Excellent point, jiffypop!

Surgeons are much like opinions - everyone has one and they're all different. You find the doc who works with you and for you, and it can make a huge difference in how you weather surgery, how you recover, and how successful you are long term. I like my surgeon as a human being, and as a doctor. He lets his patients call his cell phone - requires it, at first. This was the clincher in my choosing him as my surgeon.

Now, if I need something, maybe I call the office if they're there, because the office staff is like my support team. But if it has to do with my stomach and not just "oh hey, I found this jellybean on the floor, can I eat it" (not really), they tell me to call Doc anyway. He's my stomach guy. He went in there, looked it over, did the work. He's like my gut mechanic. So his instructions to me are personalized, and I take them, except when I don't and have to call and tell him that really, I like Click, I'm drinking it, damn the caffeine content. :)

For example: My surgeon loves G2. He thinks all his patients should live on it for the first weeks after surgery. Well, I am so sick of G2 I am ready to shriek. There is not a flavor left that I can tolerate. So I call up Doc, I'm all "I hate G2. I might hate you for thinking I need G2." He's all "Um, excuse me, Miss Bossypants, but I never said you personally have to drink it forever. If you hate it that much, just get you something nice, no tannins, not so much on the caffeine, add a little sodium and electrolytes and cool your jets."

So I hauled myself over to the Amish store and put together this amazing tea of ginger root (tummy), fennel (tummy), lavender flowers (for my cranky) and a little salt and raw honey. If I like it, I'm making the man a gallon jug and telling him to take his G2 and...yeah. Might be time to change my estrogen patch. :)

ANYway. Do what your doctor says. If you don't like what your doctor says, ask if you can do something else. What people do with their own docs may or may not apply.

Jif- Glad kitty is doing well. My fur babies mean nearly as much as my own children!!

If the ABG is done while I am out on the table SUPER! I don't care what they do to me while I am out (within reason). I had read someone's list what was done and had yet to be done before they had the surgery and that was on the list. I paniced a little.

The docs are kinda leary of giving me NSAIDS in the first place, I have a horrible reaction to Aleve once. But have always been able to take Advil and Celebrex. They kind of scratch their heads and say, "Stick with what works stay away from what doesn't." I am hoping I won't need them after knee surgery next week, fingers crossed!

Thanks for the advice on temps of liquids too. I can't handle ice cold liquids on an empty stomach or early in the morning.

Attitude definately affects everything in life.

IMP- I love your style! You sound a bit like me!! And I also cannot stomach G2 or any "sports drink" for that matter. To me, they feel slimey in my mouth...makes me gag!

Thanks everyone for all the info! You all ROCK!!

Different surgeons, programs, and insurance companies all have different requirements. This is not a test I recall having done. I also never had a sleep study nor a stress test, which many others DO have done as part of their pre-op testing. It varies (are you getting tired of "it depends" type of responses yet? :dizzy:).
I went into full-blown anaphylactic shock after taking Aleve once. I have never taken a single NSAID, not even aspirin, since. I had previously taken Aleve and all other NSAIDs without so much as a hint of a reaction or issue.

The concern with NSAIDs as it relates to RNY is that NSAIDs increase the risk of ulcers in the stomach. This is true for everyone, WLS or no. But with the RNY, the real concern is that an ulcer could develop in the remnant stomach, which is "blind," meaning it can't be scoped like a stomach would normally be scoped to check for ulcers. This could lead to an ulcer going undiagnosed for a long time or having to do a more invasive (surgical) exploratory procedure to diagnose the issue.

I know with ANYTHING medical, the course of treatment, results vary from person to person and doctor to doctor. But it is still nice to hear what everyone has to say. I get a better idea of things I could encounter and ways to deal them. There is no such thing as too much knowledge!

In preparation for my knee surgery next week I have been off all NSAIDS for 8 days so far, I am not liking life so much right now. It's not just my knee that is hurting. Which makes me think I neeed to be looking very seriously at having a DS.