One week without Alcohol
Hello Guys,
As you may remember I was approaching one bottle of red a night (for five years straight) and got my liver checked and all, and had no damage. Nonetheless, I decided to quit. It's been a week with no side effects. Guess I'll go a year. I think I have more energy. I don't know.
Best Wishes,
Dave
Dave if I recall, you said the wine would help put you to sleep. How is it without the wine?? Also, again just thinking of the hot yoga...Would you rehydrate with the wine or was it a combination of water/juice/wine...? One last one (you can't answer) but I would love to ask this question to a bariatric surgeon...During autopsies of RNY patients...What are they seeing in the old (remnant) stomach?? Later, Brian
Brian, I think it depends on the person's state of mind, what else is going on, etc in a person's life at the time. I tried before and had trouble sleeping, but that hasn't been the case this time, most nights. The wine wasn't for rehydrating after yoga. I drank a lot of water to do that, but still hot and thirsty. I think the main attraction was the quickness and ease with which it made me fall asleep.
The remant stomach one would be interesting. I think if they try hard enough, that there is a way to scope it. Wish they would go the extra mile and do that with about 40-50 random people. I guess they would need to have both people with histories of GERD and other digestive disorders and those who don't to make it a good study.
Thanks,
Dave
Another thing about the wine. Most people seem to associate drinking wine with headaches and hangovers, but the RNY seems to have caused that to go away and now it's been that gives me a headache. Not sure what it is, the composition of beer or the concentration of wine. Maybe the liquid volume of beer vs. wine? No idea. Anyway, still not drinking, so looks like I'm at least out of the clear for severe side effects. Dave
