Mandated Pre-Op Weight Loss: ASMBS SAYS NO!

Foster was also the reason I almost left OH - I thought she was who I was stuck with as my surgeon, being local and in-network.  She is a piece of work - you couldn't even see her without having lost 10%, as I recall.  Finding the DS also meant finding a surgeon who didn't require pre-op weight loss.

Is she still around?  I am either blissfully unaware, or she is gone.  One can only hope.

Oh, she still around:

http://www.thinnerfuture.com/foster-bio.html

She was in network (I have no out of network benefits) and seemed the best out of my choices and I knew I could lose 10% of my EW even though I thought it was dumb.

Once I realized I'd have to pay for my surgery, I started all over and got the surgery I wanted and the surgeon I wanted so it never became an issue.

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thank you.. I really hope all pre-ops come to the main board and read this..

In a similar/same boat- I hate reading the posts over on the VSG board about suffering through 10 days to up to 3 weeks or more (!!!) of liquid only diets pre-op? I WANT to tell them directly that it is stupid and unnecessary, that it's nothing but torture.. that the Drs can accomplish the whole de-slicking the liver with a week of an almost no-carb normal solid food diet.. but Drs tell their patients that they need to stay on these liquid diets WITHOUT cheating or else your surgery may be canceled (mind **** lie anyone?) to "shrink" the liver... The patients start trying to justify this to themselves as a psychological deal, that it "trains" them to get used to the liquids for the time immediately post op.. Ugh.. sorry, it just bugs me because it makes no medical sense and is contradictory to what you want going into a major operation!  /rant.




 

Yup, and so many of the afflicted seem to actually be REVELING in their misery.  They seem to believe they deserve to be treated like this, as if they are paying for their sins and cleansing them prior to being given the "gift" or "blessing" of surgery.

Bull****  They are playing the role of the masochist to their surgeon's sadism.  THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THESE DIETS DO A DAMNED THING FOR THE PATIENT - NONE!!!