2 week liquid pre op... How tough is it?

[danelle235 79]

Day 1 of my 2 week liquid pre op starts tomorrow! I cheated SO much over the past 2 weeks on the 'high Protien' phase, but I'm determined to get through the liquid phases! Please help prepare me! How hard is it, really? Any tips???

[Lauren13 6]

For me, it was tough but tolerable. Just try to find the light at the end of the tunnel! Day of surgery you'll be glad you stuck it through! My best suggestion would be sleep as much as you can and drink your heart out lol, but seriously drink as much as you can to fill your stomach. Also, surround yourself with people who you know won't tempt you with the wrong foods. You can do it!

[mrchris 98]

It was the worst... The liquid diet after wasn't so terrible. But doing it while otherwise normally being able to eat and doing it out of sheer willpower was tough. Actually just the first few days are bad and then it's not that big a deal.

Day 3 was far and away the worst of it. Horrible headache, terrible moodiness. A guy cut me off in a parking lot and I was in such a mood that I ripped him inside out for a solid 15 minutes, reduced him to tears. By day 5 I was fine, the rest wasn't so bad.

[danelle235 79]

Ok, so how big of a deal is the surgery? Really. Is it a really big deal, or like... a medium big deal? I realize it means life changes, but is it really really the worst thing and hardest thing, ever??

[mrchris 98]

For some it's a big deal. For me, I was totally freaking out the morning of. They couldn't get an IV started (took 5 different people including the chief of anesthesia and they still took hours to get it going and hundreds of pokes with a needle).

Apparently my initial wakeup in the recovery room didn't go so well. Something about being very agitated and throwing things around. They had to knock me back out. But when I woke up 8 hours later I actually didn't feel too bad at all.

I had mine on a Thursday morning. Friday wasn't too bad, especially that afternoon when I got home. Just a little mild heartburn and the gas pain. Saturday was like nothing ever happened. Off the pain meds except some liquid tylenol. Sunday was a cakewalk and I worked a full 10 hour day that Monday. Some people have it even easier, some have it far worse.

I think it's a combination of a few things, some of which no one wants to admit to. Surgeons skill plays a role, big role. Personal pain tolerance and not being a wuss (this is what no one wants to admit to). I personally hate needles and I am scared to death of them (as a 12 year old I got bucked off a horse and landed in a wasp nest, suffered hundreds of stings) but I have a very high pain tolerance. And lastly is just a little bit of luck. All else being equal there will be different results because of a million different factors from time of day to simple dumb luck.