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Hi, all.  I was wondering if anyone else had issues with getting pouchitis after they drink (even from things like just a couple glasses of wine).  This is the third time that it seems to have happened to me, and I only had two glasses of wine one day and one glass of wine 4 days later.  The pain and increased diarrhea lasts for about a month and then things seem to get back into check.  I can't take cipro (tendinitis) or flagyl (peripheral neuropathy) so I load up on probiotics.  I'm starting to look like a lactobacilli.  Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else had the same problem with alcohol.  I hate the idea of not being able to even have a few drinks with my friends once in a while, but this is hell, and it's so not worth it.  Thanks, Alison

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Wow...thank you, Haidalyn.  I wonder why that is and if it has anything to do with the fact that it sits in the pouch versus making a quick pass through it if we still had our colons.  I just had a class in grad school in which we learned that only 20% of alcohol is absorbed in the stomach, and the other 80% is absorbed in the small intestine, so there's quite a bit available for our poor pouches to be exposed to.  I definitely won't be hitting the alcohol ever again.  This makes me very sad.......

There's unlikely to be much alcohol left by the time it gets to the pouch. It will have been absorbed in the many feet of small intestine before the pouch. OTOH, alcoholic drinks have all kinds of complicated ingredients, which (for some of us) might get to the pouch and trigger a response, or might cause a systemic reaction.

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