Before when I had my sleeve, my pre-op was low carb, low calories. I'd say this is standard pre-op. So, this time my pre-op liver shrinking diet is unlimited clear juices like pulp free cranberry juice and grape juice, broths... etc. No solids.

Iget the no solids part, but I had thought to shrink your liver, you need to cut down on carbohydrates (glycogen in liver) and all the 100% fruit juices on the list have high carbohydrates.

I will follow it because he's my doctor, of course, but... Thoughts? Experiences?

that definitely isn't common; however, some people aren't required to do a pre-op diet at all, other than the usual clear liquids only for 24 hours before surgery. Maybe your surgeon is comfortable working around fatty livers if he happens to run into them occasionally - or maybe he doesn't think the two-week low cal/low carb thing makes much of a difference - hard to tell.

On 7/23/2021 at 7:22 AM, catwoman7 said:

that definitely isn't common; however, some people aren't required to do a pre-op diet at all, other than the usual Clear Liquids only for 24 hours before surgery. Maybe your surgeon is comfortable working around fatty livers if he happens to run into them occasionally - or maybe he doesn't think the two-week low cal/low carb thing makes much of a difference - hard to tell.

Thank you so much for responding! If I drink 8 glasses of grape juice a day, the carbs will be out of this world (at least for us WLS patients).

If anyone else gets a diet like this, I found out it is for stomach issues. Makes sense, I have gerd/esophagitis and am awaiting a revision to RNY for that reason.

I'm surprised he advocates fruit juice. Most surgeons say NO fruit juice because high carbs and calories.

I was allowed watered down no sugar added fruit juice during clear liquids pre&post op.