Hello Everyone,

Just wondering if any of you did not have the leak test performed. My doctor did not do one and I thought it was a requirement.

I had a leak test done

My doctor stated that his practice does one during surgery and one I had to do the next morning after surgery for every patient.

I had my leak test the following day. You drink a liquid and then the radiologist watched is pass through you stomach and make sure that nothing leaks out of the stomach into your abdomen.

I had leak test the next morning. It was the most disgusting thing every. Not fun when you're already battling nausea. But I didn't throw up. I don't know how. It's standard procedure for my surgeon.

I was outpatient and had mines done a few hours after surgery, I was so disgusted by the taste, oh my goodness, purely horrid.

They give you a tiny cup of horribly bitter tasting liquid that you have to drink up. This is after two or three days of having nothing but ice chips so you are not going to want to have anything to do with it. When you drink it, they make you wait about five minutes (or not, I don't remember) and then they stand you in front of an X-ray like machine and see if that liquid is leaking out of your new stomach. You are going to be nauseated as hell and disgusted with the taste of that thing for the next two hours or so. Drinking that much liquid for the first time after surgery is also going to hurt. (It's equivalent to three sips for a person who has not had the surgery).

Perfectly described my experience as well only mine was what appeared to be about 1/4-1/2 of a cup. A huge amount to drink at that point! And let me just testify that it is by far the most horrid taste I've ever put in my mouth. I don't know how I didn't throw up. Ugh!!!

Yeah mine was the morning after surgery and I couldn't drink until after. The stuff they have you drink is horrible! So glad the hospital is over was not fun.