if you wouldn't mind posting your bmi and preop diet

my bmi is 39.5-40. my preop is only healthy foods but i am scared thats not enough. i decided to do liquids(clear and shakes) for 2 days before surgery. i trust my surgeon but i can't see how liquids would hurt.

i am wondering if the reason for the "healthy" diet and not a liquid diet is because of my bmi only being 40

Edited June 8, 200818 yr by slapshot

Jeff - Who is your Dr.? I am from NJ - using Dr. Nusbaum/St. Barnabas Hospital. My BMI is 54 and all I have to do is clear liquids the day before - no preop diet - so I suppose it is totally up to the Dr. I have read alot on this site and the diets go the gamut of none to several weeks. Best of luck - my surgery is June 24th - how about you? MM

Hey MM

my surgeon is Dr Karl Strom from mountainside hospital in Glen Ridge/Montclair.

my surgery is tues the 10th so i am on liquids today and manana

my doc has me on 2 protein shakes (breakfast/lunch) and a high protein low carb dinner for 13 days before surgery. The day before surgery I am on clear liquids ONLY...the day of and the day after surgery...again clear liquid only....then back to protein shakes (3x a day) for the next 2 weeks....

My BMI is 38.6..a couple of reason I was "personally" given was two-fold...one is that this "plan" will help you shrink the liver, making the surgery easier (for the doc) and the other was it gets your mind set going for weight loss...

Hey Tonya - who's your dr. in Illinois?

Hey Tonya - who's your dr. in Illinois?

Hi Lynn..

I am in the Kankakee area and Dr. Soriano is doing my surgery on 6/27...are you also in IL???

if you wouldn't mind posting your bmi and preop diet

my bmi is 39.5-40. my preop is only healthy foods but i am scared thats not enough. i decided to do liquids(clear and shakes) for 2 days before surgery. i trust my surgeon but i can't see how liquids would hurt.

i am wondering if the reason for the "healthy" diet and not a liquid diet is because of my bmi only being 40

I believe that is it... but I would do it anyway....

My BMI is only 40 and I have to do a week of liquids only. The coordinator told me it is an age thing also--older people naturally have fattier livers.

Hi Tonya,

I'm in Chicago and have not been banded yet. I'm trying to find a doctor and get approval from my insurance. I've got all of the qualifications - BMI 52, type II diabetes, joint pain (knees).

I'm trying to locate a doctor in Chicago, but I'm not sure when band is better - Lap Band AP or the Realize band.

Hi All! My Dr. is Pedro Kuri in Tijuana, Mexico. Surgery date is June 17. I have struggled with this pre-op decision for a month now and have done nothing but researched it to death! Dr. Kuri only insists on the Liver shrinking Diet if your BMI is 45 or above. Mine is 43.9. I know probably anything you can do to get your liver shrunk down is best, although I am 1 week out, I have not done anything yet. I do believe though that I will try to do as many protein shakes and with high protein and low carb. foods as I can and a LOT of liquids prior to date. I am not allowed anything by mouth 7 hrs. prior to pre-op testing on the 16th however. I was told that the less food and more liquid you have prior to surgery will help eliminate some of the shoulder pain that one could get from the gas they administer to enlarge your abdoman are before surgery. Hope this helps a little. Believe me I could use all the help I can get to figure out this last week! Kerry

i am wondering if the reason for the "healthy" diet and not a liquid diet is because of my bmi only being 40

Not every surgeon requires a liquid pre-op diet. I am looking at 3 surgeon's offices in my area. Every one of them has a requirement to lose 10% of your body weight before surgery and none of them care how you do it.

Of course, it takes longer than 2 weeks if you are going to do it through healthy eating. I think that's why some surgeons put their patients on the 10 day liquid diet instead. If they can stick to it, it's fast and reliable. But of course a lot of patients can't stick to it.

I think this is why there is no one right answer and they all do it differently.

Mac

the more reading i do the more i see how not only is every surgeon different, but i guess age, weight, bmi, gender, maybe even ethnicity play a role. i am still going to play it safe and do Clear Liquids and Protein Shakes or the next 48 hours