With my surgery date of April 11, I am officially in the middle of day 2 of the liquid diet. I have two weeks for this... And am feeling like I may kill someone before then. I am so hungry, and apparently everyone in my home feels like they need to eat real food. So prepping meals that I won't be able to eat is awful. Thankfully my husband is taking care of most of this stuff. When does the starving feeling go away?!?

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I have a 35 day pre op diet and im down to 32 days left. Its gonna be a lonnnng road. Im allowed two Optifast or other protien replacements a day, unlimited veg ( only some vegies allowed) and a lean meat Protein serve per day. Has to be around 900 calories

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I'm April 11th and live in Northwest Indiana but am having surgery in Chicago.

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My liquid diet started this morning and my head is pounding

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Tried caffeine? 50 years ago my grandfather had stage 4,terminal cancer. He said the worst pain was his headaches... They'd taken away his coffee... Got home before the end, had a cup and his headache vanished.

Just a thought.

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My surgery is April 7. My father is in town and taking the entire family to dinner. Mexican food with amazing fajitas. (I'm in Houston).

I will be staying home while my husband takes the kids to dinner with the rest of my family. I've been fine but going to dinner and not eating would be tough.

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Hey guys April 12th surgery date. Doing the wonderful 14 day liquid diet. So glad someone said something about the BMs... I was wondering if that was normal!

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I have a 35 day pre op diet and im down to 32 days left. Its gonna be a lonnnng road. Im allowed two Optifast or other protien replacements a day, unlimited veg ( only some vegies allowed) and a lean meat Protein serve per day. Has to be around 900 calories

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35 days?!?! Oh wow! That's intense. Why so long?

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I know that's long

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I have a 35 day pre op diet and im down to 32 days left. Its gonna be a lonnnng road. Im allowed two Optifast or other protien replacements a day, unlimited veg ( only some vegies allowed) and a lean meat Protein serve per day. Has to be around 900 calories

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I don't know if i could do this pre-op diet for 35 days. That's a long time to only be on 900 cal a day! I'm not permitted any solid food on my 2 week pre-op; only liquids and 800 calories a day max. I don't think I've come close to that yet! I wish you much luck sticking to it.

Hey guys April 12th surgery date. Doing the wonderful 14 day liquid diet. So glad someone said something about the BMs... I was wondering if that was normal!

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HAHAHA Hayleyhehe. I was wondering the same thing when it first started! I googled it and found it is pretty much normal to experience it. I don't know how I'm going to work with this going on. Luckily Monday I only have half a day, off Tuesday for colonoscopy, and then Wed, Thur, and Friday. Then, surgery! I can't believe it is so close now.

Good luck! I I have 8 days til surgery and It seems forever away. Can't come soon enough. For some reason my mouth always seems dry and I am constantly drinking. I want to brush my teeth like 20 times a day lol

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Good luck! I I have 8 days til surgery and It seems forever away. Can't come soon enough. For some reason my mouth always seems dry and I am constantly drinking. I want to brush my teeth like 20 times a day lol

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My mouth is super dry also. I am drinking allllll day long but it's never enough. Ugh. Oh well.... One more week and it will all be worth it!!

Ashlie M

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I caved ugh I was doing so good. dinner time is the worst for me

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I have a 35 day pre op diet and im down to 32 days left. Its gonna be a lonnnng road. Im allowed two Optifast or other protien replacements a day, unlimited veg ( only some vegies allowed) and a lean meat Protein serve per day. Has to be around 900 calories

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35 days?!?! Oh wow! That's intense. Why so long?

Ashlie M

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Because im on the high end of the weight scale. My highest weight was 167kg. Before pre op diet was 150kg. Also the research shows that 6 weeks is optimal for liver shrinkage, although for paitent compliance 2 weeks is optimal as most cant manage 6. My doc and i discussed what i felt i could manage plus life commitments and we decided on 5 weeks

I caved ugh I was doing so good. dinner time is the worst for me

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It's ok!! Start again now!!

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We are only human, and you caved. Like Ashlie said...start again now! Just do the best you can. Dinner time is difficult for me too; especially if my husband is cooking dinner for himself and sometimes our daughters come and eat here as well. Last night he was making chicken picatta and the aroma was killing me! But, luckily, I didn't give in (not like he would let me anyway) and got through it. I'll eat chicken picatta again, just not right now. We are all in this together! One week from today and hopefully I'll be out of surgery and beginning to recover. Yay!