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My doctor said about 1-1.5 hours... maybe your doctor is including prep and recovery room time.

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About an hour...I don't really remember anything from that night though. I just remember them telling me the surgery should only take about an hour - 90 minutes and then waking up hours later with them trying to get me to drink.

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Mine was 35 minutes, and an hour in the recovery room.

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Arrived at the hospital at 11 am... taken to the pre-op prep room at 11:30am... wheeled off to surgery 3pm... recovery some time around 7, in my room at 9pm. I had a Lap Band removal, Sleeve, and Hiatal Hernia repair.... total procedure time was about 4 hours from what I can recall.

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Mine took 80 minutes total, including repairing a hiatal hernia.

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Around 2.5 hours - had lots of scaring from the old lapband...but it was removed a while ago!

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According to my surgeon, my gastric sleeve took about one hour with a liver biopsy as well.

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Only 90 minutes, just as foretold in all the hospital paperwork.

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Mine was a little over an hour. Hubby went to get my pain meds filled and was getting the call before he got back.

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It's so different for everyone. I had a sleeve with no other repair or procedure and was on the table, not including prep or recovery, for 40 minutes.

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Had an outpatient band to sleeve revision (one step) and it took a little over an hour.

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