Important pre-surgery questions to ask

[Justinh125 472]

Someone in another conversation asked me this, and I thought I'd just throw it out there for anyone in the pre-op stage. Remember, this is a surgery that a surgery that will permanently change one of the most important things we do as living beings (fueling up so we can provide nutrients to our organs to stay alive.) If you have this surgery, your life will never be the same, so I think it's entirely reasonable and normal to have questions, and I'd be suspicious of a surgeon that doesn't want to answer questions.

This is not a small or trivial thing, and your surgeon and his/her team will presumably be well compensated either by you or your insurance or some combination of both. So as far as I am/was concerned, they owe it to you to answer all the questions you have for as long as you want.

I would suggest asking about things like the pre-op diet, the typical results for that surgeon, the percentage of patients that have any complications of any kind at all, what kind of post-op care is included with the cost of surgery, typical recovery time, what size "bougie" the anesthesiologist uses, and what kind of diet they expect you to follow post-op...

As my mother always reminds me, "it never hurts to ask."

[RJ'S/beginning 5,358]

One of the first questions I asked my surgeon was " Why did you pick this kind of surgery as your choice for life?"

I was very satisfied with the answer as we all know how heavy people can be treated by medical staff....

If their heart is not in it...Then he would not have put his scalpel in me! And that's a fact!!!!!!!!!!

[MySleeveJourney 9]

One of the first questions I asked my surgeon was " Why did you pick this kind of surgery as your choice for life?"

I was very satisfied with the answer as we all know how heavy people can be treated by medical staff....

If their heart is not in it...Then he would not have put his scalpel in me! And that's a fact!!!!!!!!!!

I asked the same question. My doctor is a Lap-Band patient! It was great to talk to someone who has actually gone through a WLS.