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I was not put on a pre op diet and I am reading some of these posts on here saying their surgeon didn't do surgery because of liver size. I am scared now. I am hoping I don't have that problem!!! Yikes

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I was not on a preop diet either. I didn't have any problems. There are a number of us on here whose doctors didn't require them too. Good luck.

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nope, no preop diet for me either.

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I did not have a pre-op diet as my bmi was under 40. I did use the week before to detox off sugar and carbs and drink alot more Water.< /p>

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I did not have a pre-op diet as my bmi was under 40. I did use the week before to detox off sugar and carbs and drink alot more Water.

I don't have do do a pre-op diet either. BMI 34 I think. He said my BMI was not high enough to need to do pre-op.

But I'm going to do the same - try to kick sugar and carbs, get the worst over.

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I don't have to do a pre-op diet and i think my BMI is around 41. My surgeon has had tons of experience so I guess he's doesn't worry about liver size *shrugs*

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I had to do 7 days of a full liquid diet before surgery to shrink the liver. My BMI was I think 41 prior to surgery. Not sure why some require it and some don't. I know that I was glad I did it the week before, that way I was prepared for the 2 weeks post op with the full liquid diet. I lost 8lbs that week doing the full liquids which didn't hurt either!!

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My doc only wants me to do two days Clear Liquids before surgery. After reading about all the different diets and problems on here I think I will do the diet for a bit longer!

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I think it all depends on the surgeon. My bmi is 41 and i didnt have to do one and a friend of mine who used the same surgeon was bmi of about 50 and she didn't have to do one.

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My pre-op diet is to eat healthy, three meals a day, cut down sugar and caffeine. Liquids only 3 days prior to surgery.

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On day 7 of 10 of a liquid diet. Have to do a bowel prep tomorrow then clear liquids on Sunday for surgery Monday. My bmi was 42, seems Barix does this for all patients. I would rather be safe than sorry.

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I have a 2 week one I will be on, but I did google some info on it and there are liver shirking diets on there (webmd) if I wasn't assigned one I'd still do one from there. The last thing I'd want is to get cut open just to find out they couldn't do it :/

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Geez...I'm wondering if I should do a pre op diet anyways to just make sure there r no issues with my liver. Ugh

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I was not put on a pre-op diet. I got the lapband in 2002 and the port separated from the tube. I wanted the sleeve but my surgeon said he didn't think i should. I scheduled surgery to get my Lapband revised and my surgeon told me two days before my surgery that he recommends I get the sleeve instead.

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