I have to be honest....

[Kayla 6]

I am only 3 days from surgery I am scheduled to be at the hospital on Monday @ 7 AM!!! And I am freaking out....lol I am thinking about all of the negative, when I went to my final pre-op with the Doctor on monday I had lost 14 lbs since starting my pre-op diet. Well instead of saying wow great job which I thought I had done a FANTASTIC job he looks at me and says we need to get a lot more weight off because your liver is very large.....and then goes on he never says how much more he feels my abdomen and said everything felt good IDK can he tell how large my liver is approximately by feeling my abdomen???? Then I asked him how much more do you want me to get off and he says 10 more lbs. Well I have lost another 3 so I still have 7 to go and I don't really think I am going to be able to do it by Monday morning!! I am so scared that he is going to open me up and decide he can't do anything because of my liver I have been following my liquid diet EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!

[SmokyMtnGal2011 10]

Why do doctors do that?????? I would say try to walk or some type of exercise that will help burn those calories and move that silly scale. If you are following his insturctions you should be find. You are so close don't back up now, you can do it!!!! best wishes and keep us posted

[KristeyK 3]

Believe it or not- you can EASILY feel your liver. I don't know why they say the preop diet is to shrink it though...all it does is shrink SOME of the fat AROUND your liver. (And note the emphasis on SOME. LOL)

Keep on doing what you are doing. He's more than likely wanting to push you to continue being serious about this. DO NOT let it get you down or freak you out. He'll still get in there and perform the procedure. Heck, the VSG came about to be its own surgery because a bypass procedure could not be safely performed on the super morbidly obese patients, they couldn't be under anesthesia that long. They would make the stomach into a sleeve, and so many of them would be successful with just that portion of it, that they would cancel the other half of the surgery.

Good luck to you!

[FishingNurse 1,210]

I think you are doing a great job, and your doctor was treating you a little rudely!

I work full time with a doctor and he says your liver (or mine) is probably not that big, at least to be felt like that.

I can't see your ticker, (they are blocked at work) so I am not sure about your starting weight.

I am 28, 5'4'' and my high weight was 262, and ate out almost 100% of the time for meals and I have a lean liver according to my ct scan. The big fatty liver than can be felt like that is usually from being an alcoholic or being older and obese, and and having comordidities like diabetes.

Were any of your liver function tests elevated? LIke AST, ALT, etc?

You are 22, and you probably have nothing to worry about, keep up what you are doing. Be pround of your preop weight loss. :-)

[MeMeMEEE 206]

hang in there Kayla! I have lost about 8 lbs on my pre-op over the last 11 days - just not losing like some but anything is better than nothing! Our day is coming!!

[mamamckinzie 92]

Hang in there Honey!!! Gotta remember that most surgeons have a bedside manner of a baboon! But as long as they are great in the OR who cares? You are doing AWESOME and he will be able to move the liver just fine with the surgical instruments if he even has half a brain. Saving you a seat on the losers bench for ya!

Oh and by the way..I have a rare liver disease called Primary Biliary Cirrhosis. If they can perform a VSG on me they should have no problem with you my dear.

[Kayla 6]

Thanks Guys!!! I really do like my surgeon I think I was just caught off guard by him when he approached me that way. Because that is not his normal personality usually he is kind and caring. I had been Plateauing for three days but this morning I weighed and 3 more lbs are gone =) only 4 more to go before Monday!!!!!!!