Pre-Op Appts/Weight

[Arual85 26]

Just curious since I've never had surgery of any kind. What happens at the pre op appointments with the surgeon and the anesthesiologist? Also, has anyone ever gained weight before surgery? I'm super nervous I'm not going to lose enough or that they will cancel my surgery. Which I find crazy because if I could lose weight on my own I wouldn't need the surgery..

[ImsexyandIknowit 47]

I did gain weight, about a 1 month before I was going to get my surgery scheduled they added on an additional month visits. The doctors wanted to make sure I was living the bariatric life style.

I t was all good. I managed to drop about 10 lbs. and we moved forward

[ShoppGirl 3,385]

I gained some weight and my surgeon didn’t seem to care but it varies from dr to dr. It also varies patient to patient because some patients, with health concerns or higher BMI need to lose weight before they can do the surgery safely and also probably because of different insurance policies. As for what to expect at pre op they just went over what to expect at surgery. I watched a video, chatted about last minute concerns with the surgeon, signed a lot of paperwork and they gave me a surgical soap to use for a few days before the surgery. I didn’t meet the anesthesiologist until the morning before surgery and he just asked medical questions to make sure I was fit to go under anesthesia.

[FutureSylph 377]

2 hours ago, Arual85 said:

Also, has anyone ever gained weight before surgery? I'm super nervous I'm not going to lose enough or that they will cancel my surgery. Which I find crazy because if I could lose weight on my own I wouldn't need the surgery..

Same here. They gave me three months to drop a specific number of pounds, but two months later I'm still losing and then regaining the same three pounds over and over, despite water/exercise/careful logging. And I'm sure the dietician is getting sick of my increasingly frantic emails.

[lizonaplane 1,605]

I lost about 45 lbs in the first 6 months preparing for surgery, but then I got close to the lowest BMI could have before I wouldn't qualify for surgery, so I started eating too much again. I am having trouble getting it in check, but I will have a strict 2 week pre-op diet, so hopefully I will stick to that. I don't think I will meet with the anesthesiologist until I go in for surgery. I've met with the surgeon a few times and he has asked a lot of questions about my medical and surgical history (I've only ever had dental surgery), especially abdominal surgery, which operation I wanted, medications I'm taking, etc. He also explained the surgery in detail to me. He went over possible complications, how much weight he thought I might lose (it was way less than I expected!). I asked what were the determinates of losing less or more, and he didn't really have an answer for that.