Bowel Prep???
Did you bowel prep the day before surgery??? My surgery is Monday and my surgeon's group said I don't need to bowel prep and gave me a diet to follow the day before surgery. My primary care doc thinks I should bowel prep. Have to say I'm not looking forward to it and the diet looks a lot more appetizing. Any insight???
I was on a 2 week liquid diet and still had to do the bowel prep. Believe me, there was still plenty of bowel left to prep if ya know what I mean.
Mel
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No bowel prep but I did have a five day liquid diet and had a small bm the morning of surgery. I doubt there was anything else in there because I only had jello once or twice a day and crystal light.
I would seriously question no prep whatsoever, they are rearranging your intestines and if any 'poo' gets in your abdomen cavity, that is some serious infection-life threatening.
If I were in your shoes, I would be proactive and get a bottle of miralax at the drug store and take it in gatorade (or whatever liquid your doc approves). I would have done it on Saturday since it wasn't on the 1 day diet.
But of course it comes down to trusting your surgeon. If you truly believe in his opinion, then just follow his directions. Good luck and I'll look for your update!
I would seriously question no prep whatsoever, they are rearranging your intestines and if any 'poo' gets in your abdomen cavity, that is some serious infection-life threatening.
If I were in your shoes, I would be proactive and get a bottle of miralax at the drug store and take it in gatorade (or whatever liquid your doc approves). I would have done it on Saturday since it wasn't on the 1 day diet.
But of course it comes down to trusting your surgeon. If you truly believe in his opinion, then just follow his directions. Good luck and I'll look for your update!
Thanks everyone! I'm going to try to squeeze it all in today.; the NUT's diet AND the bowel prep. At least I'll be covering all my bases. Had the diet's breakfast and at 2:30PM CA time I going to start drinking this huge jug of something that looks like nasty tasting watery stuff. Oh well, it's worth the price in the end, better safe than sorry. Then 2-3 hours later, I can continue the liquid diet for today.
----Good luck to all those on the road to surgery and to those who have gone before us! ---
----Good luck to all those on the road to surgery and to those who have gone before us! ---