I was on the preop liquid diet for 3 weeks. It was supposed to be two, but I caught a cold and my surgery was bumped, but only a week, so it wasn't enough time to stop and restart, so I just stayed on it an extra week. They did let me have a small amount of lean protein up until 4 days before surgery. I used unbreaded chicken tenders and hard boiled eggs for this. I lost 25 pounds by surgery. My starting BMI was about 38, but I had just about every co-mordbidity except diabetes. My liver enzymes were elevated on my cholesterol tests, but the surgeon said it could be due to a fatty liver instead of meds. My liver looked pretty good in surgery, and my recent followup bloodword still had elevated enzymes, but my numbers were great (total 142, triglycerdes 53, HDL 65) so she stopped both my cholesterol meds and I recheck in 6 months. I was also able to stop one BP med and my reflux med. I may lose the other BP med later on. If you aren't on cholesterol medicine, you might want to ask the surgeon if he thinks it means you have a fatty liver. The preop diet will help that, and shrink your liver to make surgery easier. Good luck with your journey.

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Snickers--my newest furbaby

Start/Current/Goal
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Banded 3/25/08
Dr. Kuldeep Singh
St. Agnes Hospital
Baltimore, MD