*This thread could potentially become TMI. Proceed at your own discretion...*

Oooook! I'm on day 11 of my preop liquid diet! Ten days ago- I didn't think I'd make it. So I am THRILLED to say I've lasted this long. Only 4 short days until I'm in the OR and joining all of you on the other side. But before we get too far ahead, I need to know.....

Did your BM's change when you were on the preop liquid diet? Mine consists of all liquids with the exception of oatmeal, grits, cottage cheese and yogurt. Everything else is either brother, cream (strained) Soups, SF Jell-O, Protein drinks, Water and decaf tea or coffee.

I'm taking in AT LEAST 70 + oz of liquids a day.

I figured the "liquids" would be flying through me, if you know what I mean. But it's quite the opposite. I've never had regular BM's and have dealt with constipation regularly and this diet has thrown all of my pre-existing issues into a freakin' conniption. I honestly don't believe it's from dehydration but I suppose I could be wrong (which isn't a common occurrence kidding...) .

If you feel uncomfortable I would call doctors office and see if you can take something NOW before you are in the 24 hour "window" pre-surgery.

Miralax? That's my new BF

If you had a BM early in the pre-op diet....maybe there isn't a lot to ...uh....process, since its a lot of liquids.

call doctors office. don't wait too long or it will be painful

Mine changed. I'm still pre op, but had to do a trial 2 week liquid diet to "work any kinks out" before meeting my surgeon to see what I liked and if I could handle it. I was in the same boat as you with issues going, and I was worried. I just made sure to drink more and more Water. At about day 12/13 everything changed and I had no issues anymore, and everything was soft. sorry for the TMI, but I hope it gets easier for you as well.

I strongly recommend that you take some kind of daily supplement to help your bowels. If someone had told me this it would've saved me a great deal of worry and discomfort. After surgery I had an impaction from not being able to go to the bathroom, and nobody warned me about it or told me to take milk of magnesia or anything like that. I didn't have to go to the hospital because I do the dirty work myself but it was traumatic an awful anyway. It made me very angry that my surgeons office did not guide me to make sure that I was taking a supplement to prevent this from happening. You're bound to go to the bathroom less when you're eating so little, but if what you are eating isn't coming out it will eventually create a plug that needs professional intervention to fix. Once you get an impaction, no laxative will help no enema can fix it. It has to be done… Manually. The other thing is, taking in much bigger portions of protein in the forms of powder, requires an in Normas amount of water. I found that on the pre-op diet, which for me included basically just drinking protein shakes, my body could not use the protein and it all ended up caked against the wall of my bowel. I have said this 1 million times about every topic: educate yourself. Do not just blindly follow things that doctor say because they are doctors. Western medicine does not take into account individual bodies, genetics cultural influences of what foods will make your body flourish based on where your family has emerged from, and they often forget to tell you about the details, that can create suffering for you. You really have to protect yourself from the ignorance of only taking one point of view into consideration. We all do.

Edited March 31, 201610 yr by JupiterinVirgo