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After 9 days on liquids I ate food. Not much, but even so I ate food. How bad is this? I am suppose to have my surgery this Thursday coming up and I am scared that I have messed myself up.

I’ll get back on nothing by liquids today which will give me another 4 more days before surgery. Will that help?

Please, any help would be great.

You are fine. Don't beat yourself up. Your surgery will happen.

i had my consult on friday and the dietician said i needed to do the liquid diet for atleast a week before hand, as that is what catergory bmi i am in, however, i was thinking it might be worth doing this for 2 weeks, she said it was up to me, however, i do not want to mess up, becasue i have decided to do longer.

should i stick with a week?

I did not have to do the liquid diet pre-op, but I took a pre-op class with a woman whose best friend was banded on a Thursday. She was to do the 2 week liquid diet. She told me that the Tuesday before her surgery they celebrated with dinner at Applebees. She said her surgery went fine and implied that she was noncompliant with much of the two week liquid diet.

the whole point of the liquid diet is to shrink your liver, the smaller it is, the easier it is for the surgeon. If you can do the 2 weeks, I say go for it.

You're OK. I am scheduled for Thursday, also, and I don't even start my liquid diet til tomorrow!!!

My surgeon told me there is no hard and fast reason for doing pre surgery diets...thats why there are so many people doing such different pre ops. He feels the pre diet: (1) gets you in the right mindset for post surgery diet (2) keeps you form having yor last "huge meal" the night before surgery and (3) shrinks your liver down so it is easier to work on you.

So.... never fear...you will have your surgery :smile:))) :ohmy:

julie

Yep, just get back on the diet and stick with it. If your liver is too large for surgery, your one little bout with solid food won't have changed anything. They'll close you back up and try again later.

But Post-Op is a different story: do NOT eat solids when you are supposed to be on liquids. If you have to, just go take a nap and sleep.

You can do it! :ohmy:

I read here on another thread that it actually takes 6 weeks to shrink your liver. The point of the liquid diet is to make your fatty liver less slimy so it can be pushed aside easier. Thats why for higher BMIs you do the pre opt, but for BMIs below 40, they dont require it. The poster is the one who wrote the thread about how to shop for a Mexican doctor and seemed to know her stuff.

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After 9 days on liquids I ate food. Not much, but even so I ate food. How bad is this? I am suppose to have my surgery this Thursday coming up and I am scared that I have messed myself up.

I’ll get back on nothing by liquids today which will give me another 4 more days before surgery. Will that help?

Please, any help would be great.

I would imagine you would be fine, my dr. only required a 1 day liquid diet pre op, but all docs are different and every body is different. I think a more serious question to ask yourself though is, 'Will you be able to follow the post op diet instructions?'. I don't say that to be mean, but it is a serious issue. Your body has to heal and to not follow the instructions then, could be serious.