Hi Everyone,

I have a surgery date scheduled for June 12th. Thought I was so prepared with lots of research, reading, and even getting post surgery cookbooks for bypass surgery patients. Today is the first day I logged onto the site after reading the big book. My pre-op appointment is June 7th - nobody has told me to go on a before surgery liquid diet. Should I? Also what is a surgery buddy? I came to this site hoping for encouragement and now I just feel more confused. Please help.

Hello,
I'm preop gastric bypass. My surgery date is 6/21 and I do preop testing on 6/7. I see the surgeon 6/19. I start my preop diet also on 6/7. I have to have 3-4 protein shakes and 2-3 servings of non starchy veggies. 48 hour prior to surgery I go on all clear liquids. And at midnight the night before nothing.
Every doctor is different with the preop diet. You are better off calling your surgeon and find out if you need to do one.
A surgery buddy is someone with the same surgery date that you pair up with for support.
Good luck and keep us posted.[emoji3]

My surgeon does not require a lengthy liquid diet. I just had to do liquids one day prior and then nothing to eat or drink after midnight before surgery. I was surprised because from what I was reading it seems like nearly everyone does 2-4 weeks of liquid diet before surgery. I was nervous about having a giant liver that would prevent my surgery as I was pretty large to start and the liquid diet is primarily to shrink your liver - but everyone went fine with my surgery and I had no complications. I did notice that I didn't gain a ton of weight after surgery like some do and instead had a very large loss that first week. I suspect this was more dramatic because I hadn't done the liquid diet. Also my sugar withdrawl was probably more pronounced the first couple of weeks after surgery - again since I hadn't cut that out entirely pre-surgery.

My 2 week presurgery diet is not a liquid diet. I haven't gotten all the details yet but I know it's 1000 cal and pretty sure high protein. I won't be having surgery until August. I will be submitting for insurance approval the end of June. One I am approved they schedule me for a class to talk about the 2 week liver shrinking diet.

Best wishes. Contact the facility you are having surgery at as soon as you can.

Onetopmom my surgery is also scheduled for the 12th. As far as the liquid diet before surgery some Drs do it some don't. The food lists can vary too. I too have researched and I heard about the big book. I am curious if you think it was helpful? What kind of
Liquids are on that diet? This site is a good one to learn from