Cleveland Clinic surgeons are happy to provide patients with bariatric surgery information to ease them into their procedure. Weight loss surgery specialists recommend that these steps are taken on the day leading up to the bariatric surgery:
- Do not eat or drink anything after midnight the night before bariatric surgery .
- Most of your medications, if you have any, should be taken right up until the time you come to the bariatric surgery hospital. This is especially true for heart medications, blood pressure, and diuretics. Take these with only a small sip of water.
- If you take insulin, take half of your normal morning dose, at your usual time.
- Bring all medications you are currently taking with you to the bariatric surgery hospital.
- If you use a C-pap machine at home, you will need to bring it with you to use in the bariatric surgery hospital.
Your Hospital Stay
When you wake up from bariatric surgery, you may already be in the recovery room or go there shortly. Once you are breathing on your own and vital signs are stable, which usually takes several hours, you will be taken to a hospital room. Your stay at one of our bariatric surgery hospitals will generally be 1-3 nights depending on your surgical weight loss procedure.
For more bariatric surgery information, contact the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric & Metabolic Institute.
