Only a 3 day liquid pre op diet?

[longhorn 11]

I've read so much from everyone about being required by their surgeons to do a 2 week liquid pre-op diet. My surgeon is only requiring a 3 day diet. Now on the one hand that sounds great to me :wink0: But on the other hand it worries me a bit. :crying: I know the purpose is to shrink the liver to improve the ease of surgery.

Does anyone know if 3 days is enough to accomplish this? Did anyone else have such a shortened requirement for pre-op diet?

Appreciate any reassurance on this. Thanks.

[thinoneday 445]

I've read so much from everyone about being required by their surgeons to do a 2 week liquid pre-op diet. My surgeon is only requiring a 3 day diet. Now on the one hand that sounds great to me :wink0: But on the other hand it worries me a bit. :crying: I know the purpose is to shrink the liver to improve the ease of surgery.

Does anyone know if 3 days is enough to accomplish this? Did anyone else have such a shortened requirement for pre-op diet?

Appreciate any reassurance on this. Thanks.

I just have to diet the day before the surgery, on that day I do the following, eat a light fatfree Breakfast, then drink only Clear liquids for the rest of the day, at 2pm do a bowel prep with mag citrate (a real poopy situation here) and continue with Clear Liquids until midnight, then nothing until after the surgery. . .

[Tiffykins 673]

I never had to do a liquid pre-op diet. All I had to do was a week of high protein/low carb (less than 30grams per day) .

There's some controversial information out there posted that even 2 weeks isn't long enough to truly shrink the liver. I often believe surgeons do the liquid pre-op diet to prepare the patient for the post op diet, and clean out the bowels.

[Lee 19]

My program is a 1200 calorie (lowered carbs) diet for the months it takes to get from orientation until surgery day. My surgeon saw my liver on a CT scan done last week and told me everything looks great. He wants me to lose 10 pounds and get all of my appointments done. He only has a couple of days of clear liquids after the surgery. Kaiser Richmond uses the same diet for all three surgery types.

It seems like every doctor has different requirements.

[longhorn 11]

Thanks ya'll. Good to know I'm not the only one. Kind of nice to be able to eat up until 3 days of surgery.

[deedee 5]

I did a modified Atkins diet the month prior to surgery (from my nutrition class until surgery date) and then he had me do 2 days of clear liquids prior to surgery.

[stoongal 10]

I've read so much from everyone about being required by their surgeons to do a 2 week liquid pre-op diet. My surgeon is only requiring a 3 day diet. Now on the one hand that sounds great to me :wink0: But on the other hand it worries me a bit. :thumbup1: I know the purpose is to shrink the liver to improve the ease of surgery.

Does anyone know if 3 days is enough to accomplish this? Did anyone else have such a shortened requirement for pre-op diet?

Appreciate any reassurance on this. Thanks.

Actually, I understand that it would take at least 6 months of low fat dieting to shrink the liver, perhaps the surgeons want their patients to be serious about weight loss and to get a head start on it. Basically the three day liquids ahead of operation day is to clean out the intestines, also the laxative helps with that job as well.

I had the three day liquid diet and sailed through everything!

good luck with your procedure!

[TexasBlueTornado 0]

Because my surgery was so last minute and I only had two days to prepare, I wasn't required to do anything more than refrain from eating or drinking after midnight the night before the surgery. (as with any surgery). In fact, it was suggested that I have a "great last supper" the night before - - - - but with no pre-op diet or restrictions at all, I seemed to do just fine...

[Chancie 65]

Same thing for me longhorn-

Just had 3 days of liquid diet. It is funny how the doctors differ on alot of this.......

You'll be just fine!!

[DownInSocal 12]

I only had to do 3 days liquid, or maybe it was 2. I can't remember. I didn't have to do the two week thing though. I know that for sure.

[johan22 0]

my doctor called me 2 weeks ago and asked me if i want to do the surgery the next day,cause someone canceled and he could do me instead. (no diet then)

i couldn't cause of my work,so i passed.

we meet a few days ago,scheduled finally for mid-end January,and he gave me a 1500 calorie diet till surgery.......

someone else i know did sleeve surgery without a pre-op diet.

....go figure.... it seems everything is possible...??

[ana 1]

hi, my name is ana and i'm going for my surgery in Romania, my doctor wants only a one day pre-op liquid diet.

I've read so much from everyone about being required by their surgeons to do a 2 week liquid pre-op diet. My surgeon is only requiring a 3 day diet. Now on the one hand that sounds great to me :wink0: But on the other hand it worries me a bit. I know the purpose is to shrink the liver to improve the ease of surgery.

Does anyone know if 3 days is enough to accomplish this? Did anyone else have such a shortened requirement for pre-op diet?

Appreciate any reassurance on this. Thanks.

[TexasT 99]

My doc's standard is a one-week liquid diet pre-op, but since I've already lost a lot of weight from having a lap-band he said I only need to do 3 days before my revision to sleeve.

He took my fill out of the band a couple of days ago, so I have 6 days to eat what I want. My 25th wedding anniversary dinner was last night and it felt so good to eat and not have that awful band feeling of food getting stuck. I was surprised that I didn't "pig out" - I still got full fairly quickly. Guess my stomach has just naturally shrunk over the last few years of eating very little.