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I completely feel you! Mine is on the 20th.what all are you allowed to have now? Protein shakes, sugar free yogurt, Jello, and 100% juice, decaf coffee & tea blah blah blah

Loved it, will go review asap

Day 2 of my preop diet...the struggle is real. Is it April 23 yet?

girrrrrllll Nervous isnt the word for it! Yesterday I had a full on melt down. I start my liquid diet on Thursday, surgery is in 2 weeks and 2 days. In preparation for the liquid diet I slowly phased out one meal a day over the past several weeks. At this point for the past couple weeks I'm only eating one high protien low carb meal a day, so the liquid diet should be no problem right? I started FLIPPING out, what if I can't do the pre op diet, what if I cant handle the pain of surgery, what if I ruin this tool I was given? OMG I was a wreck! But a great thing happened, a bigger support system came out of it, and I'm feeling better today. I hope you are too!

Every surgeon is different, there is a surgeon in my area that is much less conservative than mine as far as the post op diet. Ithink I should be able to start my vitamins by day 2 or 3 post op and they are chewable.

I have UHC too! It did take 6 months for me as well. I had 6 appointments with my pcp, a nutritionist visit and a psych evaluation. I started the process in Oct of. 2014 and was approved at the end of March. Hang in there, it will be worth it! It TOTALLY will be! I'd say the hardest part was the 2 week waiting game between insurance approval and scheduling.

Are you referring to the 6 month supervised diet? That is part UHC requirement for surgery but you don't request authorization until you've completed that time period and my surgeon required several classes, psych and nutrition eval, get a letter a medical necessity and clearance from my PCP. Stuff like that.

My documentation was submitted on 03/12 and approved on 03/18. UHC was amazing, as were the staff at my surgeons office making sure all our ducks were in a row before submitting.

I'm April 23 also, just found out today and I couldn't be more excited to finally be here!!