RNY vs Sleeve

[nursingstudent16 0]

Hi everyone! My name is michelle. I started my journey in September. I have been so torn between the rny and sleeve. I looked into rny first then saw the sleeve and ever since then did not know which to pick. I love the research behind rny but I love the sleeves not so scary complications. My aunt had rny maybe 5-6 years ago and I know she had a lot of complications which makes me nervous and where I'm so young I'm so afraid I will deal with a lot of complications. I guess I just read way too many things. Anyways my surgeon is amazing at rny he has sooo many successful patients with it with minimal complications. I guess I just need some guidance in choosing. Help!

[kparadisek 115]

Welcome! I'm a revision band to bypass. I tried the band first because I was afraid of the bypass even though my mom had the bypass 21 years ago. I'm now loving my bypass and wish I would have chosen it the first go around. My Doctor recommended the sleeve (which has provided individuals with great results) but I've seen where people do the sleeve to bypass revision so I opted for the bypass because I didn't want to risk needing another revision. Both procedures have their risk but you must think positive. Good luck with your decision! Make are you choose the one you want and not the one others tell you to get. Keep us posted.

[BBdoodle 483]

The reason why I chose the RNY is because you lose the most the most weight with RNY. If I was going to have ANY type of surgery I wanted to get the best bang for my buck. I had no complications what so ever and was back to work in 1 week

[nursingstudent16 0]

Well I'm nervous where I'm so young it won't be forever ya know ? Like obviously you have up keep it up after you lose weight but I'm so worried about stretching I know some people who have gained back a lot of weight :/