RNY OR SLEEVE?

[vicki s 146]

HELP!! Had all my pre-op testing done today & meet with the surgeon in two wks. My Insurance has no requirements so they said I will most like have my surgery in November. I need help to decide which one I want to go with.

HELP!! Had all my pre-op testing done today & meet with the surgeon in two wks. My Insurance has no requirements so they said I will most like have my surgery in November. I need help to decide which one I want to go withY

RNY!! I had the band and the sleeve, then ended up with RNY, the only regret I have is that i wasted time and had two surgeries before the RNY, just wish i would have done it right the first time!

[patticake1448 78]

I did all my research and was sooooo set on the sleeve. Both my surgeon and NUT recommended RNY due to my diabetes, but it waa my NUT who really convinced me. She sees all the WLS patients long term and she said she has seen RNY patients be more successful in the long run. I have a major sweet tooth, and fear of dumping has kept me away from sweets so far. Better than that, I left the hospital on only one diabetic med instead of three. One week after my surgery, my surgeon took me off my last diabetes medication! My blood sugar is now normal with no medication, yaaaaaay

[patticake1448 78]

I did all my research and was sooooo set on the sleeve. Both my surgeon and NUT recommended RNY due to my diabetes, but it waa my NUT who really convinced me. She sees all the WLS patients long term and she said she has seen RNY patients be more successful in the long run. I have a major sweet tooth, and fear of dumping has kept me away from sweets so far. Better than that, I left the hospital on only one diabetic med instead of three. One week after my surgery, my surgeon took me off my last diabetes medication! My blood sugar is now normal with no medication, yaaaaaay

[nervous2013 2]

Thats awesome!!

[Scylla 106]

Hi everyone. I have been completing my requirements prior to surgery since the end of August, which includes 6 monthly visits of medically supervised weight loss with my surgeon's nurse/bariatric coordinator. My last visit with her is at the beginning of March. After that, assuming all of my other requirements have been met they will put in for approval (which is expected very fast with my HMO).

I have done a lot of research since even before August about what surgery was right for me and I was convinced it was the sleeve. Liz (the bariatric coordinator) was very honest with me yesterday and said she thought I might not have very good success with the sleeve because I have been struggling to lose weight and definitely have a fondness for sweets. She also said that when she attends the surgeon's office's monthly support group sessions she is kind of jealous that the patients who had RNY seem to have a much greater degree of "control" in their eating. I can certainly use more control in my eating! So now I am seriously questioning my decision and and starting to re-think my plan. I need to decide before 1/31, as I have my appointment with the dietician who will give me a binder full of info and the info varies a bit depending on the type of surgery I choose.

I realize that RNY has been around much longer than the sleeve and that the sleeve was originally intended to just be the first step in duodenal switch surgeries for 500+ lb. patients. However, the re-routing of the intestine freaks me out quite a bit and I am afraid of nutritional deficiencies caused by the malabsorptive aspect of the RNY surgery.

Has anyone else originally planned to have VSG and wound up with RNY instead? Are you glad you did? Regretful that you did? I'd appreciate any and all comments. Thanks!