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Originally Posted by KarenInKali
Ahh, I see you have done some of your research regarding the diet already then! It's just so weird that we can be on here and all of us have different things that are required from our surgeons. I was looking at a different thread today where people were saying how long before/after they eat they aren't supposed to drink water... the average is 30 before, 30 after, but I saw so many different things on there...  |
I saw that thread too about the water Karen. Someone, I can't remember who now, said they were allowed to drink
immediately after a meal.
Honestly, I believe that one was a case of bad communication, and I wonder how that person is doing at losing weight because of it, because their meal is getting prematurely ejected from their pouch because of the water.
I think many of the differences we see on the boards are in how/where the doctor was trained and how up to date he/she is with the latest information. We have to remember that some of these surgeons do WLS as a very secondary thing in their practice, and maybe only do a few cases a month, or even a few cases a year. So naturally they, (and the people who work for them) are probably not going to be as knowledgable about the dietary changes/requirements as a surgeon who does WLS as his primary thing, and has performed thousands of them already. This is just my humble opinion, but because of this opinion, I chose to drive an hour away for all of my WLS stuff, and will continue to do so for my post-op care. I could have did this minutes away from my home, but I didn't have a high confidence level with the drs/staff/hospital like I do with the dr/staff/hospital I eventually chose.