Hi!

I am sure this has been mentioned on this board, but I'd like to know the difference between the two? Is the one procedure better than VSG?

Thank you and happy Friday!

Wishing to be thin soon,

Pinkbetty

If you go to http://www.successfullyslimmer.com/ it has everything about any of the procedures performed in Mexico hospital/clinic including prices, pictures, and cosmetic surgery's as well! It's a great reference! I was going to have the plication sleeve but changed my mind and am having the vertical sleeve instead, because, they are a lot alike, except with the vsg they remove the part of your stomach that produces the chemical called ghrelin, which is what causes hunger pain, which is what got me in this mess to begin with..so rather then take a chance of still having hunger pains and stretching out my new stomach, I decided to just have it removed. I'm leaving for San Diego tomorrow, and my surgery is on Mon, April 4th!!!!!!

Best of luck to you.

Great! Thank you! Good luck in TJ! My thoughts are with you! You will be HOT by this summer. Whoo hoo!!

I was SET on the sleeve until I saw this new tidbit on that site! Ahh, choices choices.. Back to the drawing board.

"overall weight loss was considered satisfactory in 78.6% of the patients who underwent gastric plication and in 97.5% of those who underwent sleeve" See link below for source:

http://www.skrekas.net/surg_hemstatistics.htm

Sadly I appear to be part of the 22.4% not having satisfactory weight loss. I wasn't aware of this stat when I made my decision. I feel just as hungry as I did before, so choose carefully.

Whoa. I am so sorry to hear that. Thank you SO very much for sharing that. Maybe it will change for you soon and you'll stop feeling hungry??

Hang in there and best of luck to you.

I never say one is better. But, I am highly biased towards the sleeve. I've had the band, I know what it's like to have the stretchy part of the stomach remain behind, I know the hunger that I was left with. With the sleeve, the newer stats coming out are showing very close results with weight loss numbers vs. RNY without the malabsorption.

For me, I would not want the pleating of the stomach tissue. Especially after the damage the band did to my stomach. I've read on obesityhelp similar situations to TJPlications concerns with little weight loss, and still able to eat more than what was expected. Along with the complications of necrosis and stomach tissue slipping through the sutures, just make sure you research as much as you can. There's a couple of others on OH looking for revisions from plication to the VSG because they just aren't getting the results they expected.

Just like with any surgery choice, THINK TWICE, CUT ONCE.