Rp,,, can u tell me did u take yr meds,night before 1st surgery and morning of??? I imagine therir bloodstream absorbed so should b ok????
And can u drink water morning of surgery??? To take meds,and electrolytes???
We stepped back various things during the week before surgery (e.g aspirin 1 week) with many supplements shutting down the day before. For the 2nd surgery a year later, the head surgeon was pretty lenient as long as we could hit PT and APTT for required bleed times. This was a very special surgeon. He wanted 1.0 for PT/INR; we hit 1.03 with a number of sins, with some pilotage by prior blood tests.
NPO (nothing allowed orally) hit late the night before, for a ~6/7 am surgery. Then they started a drip late night. The last "food", hospital gelatin, was about 12 hours before surgery (I was out of the room 3/4 hour) - then wife had a sugar spike that I had to almost had to tackle the student nurse over an insulin shot that would have caused hypoglycemia. On the second surgery, our surgeon actually slightly broke NPO several hours before 2nd surgery at 6am to allow cimetidine tablets in place of IV cimetidine, no longer readily available (China?). This replaced the newer proton pump inhibitors they typically use now for prophylaxis of acid reflux and aspiration during surgery (cimetidine reigned during the 80s and its in their surgery tables).
Ill ask for tramadol and toradol for pain hopefully that will get me by
After both surgeries, Celebrex/celecoxib was used by our surgeons, which I was happy with since it is highly recommended for CRC inhibition in the LEF articles.