Long wait

[billnbrenda 5]

Got back from surgeon yesterday and found my liver is to big and is damaged from all of my med's. I have to lose 60 lbs before he will do the sleeve. He put me on the pre-op diet till I get my weight down. Has anyone had this problem?

[ngoycoanaya@gmail.com 21]

I personally didn't but my mother in law has to have a revision on her bypass due to an entire failure and weight gain plus more, She also has to lose 60lbs and get her liver to shrink but she is highly dependent on her meds so i don't know where she'll go from here. I wish you all the best and motivation to push through your initial disappointment

[devint 162]

Although I didn't have this exact problem, I have heard a lot of stories of all the things that can go wrong if the liver is too big during surgery, so it's understandable what your doc is saying. I also know that for me on the preop diet, I dropped weight quicker than any other diet I had tried in my life up to that point (and that's a laundry list all in itself.) It's not easy but it's doable and it's only temporary. It probably won't be more than a few weeks on that preop depending on how carb restrictive it is for you before those 60 lbs will melt away.

Good luck to you and keep encouraged. The new you is hiding inside somewhere excited to get to come out soon.