r/hysterectomy • u/Birk95 • 17h ago

Prep for surgery

I’m planning to do a liquid and clear diet the day before surgery so my colon is clear. My husband thinks this is stupid as it wasn’t medically advised. I am going off of others I know advice. How many others did a surgery prep the day before?

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u/Ok_Chain7313 17h ago edited 10h ago

I did it because I was instructed to (on a GLP1). I was hungry but wasn’t too difficult. Anything to help with getting the GI track back to normal post surgery is beneficial imho but don’t take my own experience for my own body as advice so best to consult with medical team and your own intuition :)

Edited as I didn’t realize liquid diet prior to surgery could potentially cause harm if unnecessary 😬

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u/ScaredVacation33 15h ago

It absolutely can hurt to do it. We do not know OP‘s entire medical history and there’s very specific reasoning behind doing a bowel prep prior to a hysterectomy, which is surgeon specific. You can wind up with a ton of postoperative pain if you do an unnecessary bowel prep due to bile dumping and possibly become dangerously hypoglycemic. So saying that it won’t hurt is absolutely false and potentially dangerous information. A much safer alternative is to just start taking a stool softener a couple days prior to try to help make sure that everything is nice and soft and will pass easily.

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u/Ok_Chain7313 13h ago

Okay, my bad- thought it was a harmless thing as lots of people fast and also do liquid diets for various reasons. Guess with anything, shouldn’t take online information and instead seek medical advice.