If you could....

[DoOver 17]

I not only researched to death I waited an extra year for my insurance to cover the sleeve. I wish I hadn't had to wait but I'm very glad I did. Luckily I used some of that time to drop from close to 330 to somewhere near 300 for the surgery.

I'm one of those rare "doesn't happen" people who experiences dumping. I've had a sweet thing 3 times in 6 months and they darned near killed me. shakes, sweats, just overall ready to vomit feeling for about 2 hours. I can't imagine how bad it would have been with r-n-y. Thankfully, I don't have much of an issue with sweets so I can work around it. But once that happened the first time on a relatively small amount of sugar, I absolutely knew I'd have been a major dumper with bypass and having dropped from busting out of a size 26W last October, to surgery in early April to a loose size 18W today...yes, I am very happy with my choice!

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,281]

If you could go back and have a different type of WLS, would you? Do you wish you would have done the DS or the RNY??

Lap Band: Yes (obvious, as I did go back and do a different surgery).

Sleeve: No.

I have no desire to revise to any other WLS any further at this point. Depends on how my health is doing in the future. As for now, me and my sleeve are doing quite well together.

[mnbsleeve 87]

It's all been said above. I love my sleeve. No regrets. Sooooooo happy!!!!!

[RickM 1,747]

So far, so good, and no regrets. I won't know for several years (hopefully) whether the DS with its better regain resistance would have been a better choice, but all indications pre-op and so far post-op (75+% to goal in about 4 1/2 months) were that the VSG was the way to go for me.

[M2G 1,836]

No chance at all that I would have switched my surgery...I'm happy with my sleeve. I did all my research and felt 100% confident that the sleeve was the right choice for me.

[feedyoureye 3,087]

I love my sleeve, I would only consider getting something else if I gain all the weight back that I lost on the sleeve... unlikely.

[swizzly 901]

Never. When I heard about VSG, it was like meeting The One. It just felt right and I could never bring myself to do one of the other surgeries though I researched them for years. I would do the VSG again, 100%.

[GreginMI 76]

I've lost 82 lbs in about 4 months and I feel GREAT! I have only 53 lbs to goal of 185. This was the best decision I have EVER made for myself. Would do it again in a heartbeat! I am so glad my surgeon recommended this to me instead of RNY because I was going to do whatever he felt best. He said "I think the sleeve would be best for you" and I said "okay then". After I researched it I knew it was the right decision!