Hi,

Anyone else had surgery by Mr Hassn in Bridgend Clinic in Wales UK? Saw Mr Hassn this week and I got a call from the clinic yesterday to say they could carry out my sleeve on April 24th. Excited, nervous, well scared a little to be honest.

Mr Hassn doesn't require a pre op diet! I was very surprised as my sister had a gastric sleeve 2 years ago with Roger Ackroyd in Sheffield and had to follow a 10 day milk diet pre op. She has lost over 110 lbs by the way and swears by this procedure.

Any advice or experiences with Mr Hassn? Seems like a really nice guy.

It's fairly common to not have any special pre-op diet (other than the usual day before surgery thing) - it's maybe a 50-50 split between docs who do them and docs who don't. It's hard to tell from online feedback as those who don't have any special diet to do don't have anything to complain about while those who do have lots to talk and post about! There also doesn't seem to be any correlation with overall success of the program - it's more a matter of whether one can follow the program guidelines that lead to success than what exactly those guidelines are.

2 hours ago, RickM said:

It's fairly common to not have any special pre-op diet (other than the usual day before surgery thing) - it's maybe a 50-50 split between docs who do them and docs who don't. It's hard to tell from online feedback as those who don't have any special diet to do don't have anything to complain about while those who do have lots to talk and post about! There also doesn't seem to be any correlation with overall success of the program - it's more a matter of whether one can follow the program guidelines that lead to success than what exactly those guidelines are.

Cheers Rick. Makes sense ?