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It does -- thanks Better Bee! Your surgeon and mine seem a bit more in synch...my instructions are just not to have any food or drink after midnight the night before surgery...when is your surgery date?

hi Creekimp - thank you! that is good advice and i do plan on calling the surgeon early tomorrow morning to see if they can get me scheduled asap. They are part of a grouping of buildings and it was scheduled for an adjacent lab and they had scheduled it that day for the following day so hoping they can get me in on Tuesday and they post the results and I'm good to go. I have always had borderline low blood pressure but since I've gained a bit more in the past couple of years, my BP is normal so I'm hoping all should be ok... I had an upper GI years ago for some stomach issues but i didn't have one ordered from this surgeon before this surgery..so hopefully all will be okay if i can just get the EKG done. Good luck on Tuesday - it's awesome how much you've already lost!! please post how you're doing after your surgery!!

glad you are doing well YM -- hoping the pain goes away soon. Congrats!

I'm sure that's frustrating but I think everyone is different and I'm sure your pounds will come off soon enough..it has to! interesting you are getting cravings...hang in there!

Thanks buddy! no pre-diet for me - just said stay on my reduced plan and don't go crazy the night before - have the last meal a few days before! how about you - liquid pre-diet? Although I just realized this morning that they had asked me to get an EKG and I missed it. Eek. So I'm hoping since results are instantaneous that I can go get one in the next day or so and keep my 12/7 date. I'm nervous and of course the office is closed. Fingers crossed I keep the 7th too!

oh that's a good idea...thanks! I'm going to order some of the powder too.

oh dang that stinks because of someone else's mistake. were they able to fix it in time?

Thanks for the info everyone...good to see I'm not the only one who doesn't need to do much pre-op and I may steal the white grape juice idea the day before lol... My issue now is I just realized when the woman told me to go for blood work a couple weeks ago, she put an EKG appt on there for the same day in a different building..I had told her I could squeeze the blood work in before an appt I had later that morning so I never even looked at the paper that said I needed an EKG done that day. My surgery is supposed to be Thursday - I'm hoping I can call and get one scheduled and get over there tomorrow and it will be done in time. I hope since results are immediate for that it will be okay...I see others mention getting an endoscopy but I didn't need one of those I guess or another case of everyone's surgeon being different... I have a sinking feeling my surgery is going to be pushed

Jessie - do you drink caffeine normally? when my husband gives up caffeine, he gets horrible headaches...is that an issue for you?

I hope so - let's see what happens on 12/8 if I sill feel the same way. My surgery is next Thursday the 7th. Hard to believe it's almost here!!

Hi - I'm still new here but I'm reading so much about others starting their pre-op liquid diets. My surgeon told me he doesn't do that -- just be careful the few days before and don't go crazy or it will make you feel worse afterwards which I've been following (my surgery is next Thursday, 12/7). I've also met others that have not had the pre-op liquid diet in person so that makes me feel better...but I haven't met anyone who isn't doing some sort of elimination drink the day or night before surgery? Anyone else out there who is not doing a pre-op liquid phase? Or an "elimination" drink the day before? Just wondering how uncommon this is..thanks in advance for sharing.

Good luck GM although it sounds like you won't need it -- you got this! (will write down MHY's advice for next week lol)

Not long at all -- they said it normally takes 2-3 weeks but it was much faster. My final nutrition/surgeon visits were 11/17, had blood work done 11/18 and even with the holiday, approval came in today...so less than two weeks? has yours taken awhile? I have Aetna...

did you get which surgery sorted out Briar? I think I read that your insurance wanted to recommend you for bypass instead of the sleeve? I didn't know they could overrule a surgeon..hope it got straightened out!

I guess that's true Mrs O ! just trusting he knows what he's doing lol! but that is awesome that you are already down 9lbs - way to go! you'll be a day ahead of me -- good luck next Wednesday and keep in touch too!

lol you're scaring me a bit saltykisses!! lol! I checked with a couple people at work who have been sleeved and they used different surgeons than i'm using and they did not have a pre-surgery liquid diet either..just said not to have a big meal the last couple of days... now what really makes me nervous is they had to drink a liquid the night before to clean everything out so to speak...i don't have to do that either - not sure if i'm good with this or not lol...but i did call the surgeon and confirmed it!

hi does that make us sleeve buddies? My insurance approval came through today...so confirmed for 12/7! Glad everything is going great so far for you!!

I just found this forum today -- so excited to have found it -- so many success stories and supportive people.Hi everyone!! I have a tentative sleeve date of 12/7 provided insurance approval comes through in time. I'm a little concerned though as I see so many people talking about starting their liquid diet pre-surgery...I guess every surgeon is different as my surgeon is not requiring that? Anyone else for 12/7?