Disaster

[Gettingbysomehow]

Shit!!! I'm going for a joint replacement next week and was supposed to stop my mounjaro for one week beforehand. I forgot and did my injection yesterday.
It's in case you vomit but I'm having it under epidural with minimal sedation so I can't see the problem.
I have no mounjaro side effects like nausea or diarrhoea so I can't see a problem.

You'll need to tell the doctor.

You will need to tell them and they may wish to postpone the op. The difficulty is they may suddenly need to put you under for some reason - and if they do that and you haven’t told them it could have fatal consequences.

They never do GA in the private hospital. It's private under NHS contract. It's epidural only and if they need you put under for any reason they transfer you to a main hospital.

You need to tell the doctor.

But they would have to emergency intubate you first....for transfer. Either way you need to let them know and to pause it next time.

There's a reason they've told you not to OP. It comes from ignorance who doesn't see a problem. People who eat before an op and say they haven't didn't see a problem either.

You need to tell them so they have the information to make a choice.

You need to tell them. The stakes are too high and they tell you to stop it for a valid reason

You need to tell them OP. They don’t tell you to stop taking it for no reason.

You’ll get a new date very quickly if it’s private via NHS. It won’t delay the op by more than a week or so.

You have been given pre-op instructions for your safety that have not been followed, you need to tell them so they can decide what the implications/risks are. Hopefully if they need to cancel it won’t be a wasted surgery slot at such short notice.

That’s even worse then because you’re going to be in a potentially deadly situation if there’s suddenly a complication being transferred from one hospital to another….! If you’re not honest and you become unconscious and need a GA you’re going to potentially kill yourself.

@Gettingbysomehow you may be happy to take that risk, however, you may find they do not want to take that risk- ie- do surgery on a patient who if an emergency occurs is at risk of vomiting/aspiration if placed under a general anaesthetic if the need arises. You MUST inform them, do not put them into the potential position of trying to save your life in what could be a preventable situation.
Although most surgeries are successful with no complications, that is only known after the surgery is complete. It is not known, only hoped, at the beginning of any surgical procedure.