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Diet the day before surgery?

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BluAlert    8

BluAlert
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I am scheduled for surgery in the am and I was just looking through my instructions and realized that I was suppose to be on a clear liquid diet today!! What have done!?! I didn't eat a lot today but I still ate! I'm waiting with baited breath for the on call Dr to call me and let me know if my surgery is off. omg!! this is worst than the last 3 months of waiting! I thought today was just no red dye and nothing to eat or drink after midnight! Somebody tell me this is a crazy dream! What were your instructions the day before?

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Heyher    581

Heyher
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Mine were Clear Liquids day before and nothing to eat or drink 8 hours prior.

I was in the late afternoon, so surgery day sucked.

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The Travel Guru    40

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I did not have a liquid diet day before surgery. I was just told to eat light. I had a turkey sandwich for lunch, and the rest of day I had fruits and yogurt. And then no food or drink after midnight.

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The.new.g    48

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I was only NPO after midnight (no food). You will probably be fine. Good luck.

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Iniysa    157

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Unless you surgery is first thing in the morning, you should be fine. Keep us updated!

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JP69    116

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I just ate lightly, had a Chinese chicken salad for dinner, npo after midnight. You should be fine. The food digests out of your stomach by morning.

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marismommy    4

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I wish I would have liquid fasted the day before the surgery.. or atleast have an enema before the surgery. I was put on a liquid diet the week before because I had to lose more weight. I did up until the day before the surgery and had a cheeseburger with onions for lunch because I thought it would be my last meal. After the surgery, I was so gassy and so uncomfortable plus, you probably will not have a bowel movement for a while. I know I would have felt better if my bowels were a little cleaner prior to surgery. I just wished I could have one great bowel movement to get all of the back up out. It's not too late. You can always pick up an enema at the pharmacy. I wish I had. I had no pain at all and used no pain killers in the hospital, but it was the most uncomfortable I've been ever.. and that is including after child birth.

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BluAlert    8

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It was no big deal at all! Everything went great! Thanks everyone for calming me down!

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pacificpeach    32

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My Dr told me to go out and have a nice dinner. Just nothing after midnight.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. LeighaTR

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        I hope your surgery on Wednesday goes well. You will be able to do all sorts of new things as you find your new normal after surgery. I don't know this from experience yet, but I am seeing a lot of positive things from people who have had it done. Best of luck!

    • Alisa_S

      Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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