april042019

I hope you all did great today!

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You should be fine by the morning. Good luck!

Also, good luck with surgery 😊😊😊

If the cut off was 10pm then i'm sure it's fine.

Good luck with surgery! Sending good vibes and prayers your way ❤️❤️❤️

Very important to get a good sleep to help body digest

I was also told to stop eating the night before, but they allowed me to have Water until 5 am! You’ll be just fine!

OMG I want to ask my surgeon to do the same thing for me. I hope I can. Thanks!

Congrats! I'm so happy for you!

And Mikeyy is correct, a ball park figure is 3-4 hours, could be,less, robotic are among the best and quickest but you surgeon will take just as long as it takes to get it done rights My RnY surgery was at 7AM , I was done, awake, and in my own room by 10:15. I was 72, if anyone was gonna have problems, by logic, it should have been ME! You youngins should have it "Made in the Shade!" God Bless you all and Happy and Smooth Surgeries!

Except for the few " Open" and although they are few and far between, most are laproscopic these days, and we all , like Grady Cat said, have been there. I was one of the few not to complain about mine, my facility expels as much as feasable at the close of surgeries, so I did not have this problem but I have had others and the friendly consul on here helped me get through them all. "Shrink" your liver if you get the opportunity, it makes your healing go so much more smoothly. I had a fatty liver in July, a month of liver shrink and my surgeon said it was smooth, healthy and pliable and no trouble for him at all. My surgery was quick, smooth and easy for us both! And may yours be the same, April!

You still need to do the pre-op diet to make sure your liver isn't enlarged prior to surgery. Yes, they pump in "air" to expand your stomach so they can reach things, but your liver still needs to be in good shape for the surgery. You'll release gas within the couple of days post-op and your stomach will deflate. It's no big deal. They do it with every laparoscopic surgery. It's normal. I had it too.

Hi. The doctors dont pump your stomach full of air, but they do pump carbon dioxide into your abdominal cavity so they can see what they're doing. Research what is done during laparoscopic procedures, such as the gadtric sleeve. This has nothing to do with the pre op diet. Some doctors don't require a pre op diet, and some do. Don't worry, it'll be fine. But you may have gas pains afterwards. The gas is not in uour stomach or intestines though.

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And not all the air can be let out after surgery. That's why they want you up and walking around asap as much as possible. This is the only time they want you to fart! Take gas-x strips with you to the hospital; you just let them melt on your tongue. You would be amazed, but that gas goes all over inside, and many people (like me) will get a pain in the shoulder, and it's that gas.

Just an FYI - I had ZERO gas pain after surgery and passed no gas at all. The surgeon took extra time removing as much air as he possibly could. I never understood the gas pain thing people talk about. So it may not happen to you, either.

You’ll find that programs are different. My husband and I both had an RNY and his program had no preop liquid diet. They did find during my husband’s surgery that he had a fatty liver, but did not cause any issues with his surgery. The program I went through had a preop liquid diet. So I think you’ll find lots of differences between programs and their requirements and how they advance you with food. For example, my husband was eating scrambled eggs day 2 after surgery. On my program, I had another 2 weeks of liquid after surgery before I was able to eat soft foods like eggs.

Are you going through a Bariatric center in the U.S.? With a BMI of 67, you should most definitely do a liver shrinking diet before the surgery. You don't have a lot of time if your surgery is in 12 days. Be careful and make sure you have a bariatric team with lots of experience and knowledge. You should've been given all the tools you will need for both pre and post-op including a list of bariatric approved Vitamins and what can be consumed before and after surgery. Good luck and do as much research as you can in the short amount of time you have.

If you are going to do it talk to a dietician. The reason people do it is to shrink the liver to make the surgery easier. My liquid diet was supposed to be for 3 weeks but they moved my surgery date up so it was only 2 weeks.

My surgeon sent one year supply of bariatric Multivitamins & Iron to my insurance to collect b4 surgery. After that I plan to get the same ones unless my team says otherwise.

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Not according to my dietician. This has everything. They don’t taste as good as the bariatric ones from Vitamin Shoppe but the fewer pills the better!

Don't you also have to take Calcium?

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I’m pre-op and I’m taking BariMelts Vitamins. I never took vitamins before so I decided I better get into the habit before surgery.

I’m switching to Bariatric Fusion complete. $25 a month, 4 chewables a day that you can take 2 at a time. It’s all I’ll have to take. No additional pills except maybe Iron since I’m not absorbing it and my B12 shots that I’ve been doing for a few years. I figure $25 a month for almost all my Vitamins isn’t bad.

mine said Flintstones but I'd read quite a bit about them not having everything we need. I asked the nutritionist about Centrum (or the generic equivalent), and she said those were even better. Not sure why they just don't recommend Centrum instead. Although my surgery was almost four years ago - maybe they do recommend Centrum now (??). At any rate, I've been taking them this whole time. chewables for the first few months, regular tablets now.

My dietician does not recommend flintstones, vitamin patches, or the Vitamin kreurig thing. She recommend the Bariatric Advantage chewable and then 2 cal chews- i take the BA solo with Iron and then 2 hours later a cal chew and then a few hours later another chew. She said your body won't obsorb the Calcium if you take right after the pill. After having the sleeve I developed a horrible texture issue and couldn't do the chews. They were like a super thick flintstone and made me gag