I finally get my surgery date tomorrow! Yay! It feels like I have been waiting forever (stupid 6 month waiting period!)...

I wear acrylic nails and I need a fill. (Soon I'll be getting a whole different kind of fill - yay again!) I was going to go in today but I'm wondering if I should just have them removed. Was anyone told to remove them prior to the procedure? I've checked online and of course it's been a mixed bag of responses... just curious what they've told previous banders?

Thanks!

My nails are my own but painted. During my pre-op anesthetic appt, the nurse thought I had acrylic nails and said they were fine, but she cautioned me about painting them dark. I had on a hot pink color that day, which was more of a bright pink than a dark pink. The list she gave me that day also said "no dark nail polish." "Dark" didn't seem very well defined, and I didn't want to chance it, so the next time I selected a polish color, I chose a lighter shade of pink, which would hopefully have been fine for my surgery. I ended up postponing my surgery but I believe it would have worked.

Last week, I needed emergency surgery and specifically asked about my nail polish since I was at a different hospital. I had used a gel polish, which is more complicated to remove and wanted to know what I needed to do. I was told that any shade of nail polish is fine, with the exception of black.