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I have had liquid all day, I drank the magnesium citrate at 2 pm and have only gone to the bathroom a little bit. Should I drink more of it?

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How much did they tell you to drink? In the hospital we make our girls drink boat loads of it before surgery.

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Half a bottle, which they didnt define how big a bottle. Mine was 10 ounces. I drank a little more than half.

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Were there bigger bottles? I didn't even have to do a bowel prep before mine. Completely surprised me. But each surgeon has his/her own rules. I'm just used to all my gyn surgery pts having had bowel preps prior. If they said 1/2 a bottle and there weren't like 60 ounce bottles there I'd say you're good.

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I can't drink anything after midnight, I'm getting ready for bed now. I did go 3 times over the course of the day. I have to be at the hospital at 545 am, do I hope it was enough.

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Disneynut02,

I'm sure your fine!! I did not have to do anything except nothing to eat or drink aftr midnight! Good luck, thinking of you!!!

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Disney i will be praying for a fast and easy recovery for u. Let us know how u are doing after surgery and after u are walking.

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Were there bigger bottles? I didn't even have to do a bowel prep before mine. Completely surprised me. But each surgeon has his/her own rules. I'm just used to all my gyn surgery pts having had bowel preps prior. If they said 1/2 a bottle and there weren't like 60 ounce bottles there I'd say you're good.

I dont have to drink that stuff eith when my surgery gets here on July 16. I have ti take the Osmoprep script the doc sent me....wasnt cheap either $65. I start at 7am with 4 pills then take 4 every 15 min till the hr is over at 8am that 20 pills in an hr. Then 12 hrs later I have to do the same thing (12 mire pills total)...each dose taken with 8 Oz Water, well will get my Water in for the day. Ughhhhh!!!!!!!

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So how did it go? How are you feeling

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If you were on liquids all day and then took the laxative there really would not be much in your bowels if you are regular in your bowel movements if you know what I mean. If there was nothing in your system to poop out then you probably would have only went once. Good luck with your surgery :)

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    • 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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    • 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

        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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