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I'm here! Having my sleeve on Monday too! I'm at the hospital doing my pre-reg right now.

A little about me, i'm 24, married but separated now. I have 3 little ones and I've battled my weight my entire life. I am still on my husbands insurance and we separated about 2 months ago. I've been going through the approval process for my surgery since August of this year. I had 3 pre - op appointments with my pcp and a nutritionist visit, consutltations, i had to do a psych eval, and that was pretty much it. I just found out 4 weeks ago that I was approved, had my pre op with the surgeon on December 3rd and was there scheduled for surgery for December 30th. Im just so greatful i'm able to get this done before the end of the year (i've already met my deductiable for this year) and also before im off my ex's insurance lol.
Ready to start a new life for myself and my kids and be healthy and have the "smaller" girl in me make her grand entrance!
I'm currently about 370 and my goal weight is to be 170. We will see!

That's just crazy. People with bands can't even eat right.
I have not seen people not be successful with the sleeve who were banded first. Quite the opposite. I've seen people become successful sleeved who tried their best with the band but had nothing but problems with it, so they ate sliders and gained weight.
Once they had their bands removed, and knew what it felt like to get full on small portions of a variety of foods, they lost weight and wished they had heard about the sleeve first.

I agree. I can't do malabsorption - it nearly killed me due to loss of Iron and severe anemia that required 4 hour IV iron infusions 1-2x a week for four months. To take iron intravenously wrecks you.
I didn't want to EVER go through that again. Gastric sleeve is the only thing I would consider because problematic malabsorption doesn't really occur.
My surgeon (who was supposedly running a center of excellence) told me the band worked because of restriction not malabsorption. Then the awesome surgeon I saw to get the jaws of life out of me said "of course it's malabsorption." So the science behind the band was switched up in the middle of pushing the product?? Yep.
This time I have waited, read the medical journals. To me, gastric sleeve is the gold standard for sustained health. My mom had gastric bypass and I don't think her health is as robust as it used to be.
Just my 2 cents.

My surgeon wanted me to get the bypass, like my wife did. I heard the gold standard argument.
I am a surviving cancer dude. I did not want the malabsorption, I need all the nutrients I can get. What doc couldn't see was the fire in my heart to beat the crap out of fat. I had already determined to be an athlete for the rest of my life, not just temporarily get in shape.
So far the sleeve has been a perfect fit.

Thank you Gman I wish i wasn't getting so nervous but i guess i just don't know at this point. I need to stop listening to negative nellies i'm sure. I work in the medical field and word gets around so fast if you tell even one person what you are having done. I had a nurse who i didn't even know come up to me the other day and tell me about how the sleeve was just a passing phase like the lap-band and that the gold standard is the gastric. But if i wanna waste my money it's none of her business...WHAT? who is this lady?! anyway, thank you. I'm sure i'll be full of questions soon enough.