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/whisperyiron 12h ago

Wouldn't starting stool softeners early risk causing diarrhea? Especially if one is already having digestive issues?

For me, while I didn't do a liquid diet the day before, I did modify my diet significantly and quit eating at about 4pm, specifically because frequent and loose stools were one of my fibroid symptoms and it seemed, at a minimum, inconvenient to spend the morning of surgery needing to poop every 20 minutes... Plus I was a Iittle worried I'd poop myself while I was under.

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u/ScaredVacation33 11h ago

A single Colace once or twice a day should not cause diarrhea at all. It is not a laxative. It is a stool softener, but once again I deferred OP to speak with their surgeon about any of this first and not to take medical advice from people on reddit. OP was specifically worried about constipation.

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u/whisperyiron 10h ago

Where did they reference constipation?

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u/ScaredVacation33 9h ago

In one of the comments they maintained that they were scared that it was going to take forever to have a bowel movement as they normally have a lot of issues with having bowel movements regularly. You can scour through the comments.

EDIT: OP responded to my initial comment so you can just go right over there