Mastiff_mama

I was wondering the same thing! Major red flag!! No health care professional has done anything but encourage ne to have it.

They've told me NOTHING goes in the mouth the day of surgery! Arg different docs different rules!

Is your surgery scheduled? It all depends on how you feel. Your age, your bmi, etc...you do what you need to do for you!

All I had was a chest xray and blood work. I had several tests to do during my 6 month diet

I hope I can have that too! I hope you wake tomorrow and feel much better!

Enbrel, humira, remicade, etc. ..

My bestie brought me an arrangement if beautiful raw veggies! I can eat raw veggies all I want to stave off hunger pre-op

My surgeon is letting my use topical NSAIDS. I've got valtaren gel and flector Patches. . They've helped me a lot! I have one on the bottom if my foot now!

Angelamaria...do you take an anti tnf? I've not been told to stop mine. I've stopped the mobic and wont resume for 4 weeks. I have erosive gastritis and I am concerned. I take 2 20 mg prilosec a day. They do the egd the day of surgery....pisses me off there's a chance they will wake me and say it's a no go after a year of this crap! LOL

I can't imagine how you feel or how your depression effects you....I can tell you there are people here who will listen, offer advice and comfort you. May if us have suffered from depression to some degree or another. It's not easy being fat! Some of us are fat for horrific reasons! Probably a lot more than you could imagine! As a high school teacher I'd find myself talking a lot to my chunkier students trying ti get them ti understand why they over eat to avoid a lifetime of being fat. You would be SHOCKED how many confessed abuse and mostly sexual! I wouldn't be surprised if half or more on this forum have experienced this! I was. ..for years! I've been to therapy but never lost my protection! It freaks me out! My abuser is still a big part if my family and has been ever since over 30 years ago! I am only telling this because its a issue with us fatties!

I am day 4 of preop and have a yeast infection! Go Figure! How possibly? I do take prophylactic antibiotics ....but have been eating protein and raw veggies! ! I've lost 10 lbs in 4 days! I have to be doing it OK.....right?

My pcp called my in 3 days of oral! Yippee!

But it felt like it! Lunch today on preop was a huge bowl of ice cream! How? 10 oz of unsweetened almond milk, heaping scoop of ENS-Celebrate chocolate powder (ens has the multivitamin and calcium in it), a small splash of real vanilla, tiny bit of orange zest and 1 teas of Sobee SF chocolate syrup. I put it in my oster counter top ice cream maker! It was sooo good! Remember I am on preop and not post! I assume it would be too cold for postoperative

Had my preop last Friday and surgery Monday! My surgeons do the upper GI just before surgery ....wonder how different that is? Any issues and they abandon surgery! I.e. you've eaten and there's food in there it like me have gastroparisis (sp?) And fear there will be food there!

Yeah....I love the naked protein! Has nearly no flavor at all! I mix it with coffee it herbal teas in the am....can add it to hot coffee no issues! I've heard so you can't add to anything hot. I make tea or coffee (k-cup) and add it right away

This preop diet is brutal! I've been so hungry and cheated yesterday! I feel so bad, but I was starving! Had a small bowl of cereal. I can eat once a day and have all raw veggies I want. How many radishes or romaine lettuce can one eat?

A lot of sitting around waiting if it's like mine!