I have gone to my seminars and everything and can't for the life of me remember what he requires for post op food stages. Could be I read too much Lapband Talk and swirls my brain :-) I am going to call Monday and get another packet, but a friend of mine is going down town this weekend to hit some health food stores - I wanna go and get some supplies. Anyone know how long his stages are and what the requirements are? Thanks for the help! Oh, and keep your fingers crossed that Monday I get a surgery date.

I have my surgery on February 22nd. He told me to stay on all liquids for 7 days prior to surgery...That includes slim fast shakes and chicken/beef liquild soup

We are going to be close together, he does mine on Tuesday 19th. I am on liquids for 1 day (but I think that is because I got in so quickly.) I found out on Wednesday of last week, had my preop on Friday, do Clear Liquids tomorrow and surgery on Tuesday.

I liked to have died when I found out we can't ever use powder Protein. I have spent a small fortune on protein powders. But, he has the best success rate, so I am going to do what he says.

Good luck with your surgery, keep in touch.

He only does surgery on tuesdays and friday so you are close to the same date. Did they give you a time on when your sugery would be? They told me to be there at 6 in the morning and i would find out then...That kind of sucks for family coming over for support. I find the slimfast shakes to be filling so far. Are you outpatient or staying over the night? I will be outpatient and will be coming back the same day. Hope all goes well with your surgery. I'm going to try out the support groups so I may see you there.

Chad

They told me to be there at 5:30 and I should be having surgery around 7:30. I am having it at University General and my Insurance is making me stay overnight. I will make a few of the support groups, it is over an hour to his office, so that sucks for an hour support group, but I am sure I will go some. They have a local support group (not affiliated with Spiegel) that I will probably go to here.

I hope you are doing well on your first post surgery day. Dr. Speigel did my lapband May 12, 2006. I did the whirlwind thing as well....went to seminar on sat., had consult with him mon. , wed had pre-op and friday morning was getting my lapband. I have never regretted it. I have lost over 80#s so far and have about 20 to lose. Good luck and I am looking forward to hearing about your progress.