Is 3 months out REALLY an okay time to have Carbonation?

Kristi_Teeter
on 11/5/08 4:41 am

I have only found information about not having Carbonated Beverages with RNY and Lap Band people, nothing from DSers. Since it is the only thing off limits, it is the only thing I really want - Coke, Beer, Champagne, anything with bubbles. Any thoughts would be so much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

Kristi
Surgery Date 9/24/08
Lost 36 so far.

levittown_loser
on 11/5/08 4:45 am - Levittown, PA

DS on 07/02/08

I started my first carbonated beverages at a week out with no problems.

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Kristi_Teeter
on 11/5/08 5:55 am

Thanks so much. This is my first question and the responses are awesome. Thanks for helping me and everyone else on our journey.

Redhaired
on 11/5/08 4:45 am - Mouseville, FL

DS on 07/13/06

I drink diet pepsi all of the time. In fact they brought me Sierra Mist (diet) while in the hospital when I had my DS. This is one area where the docs really seem to disagree. Just be sure that it is diet.

Red

I'm a DSer
on 11/5/08 5:05 am, edited 11/5/08 6:26 am

I am 2 yrs post-op. I was unable to drink any type of carbonated drinks for 16 months. Even if I made it flat, added water or added a lot of ice. It was extremely painful to my tummy. The only type of carbonated beverages I am able to drink are the diet orange types and drink these anywhere from 20oz-48oz on a daily basis. The good thing about drinking the diet orange sodas that I have it's sugar free and caffeine free. Caffeine is known to deplete the calcium levels in our body, even for non-ops.

I am now able to drink carbonated soda and enjoy it on a daily basis. I have drank champagne a year out post-op and it didn't give me any negative side effects. To me, it is not the bubbles that affects my tummy, it is the caramel ingredient they put in carbonated drinks that still affects me negatively. Otherwise, not one single issue with the orange beverages.

Everyone is different. Some are able to drink carbonated beverages weeks out of having the DS surgery and some (like me) are able to drink carbonated bverages when they are over a year out or more. Carbonated drinks are not off limits and I do drink it all the time (every day) with my meals.

HW 305/SW 247/CW 130/LW 115/GW 140
BMI = 23.7 3+ yrs post-op
stomach = 3.5 oz, common channel = 125 cm

PekinSal
on 11/5/08 5:47 am - UK

DS on 04/05/08

I started drinking them a month out, very slowly (because of burping!) The only ones that cause me problems are cola-type ones - if I drink them before bedtime they give me acid indigestion later. I don't think we're supposed to drink brown fizzy stuff anyway, something to do with it rotting your bones...

No alcohol before a year out though, so I'm still missing beer...

Sal

DS revision from failed lapband

Tracie Shelton
on 11/5/08 5:55 am - TX

DS on 10/27/08

I am 9 days out and I slowly drank a Mountain Dew yesterday (don't tell anyone...!!). No problems. Just burped alot.

DS Facts
on 11/5/08 5:54 am

DS on 03/05/08

Kristi,

If you are going to try carbonated drinks, try them with lots of ice, to get rid of the bubbles. Stay away from alcohol while you are in rapid weight loss, it is too hard on your liver.

Bev

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LadyDi9080
on 11/5/08 8:36 am - Tallahassee, FL

DS on 03/15/06

I did not have carbonation for 6 months. I found that when I sipped my first diet coke, it did not taste the same and I did not care for it! Now, I drink one a day...which really isn't a good habit since it depletes your calcium levels.

For the bubbly...champagne. Let it go for at LEAST 6 months. This would be very hard on your liver at this time. Just because you CAN drink it, doesn't mean you SHOULD. There will be plenty of time to celebrate after the fast weight loss is over!

Dianne from FL

SW / GW / CW 5'10"
306 / 165 / 140
With the DS: there is no stoma, so no stoma strictures; there are no limitations (other than volume) against drinking before, during or after meals; 80% of ingested fat is malabsorbed; 98.9% of type II diabetics are CURED of this devastating disease, with data showing stable cure over 10 years out; there is the best average weight loss and most durable (average 76% excess weight loss going out 10 years) of all of the bariatric surgeries. That's why I had a DS!

Valerie G.
on 11/5/08 9:26 am - Northwest Mountains, GA

DS on 10/31/05

It took me several months to tolerate it, but the bubbles of diet coke called to me. I enjoy it every day now, but still getting in plenty of uncarbonated beverages as well.

Valerie
DS 2005

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