So I was lurking on this forum for about a month (by the way you all are amazing!!) so after being approved for surgery this past Friday I was expecting them to say, "oh and by the way, only liquids from now until surgery...Welp, I was in for a big suprise when she said "Just come here on July 6th for pretesting, and your pre-op appt with the dr will be the day before surgery." soooooo Maye she'll tell me only liquids at the July 6th appt. Even still, my surgery is July 13th so that's only a week of liquids!!

Sound familiar to anyone?

My only pre-op diet was clear liquids for one day prior to surgery. I was on liquids for three weeks after surgery, then a week of mushies, then "gradually" back onto solids after that. Every surgeon is different.

Good luck with your surgery!

Dave

My appointment for my second fill today was postponed several hours because, as my surgeon later explained, he had been called into surgery to assist in another lap band op. But the patient hadn't followed pre-op instructions and had a massive liver so my surgeon advised the other surgeon to cancel and not install the band. Sure am glad I followed his pre-op advice (three weeks of protein shakes....)

Welp, looks like I'm going to just put myself on a diet few weeks before surgery! They did warn me about having a fatty liver, so I'm gonna have one big fat ass meal (no pun intended) lol, and a BOTTLE of wine, and be some with it! Lol

My doc says only one day of liquids pre op...said liquids will make your body too weak and he wants you to be strong to be able to heal up. I asked him about liver shrinkage and he said it's barely negligable, a centimetre at most and he would rather not make you miserable and weak! Makes sense to me!

I also did not have to do a preop diet. My surgery is scheduled for Monday June 20 & I was only asked to do one day of clear liquids Sunday and nothing after midnight. I will have 2-3 weeks of liquids postop before mushies though.