Surgery Scheduled for March - no Pre-op Diet?

[twinkats 10]

My surgeon does not require a pre-op diet. is this normal? it seems everyone is on some type of liquid diet prior to surgery. Thoughts?

P.S.

I have a slipped lapland and is being converted to bypass, not sure if that makes a difference.

Thanks,

Maggie

Edited February 5, 2016 by twinkats

[DaisyAmy 561]

Some don't require it. My friend and her husband both had sleeves done with no preop diet. ::shrugs::

[jantra12 28]

My surgeon said it depend on your BMI. If it's really high then you have to do the diet. I don't have to do one either and no bowel prep!!

[jj7481 363]

Pre-op diets primarily target shrinking the liver to make it easier for the surgeon to move out of the way, and give them more room to work with. Like said above....it usually depends on your BMI.

[Cervidae 2,389]

My surgeon did not require a pre-op diet, only to make sure I only had liquids for a day and a half before and then no food or drink at all for the twelve hours before surgery. And my bmi was 65 the day before surgery. It was actually higher when she gave me the surgery date, because I did my own pre-op diet and lost about 10 pounds from it.

[SHOTzY 9]

Gee, I wish incident have to have all the pre op diet, but do ????. Im almost done. It's been kind of boring, but doable. I do clear liquid and citrate of mag this Sunday. Wish you all the best!

[jantra12 28]

Best of luck!!!! Hugs your way!!!????

[Heavens2Betsy 7]

I have no pre op diet, no liver cleanse either. Just no food the day prior to surgery and drink a bottle of mag. citrate the prior afternoon (& probably poop all night!). My surgeon says the liver cleanse thing is kinda dubious in that it's not going to clean out your liver much, and losing weight is the whole purpose of having the surgery anyway. BTW: my BMI is 52.5.

[hubbywife 27]

I have surgery in March as well. I have to do the pre-op for 7 days. My BMI is 36. Dr. requires all their patients to do it to shrink liver to make it easier to manuever when performing surgery. So just depends on the dr.

[Liz Bowen Safa 8]

I found out on Thursday I could have the sleeve done on Monday..No Prep diet for me.only day befor surgery on liquid diet..i think it does have something to do with your BMI .mine was 35.the only reason I qualified is because I have high blood pressure...

[losetobemeagain 9]

depends on dr. Mine only requires 2 day liquid. Thank god cause i've seen some people on here talking about 2 or 3 weeks pre ops diets.

[twinkats 10]

Thanks for everyones' input! I really appreciate it, mine is coming quicker than normal due to band slippage so just trying to prepare as best as I can.

[MKJohnson15 29]

I am a revision patient as well and my dr requires two weeks of liquids, lap band removal (which I had Friday,) then 4 more weeks of liquids in-between before my bypass on Match 10th. So when all is said and done with post-op diet, it will be three months before I can have a single bite of regular food. Still totally worth it.

Even for regular bypass patients, they require 2 weeks of liquids to shrink the liver and initiate the weight loss process.

Edited February 8, 2016 by MKJohnson15

[ohh_that_girl 22]

If you are obese you are more likely to have a fatty liver which is heavy and oversized. This can intrude in the doctors field of vision and be more difficult to move out of the way. It's just a step to make the doctors job a little easier and hopefully reduce your surgery time (reducing risk of complication etc etc etc) but your doctor may not require it for a number of reasons

[Jessica Ellison-Correa 66]

I have a 3 week preop diet of regular food just no starches and 2 days before Clear Liquids only so not all drs require a liquid preop diet