorry for your loss. Sending everyone affected tons of hugs.

Thank you for passing this on. I've had friends who had RNY who thought it was okay to drink postop, but honestly, truly didn't understand the power and rapidity of transfer addiction. They go out on the town one night, and the next night they have something to drink to relive the feeling, and next thing you know, overnight, they've become an alcoholic.

I'm lucky, I guess, in that everything I enjoyed about wine is gone (no warm glow, no mellow evening, just instant fallin down drunk)... and every other alcoholic beverage out there makes me dump.

Again, thank you SO much for sharing, this is really such an essential important message.

I am so sorry for his family and your lost. But I want to thank you for posting this, It does need to be know that drinking is very dangerous and we need to stay healthy.

I'm so sorry for you loss.

Hi Deborah,

I wi**** was for happier reasons that I was replying to you (like our last conversation).

WLS and Alcohol are...um...I don't even know what adjective to use.
According to a Harvard Study that I read, alcohol abuse, is the second highest form of "self-harm" behavior that we engage in
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It affects nearly 20% of us at some point or another.

Thank you for posting about this.

Melting Mama (MM?), Ginny F (from Chicago) and myself, have at times brought up some of the apparently "unrelated issues" that just sorta, "show up out of nowhere" post op.

It can not all be explained away by saying that we had a food addiction pre-op, and that it is a "Transfer Addiction" because in some of our cases (like mine), the obesity itself was not linked to life-time habits of over-eating, but rather specific injuries that made movement nearly impossible. Or in other cases endocrinologic (is that a word?) causes.

Its not all Transfer Addictions folks, trust me, wi**** was because there's tons of support for that.

I'm sorry for your loss,

cyber-hugs,

Christian