Pre Op Diet and Fatty Liver

[Liliana Arleen 173]

I have fatty liver so my question is,does this liquid diet will help to shrink my liver anyway,having fatty liver??? I would love to know to those who had surgery and fatty liver. What a happens if I follow the strict diet like I am doing it but my surgeon still see fat around my liver? How does he know I never cheat on my diet? Thanks!!!

[shellbelle 4]

That's a good question and I am also curious about it as well. I don't have a fatty liver (that I know of, but who knows? Everything else about me is "fatty" lol), but I AM a notorious cheater and even though it is only 2 weeks long I still don't know if I can do it and not cheat just a little - ESPECIALLY at Thanksgiving! Who can eat turkey without mashed potatoes and gravy????

Will they cancel surgery if your liver hasn't shrunk the way they want it to? How will they even know?

[babigrl111 38]

As far as i know they have to go around the liver to do the surgery, and if its too big it gets in the way. The liquid pre-op diet is supposed to help shrink the liver so they can work around it. Some surgeons dont even require their patients do the pre-op diet, so i dont know how big of a deal it is if your liver is still larger during surgery. You should probably ask your surgeon's office to make sure it wont affect your surgery.

[LVikingFan 14]

My doctor told me that the actual instruments that they use in the surgery are not able to effectively hold the liver out of the way during the procedure if the liver is too heavy. If they can't hold it up and out of the way they need to open you up and do an open procedure with a big nasty scar and a much longer healing time. I went to him 12 days before my surgery and he started me on the liquid diet that day. (I never had a chance for my "last" meal....something that you aren't supposed to do anyway) He had me come back the day before the surgery to weigh in, if I hadn't lost 10 pounds he would cancel my surgery. Imagine my surprise when I weighed in and found I had lost 23 pounds!

[sweety93 18]

Thank you very much Lvikiningfan I was feeling like giving up on my liquid diet and its not worth being able to have the procedure or being cut open.....

[Sushe 1]

As a bariatric operating room nurse yes, they can tell if u followed your diet. The liver is in the way of the stomach so we have to hold it up with an instrument to work. If the liver is fatty it tears an bruises/ bleeds an the surgeon cant c. Peeps that r fat usually have a fat liver. I did the low carb high protien diet for two weeks and since I worked w these people I didn't cheat hardly at all. They told me my liver looked great. I just had the surgery 5 days ago. I hope u still read this

[sweety93 18]

Oh how I wished my doctor would have chose low carb over this liquid diet.....I will make the best of it.