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Today I will see my primary care physician for my pre-op testing... then next week I will go over the results with my surgeon in my pre-op appointment... anyway, when I received the packet for what to have done it stated NO food or liquids starting at midnight the night before. I asked my primary and they had no clue why they would require that. I'm having an EKG, chest X-ray and blood work done.... my appointment isn't for another 8 hours and all I want is some freaking water! Anyone else have this restriction before testing was done???

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yes you need to be fasting for the blood work. And also they may do a barium swallow and they want you empty for that also. I had to do the same prior to the pre op testing.

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Yes this is standard, I had to do the same.

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Me too...although they did allow me a tiny sip of Water to take my morning medicines.

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This is luck... appointment with my primary was almost 2 hours ago... they scheduled me on a day their xray tech was off... so, referral to another center was ordered... I got through 8 blood draws... yuck.. and my EKG... then added a flu shot ONLY to find out the EKG machine wasn't working.. so a referral to another center that could do both the chest xray and EKG still today... get to the new place to get everything completed and I've been in line for 45 mins...

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This is luck... appointment with my primary was almost 2 hours ago... they scheduled me on a day their xray tech was off... so, referral to another center was ordered... I got through 8 blood draws... yuck.. and my EKG... then added a flu shot ONLY to find out the EKG machine wasn't working.. so a referral to another center that could do both the chest xray and EKG still today... get to the new place to get everything completed and I've been in line for 45 mins... ugh! I'm so stinking hungry!!!

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