What heals faster rny or vsg?

[psyance 32]

I see wildly different timelines, and I’m just wondering if that has to do with different healing times based on surgery type (I understand it also has to do with individual Dr.s).

[Creekimp13 5,840]

Sleeve heals faster, hands down. Shorter surgery, too.

[catwoman7 11,221]

VSG is a quicker surgery (although my RNY only took an hour), but I don't know about recovery time. I would have assumed they'd be about the same, but I've never seen statistics on it, so who knows.

[catwoman7 11,221]

p.s. I wouldn't base my decision on that, by the way. You may have health issues that might make one more appropriate for you than the other. Your surgeon should discuss that with you. They're both excellent surgeries and I've come across a lot of people on these boards who've been successful with both.

[psyance 32]

No. I had an rny a few weeks ago. I was just curious.

[redhead_che 824]

My doc said in our seminar folks that have bypass should allow at least 2 week’s recovery and the sleeve patients should allow at least one week recovery.

I was sleeved and took my 3 weeks off since I had the hours saved up. No sense rushing the recovery.