Anyone have an open surgery and not laporscopic?

[Mel1976 47]

I am just wondering if any of you went in for laroscopic and it ended up being open. My doctor is of course going to try not to open, but just curious. If you had open, did you have complications? What was the healing time?

[Shells_Almost_There 357]

You will probably hear from someone who either ended up having an open surgery or who knows someone who had open due to adhesions on the stomach. I haven't heard of any yet for the sleeve, although a couple years ago I went to a RnY information session and they seemed to convert to open procedure much more often. In fact, I was told to lose 75 pounds if I wanted a laparoscopic RnY - to which I laughed because if I could have lost 75 pounds that easily, I wouldn't be needing surgery! I was sleeved in September and it was the best decision ever. I have 4 small incisions and 1 slightly larger one where the stomach came out.

Is there a specific reason (previous stomach surgery, etc) that you or your doc are thinking your surgery will be converted to open? Medical technology is amazing these days! Good luck

Edited November 5, 2013 by Shells_Almost_There

[Mel1976 47]

You will probably hear from someone who either ended up having an open surgery or who knows someone who had open due to adhesions on the stomach. I haven't heard of any yet for the sleeve' date=' although a couple years ago I went to a RnY information session and they seemed to convert to open procedure much more often. In fact, I was told to lose 75 pounds if I wanted a laparoscopic RnY - to which I laughed because if I could have lost 75 pounds that easily, I wouldn't be needing surgery! I was sleeved in September and it was the best decision ever. I have 4 small incisions and 1 slightly larger one where the stomach came out.

Is there a specific reason (previous stomach surgery, etc) that you or your doc are thinking your surgery will be converted to open? Medical technology is amazing these days! Good luck[/quote']

I have had several surgeries laproscopically so I don't think it will, but I was just wondering. I have lost 35lbs and my surgery is scheduled for 11/19. my doctor was like...lets scheduled it for December so you can lose more, but hy the time I have surgery on 11/19 I will have already been on the liquid diet for 7 weeks. I don't think I could take 3 additional weeks.

[acubi2 33]

My doctor had to add an incision to get a better view for my surgery.