Do you ever drink with meals?

The only time I will take a sip of something with a meal, is if I ate too fast and didn't chew well and feel like something is not wanting to go down.  However, the last time that happened, the sip that was supposed to make the food go down actually was the blow that sent it all up!

So I really try to stay away from this.  We eat out a lot with our jobs, and i will usually order my drink and sip it while everyone else is having their appetizer.  Then by the time my meal comes, I have a full glass of liquids in me and am ready to eat.

I personally couldn't get food AND liquids in at the same time.  My pouch is EXTREMELY small and it would make me sick for sure.

This is probably the one thing that I must fess up on.  I do drink with my meals.  I have always.  I probably don't drink a lot but a few sips here and there.  I commend all that don't and would prefer not to as the logic makes more sense not to.

I never drink with my meals...ever. This is one rule I won't break.
Good luck with your decision. It's your choice.

My suggestion to you is if your thristy with meals, eat a small bite of some type of juicy fruit instead. If your going nuts not being able to drink, suck on a very tiny small ice cube.

It does matter if you drink with your meals.
Now if your underweight like Dawn, then yes she can drink with her meals.

I'm not underweight by any means. Size 6/8 and happy with that size.

If you drink with meals you run the risk of opening up your stoma too much. The stoma does not re tighten and if it gets opened up, food will run through and you'll gain weight back just because you feel hungry all the time.

Especially dense protein. Do not drink after you've eaten dense protein. It's designed to stay in the pouch a long time so you can get the full benefit of the protein and the full feeling..

I do not drink with meals and never will again. Being someone who drank probably close to a minimum of 32 oz of diet pop with her meals pre-op I'm pretty convinced it help me get to over 400 pounds so I won't ever go that route again. It was hard in the beginning but I don't even think about it anymore.

As to drinking with your meals you have to not only worrying about being hungrier sooner but also stretching your stoma from pushing food too large through it. Lets say you chew your cheeseburger up and it's sitting in your pouch, waiting to be digested. You drink something with it, forcing it's way through the stoma the size of a dime. Repeatedly doing this could cause the stoma to relax to lets say the size of a quarter. The larger the stoma, the quicker the food goes through, also making more room for more food (or possibly never offering restriction/fullness because it goes straight from pouch to intestine because it's so relaxed). So you just really want to consider that too as time goes by. Long term - your stoma is what you need to worry about.

sometimes I have to have a sip or two of something.  Drinking fluids can also cause nausea and vomiting,

Nope. Never. Before surgery I had a talk with my surgeon's np. She told us that the few patients they have had that were gaining back their weight were either drinking diet sodas or were drinking with meals. Definitely don't want to go down that road.
Karen

I don't drink with my meals, ocassionally I'll take a sip if I'm super parched but othewise no.

Well, sort of. 

Usually with lunch I take my actigall, which I have to take with food or it makes me sick...so it usually takes me 1-2 sips of something to swallow that.

Other than that, no.

I wait an hour after eating to drink.

ETA:  A few times I have waited less than an hour after eating my sf pudding...not really sure if this is a no-no or not.  Maybe someone else can chime in on it.

No, I don't drink with meals. Immediately before? Yes. Afterward I use a pallet cleanser (a strawberry, a grape) or a stick of gum to wash food taste out of my mouth.