Can anyone tell me if you can eat before a fill. I don't go until 4 pm and I heard that you are not supposed to eat at all before a fill (ex: from the night before) because it could mess up the measurement for how much to fill you and cause it to be confusing to calculate if you are too tight. Is this true? If so... whew 4 pm with no food... liquids with no fill... sounds tough. Any insight would be appreciated!!

P.S. This will be my second fill since surgery.

I have to do liquids for the remainder of the day after the fill but have not been told not to eat beforehand

Every doctor has different ideas for what is acceptable before a fill. Your best bet is to call your doctor. It would be awful to get there only to be told you couldn't get your fill because his office requires you to do something different. Just as info, my doc requires no food 4 hours before a fill (he schedules them all in the afternoon so you can eat breakfast), and clear liquids after.

Hi, this is totally off subject, but since all three of you have the weight tickers, I need to ask...I TRIED putting in the "code" they give me in my signature but for some reason it keeps saying invalid code. I've tried putting all of it, some of it...can you guys help me? For the first time ever I want to display my weight! haha.

On topic: I go for my first fill on 8/5 and no one mentioned not to eat anything etc before going. It's at 11am though...

Well as far as the eating before hand goes... I called my doctors office and was told... that is doesn't make a difference, that you can eat before a fill... you just have to be on clear liquid following the fill so your stoma can heal properly... I am going to be safe and make sure not to eat at least 3 hours before though... hope this helps anyone else who might have wanted to know.

As far as the signature goes: you have to get the BB code and put it in that section other wise it won't take. I did it wrong as least 5 times before I finally figured it out.

Thanks for all of your input! :thumbup:

I don't have to do anything special before or after a fill. i've eaten right before a fill and did just fine. I usually get my fills done on Saturday morning so I go home and drink a protein shake and then have a normal lunch and dinner and i'm fine.

My surgeon's office advised me not to eat 1 hour before the fill. Then liquids for 2 days & mushies for 2 days.

I'm told 5 hours. And when I have a tight fill, 48 liquid, then 48 mush. But my surgeon was also a 3 weeks of liquid after surgery guy. So, he's on the conservative side. I had a fill yesterday, but I'm having such bad gas pains with an empty stomach, that I'm eating mushy tonight- mashed potato. In this case, he actually removed a little bit cause I'd been too tight, so I think that makes it easier as well. But I'll do mushies for at least another day or so to let it heal.

I get my first fill on August 3rd, I was told to only have full liquids that day then the next day mushies then back to normal. I actually e-mail my dietican here is what she said:

Good questions! On the day of your fill you will want to do liquids

only-- this can include all of the full liquids too. Refer back to your

nutrition book (week 1 and 2) for suggestions. The day after your fill

you will need to do soft foods (refer to week 3 of your book) and then

the next day you are back to wherever you were in the diet progression.

You can definitely eat, or drink something rather, before your fill that

day. We look forward to seeing you then!

Hope this helps!!