Pre Opp Diet

Verno
on 2/6/11 11:09 am
Does anyine know how common it is for your liver to be too big for surgery?  I have to follow a low carb low fat diet for 3 weeks prior to surgery.  I am in week 3 and i have lost 16 pounds,  I have had a little carbs and healthy fat (avacado, nuts) each day so I'm really anxious that my liver hasn't shrunk enough for surgery.  Is it more about the weight you have lost before surgery or the food you eat?
Thanks for any thougts  you might have:)
Wendy's Dream
Came true

on 2/6/11 11:59 am - Mesa, AZ
VSG on 08/09/22
For my pre-op I was on a 2 week clear liquid diet.  It seems to be pretty common and I think most of us had a liquid diet.
 Wendy  

   1st fill 4cc,  2nd fill 1.5cc  3rd fill 1.5cc 4th fill .5   Total 7.5 cc  in my 11cc Realize Band.
                     
 Reached 1st goal weight 158 on 6/8/10, My Starting weight 235  
                                               Hit final goal of 145  10/25/10 
                                                    
  Current weight 143  
                                If you work the band the band will work for you.
    
              
Cocobean
on 2/6/11 12:01 pm
 I don't think it's a common thing, although it does happen.  No one is a text book patient.  One of the liver's functions is to break down fats ingested by the body and it also helps convert calories to usable sugar for the body.  That's why the doctor encourages a low fat/ pre op diet. (Even healthy fats are still being broken down by the liver, so be careful)  One that will reduce the livers size so that you have less of a chance of it being nicked by one of the surgical instruments.  Mindset being the less it has to work, the smaller it's size, in a nutshell.  
Hope that helps a little.  Read about the livers function on a web search, maybe it'll help you understand more.  
My answer would have to be, it's about the food you eat.  
Hopefully others have some insight on this as well.  
    
"Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." ~ Mark Twain
Kate -True Brit
on 2/6/11 3:45 pm - UK

In 5 years on OH, I have read of just one person who was turned away from surgery because of this.

Many people don't even do pre-op diets- their docs don't require them

Kate

Highest 290, Banded - 248   Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.

Happily banded since May 2006.  Regain of 28lbs 2013-14.  ALL GONE!

But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,

   

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