My surgery is on March 14th. I'm doing my pre-op diet right now and last night I was waking up with terrible calve cramps. Anyone else have this problem?

are you getting enough potassium in your pre-op and are you drinking water like its going out of style? My Dr. had us have a 8oz glass of skim milk or a banana everyday to help with potassium that we couldprocess. And drinking more water helps stops cramps.

are you getting enough potassium in your pre-op and are you drinking Water like its going out of style? My Dr. had us have a 8oz glass of skim milk or a banana everyday to help with potassium that we couldprocess. And drinking more water helps stops cramps.

I'm drinking 3 shakes, 2 glasses of milk, broth, sugar free Jello, sugar free popsicles, and what I thought was enough water but perhaps I'll kick it up a notch. I can't have a banana though. Absolutely no food.

Something I do to help when the muscle cramps hit is to take a couple of anti acids like Tums. The tums take the cramps quicker than if I just let them stop on their own. My old boss who is a nurse told me about this trick.

Keep in mind post surgery, be it sleeve or GBP, you will not have sufficent gastric acid to digest calcium carbonate, which is what Tums are. It's your money and choice whether you want to poop out the cost of them continually. But you will have to switch to Calcium citrate capsules/pills or the liquid form Wellesse I now take. There's a wealth of post- surgery info to learn out there that you have to learn, for you now become a refined, remodeled and renovated personage from before.