To clean out, or to not is the question.

[Oceanlove 98]

Cleaning out your intestines just makes sense to me given what they are doing. My sister did this 15 years ago her Dr had her clean out.
My surgery team doesn’t even mention it.
So my question is did yours require you to clean out prior to surgery? If so what did you use and when?
Because I’m leaning more towards doing it but I don’t know what to use or when exactly.
Or is it pointless?

[Matt Z 4,139]

3 hours ago, Oceanlove said:

Cleaning out your intestines just makes sense to me given what they are doing. My sister did this 15 years ago her Dr had her clean out.
My surgery team doesn’t even mention it.
So my question is did yours require you to clean out prior to surgery? If so what did you use and when?
Because I’m leaning more towards doing it but I don’t know what to use or when exactly.
Or is it pointless?

Back in 2011, I saw that bypass patients were being given meds to flush their systems prior to surgery, so I was surprised when I didn't have to do that for my revision to bypass. Things change, if your surgeon / surgical team doesn't require it, I'm sure there is a reason, more than likely the flush wasn't necessary and simply doing liquids for a while before hand was enough.

I'd suggest not doing anything on your own without talking to your team. If you end up doing the wrong thing or taking the wrong thing... you *could* end up having your surgery canceled or delayed. Might not happen, but do you really want to risk it?

[Bryn910 519]

I was on a two week liquid diet when I had my revision to bypass, so I am sure my team thought that was more than enough.

when I had my sleeve, I was told to take the magnesium citrate I believe. I have also taken the magnesium citrate for my other abdominal surgeries to make sure my bowels weren’t full so they didn’t get in the way of the surgical procedure

[Sosewsue61 3,185]

Mine did not require any clearing of the pipes, so just follow your dr's advice.

[Oceanlove 98]

Thank you all for the input. I appreciate it.