Question:
Can Alcohol Stretch Your Stomach

   — [Anonymous] (posted on October 17, 2005)

October 17, 2005
I am pre-op but this is one question I asked. Drinking alchohol will stretch your pouch in one way- the sugars. So it's best to not drink.
   — [Anonymous]

October 17, 2005
If you drink (alcohol or anything else) while eating (or too soon after eating) you can stretch your pouch. Eating sugary drinks will make you dump, but will not necessarily stretch your pouch the way overfilling it with food would (or the way that eating and drinking simultaneously would). Many doctors will advise against drinking alcohol early on for a number of reasons. First, for some, alcohol becomes an easy substitute for food (especially for those who can justify their drinking low- or no-carb- alcoholic beverages). Secondly, many mixers are loaded with sugars that can cause dumping and that, even if they don't make you dump, will still fill you with useless carbs and calories. Third, many of us become relatively cheap drunks and have a reduced capacity for liquor leading to much faster intoxication. That being said, I enjoy a Gin and Diet Coke (with a twist of lime) when I decide to have a drink-- it's basically carb-free and it is surprising crisp and refreshing. Of course, I have to endure the stares of bartenders who always tell me that no one has ever ordered that drink before.
   — SteveColarossi

October 19, 2005
No, alcohol cannot stretch your pouch and NEITHER does sodas. Reason being, and just think about it, there is an inlet and an outlet You burp first! Hope this helps!
   — Egyptianeyesdiva

October 19, 2005
Alcohol can't stretch the pouch but it is wasted calories which can make you gain weight. The soda can stretch it. The carbonation stretches it. Also the alochol supposedly goes to your liver faster because no filtering in the stomach first.
   — hessie28

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