band VS sleeve

[Lmom1980 29]

I am torn between band or sleeve. They both have pro's and con's. What made you chose band?

[dFaults 1]

I stay intact.

[ElfiePoo 109]

Less invasive. Faster healing time. While VS patients lose faster in the beginning, by the end of 2 years, there's virtually no difference in the 'success' rates/weight loss. What I only recently found when I was seriously considering a revision to the sleeve, is that there is about a one year honeymoon period with the vertical sleeve where the hunger is gone because the part of the stomach that produces the ghrelin (hunger hormone) is removed. However, after about a year, the body figures out how to start producing it again. It is not uncommon for VS patients to end up getting a band to control this hunger...since that's what the band does.

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[jodi8135 6]

i choose the band because i still want to have children and they say it is a lot safer with the band then any other surgury.

[Cocoabean 430]

Sleeve wasn't offered when I had my band. I don't know how I'd decide now.

Even now many insurance companies (mine included) do not cover the sleeve procedure.