Statistic Your Surgeon Does Not Give Pre Surgery But Could Save Your Life

Wow, that's quite the story. Thank you for sharing. We have a few people on here who are very open about their struggles with alcohol.

It's definitely an RNY thing, but we see, time and time again, people poo poo'ing advice on alcohol. I hope your story resonates with people who need it to.

Thank you for sharing your story, I'm sorry that you had to learn the hard way. My surgeon's office kind of glossed over alcohol usage post-surgery, but I'd read enough through various forums and articles to know that I won't be drinking. I was never much more than an occasional social drinker so I'm OK with this.

One thing they didn't mention at all, that I saw an article about recently, is how narcotics addiction can also be a problem for the post-WLS crowd. I need to read more about it, but I believe the article I read said it was related to needing to control the aches and pains we develop as we get smaller, and we can no longer rely on NSAIDS.

Thank you so much

Thank you for sharing!

I think it is very possible for someone to transfer an addiction from food to alcohol, especially considering after surgery that liquids go right down and food sometimes get stuck. Many people also report that alcohol affects them faster after surgery, so you get a faster reward and that can exasperate the pace of addiction.

I wonder however, how many are truly honest about having an alcohol addiction before surgery. Most alcoholics hide their addictions, even from medical care providers. Just a curiosity I have, not trying to detract from the message of the story.

Yeah about that. I really thought about that. I drank in high school. And when I drank then I drank a lot. I also drank and drove and wrecked two cars. But, then I said this is dumb trying to fit in so I went to college and dran****asionally, worked. Met my husband. Got a good job in Rado at CBS radio not on air as their Accountant because I didn't know a single jock and had never listened to their station. My future husband was happy ? because he loved their type of music. However, this was a very fun industry to work in at 21. My husband never drank and still does not but loves concerts I could get tickets. I did not go often but sometimes I did and drank. Sometimes I would get drunk sometimes not. Then I did not drink hardly at all when I worked for the government. My career took off and all I ever did was work. No more fun time ever. So I'm ð?¤". All I know is there was a time I felt I could drink safely and now I know I can't. I crossed a line I can't uncross. Oh and the other million dollar question that most are curious about. I did not grow up in a home with alcoholic parents. My mom has never drank and my dad barely drank.

"So the cop asked what drugs were I on. I said drugs, I'm an alcoholic not drug addict. I don't take anything addictive or habit forming."

Alcohol is a drug and it's big time addictive. It just happens to be legal so people don't think of it as a hardcore drug.

The definition of drug:

"A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body."

So if you wanted to pick nits, food counts as a drug as well. But it adds nothing to the issue here, or the point of the discussion.

Thank You.

Yes it is and probably in my books the most dangerous drug. However it is put into its own category and only put into a grouped category by addicts and health care professionals. The lines get blurred because it is segregated all the time. Even when I was arrested the coding was different. I think because for one it is widely considered legal and socially acceptable and for the other not. Even Alcoholics Anonymous addresses the issue in some of there literature about should a drug addict attend AA meetings or not. It's funny because everything else besides alcohol and I do mean everything would go under Narcotics Anonymous. But, alcohol is the only drug that has its own group. Don't get me wrong it is one of the oldest but so is Poppy. But it does not have its own special group and we have a huge national pandemic. There is just something about it because it's legal and I did not want to confuse the average reader.

There's definitely a tragic irony to it all.

Whats really crazy IMO is how physically debilitating alcohol is compared to almost every other illegal drug. Yet drunk people are often seen as "amusing". You see the same person high on drugs and it's shameful.

I've definitely flirted with alcoholism as a younger man and knock on wood, it just never got its hooks in me too deep despite it being something of a family trait.