Too late???

Thanks for the advice! It's nice hearing from someone who also did not have to follow a pre-op diet!

Hello
I also did not have a pre-op diet. I did not even have a bowel prep. I had my surgery in Switzerland, where Swiss German is spoken - I was so worried that I was "lost in translation" and somehow missed the information about the bowel prep, that I asked my surgeon(who can speak English) on the surgery table if it is correct that I did not have a bowel prep.

When I asked my Doctor about the liquid pre-op diet he told me that the reason why they don't do it is that they have a good tool to lift the liver and that some studies have shown that a person's metabolism decrease after the liquid diet. It seems that the immunity also decreases after the liquid diet.

Every Doctor has their own program, which I am sure they have researched well, so just follow your Doctor's plan.

Good Luck with your surgery.

Chuse
Elana

A lot of surgeons don't recommend a bowel prep before RNY. Since they aren't operating on our bowel (large intestine) I don't know why some surgeons do recommend one.  If you don't eat or drink for 12 hours before surgery, which is a common recommendation for any type of surgery, your stomach and at least the upper part of your small intestine, which is what they are actually operating on, will be empty.