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Alcohol suppresses your immune system, and the effects continue for some days after you stop drinking. Since there is always a danger of infection (staph, pneumonia, etc.) both during and after surgery, you need your immune system functioning at the top of its game. You are taking a major chance with your health or life by not following your doctor's recommendation in this regard.

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First of all I am not a doctor. I hope cutting out the alcohol a week before surgery and using potassium replacement therapy, ie Mate' and bananas, to clean my liver and replace clotting agent will be sufficient. I don't really have a choice. Fortunately its just hernia surgery.

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Three years later I have healed very nice with no issues during or after the process; maybe it worked.

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7 days on average, double check with your surgeon.

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12 hours, but ideally 24+.

Alcohol thins blood, and therefore there would be a higher bleeding risk.

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