So I had my consultation with my bariatric surgeon yesterday, and he wants me to get gastric bypass. His reasoning is that the sleeve doesn't help gerd which I have and in fact makes it worse. I am terrified if bypass, yet I have prepared for 2 years for the sleeve. I feel so disappointed. I understand his reasoning, but i am still terrified.

Thank you everyone for the feedback. I will be going ahead with the bypass. I am slowly coming around to the idea. My GERD is quite severe' date=' and no acid medication has alleviated my pain. I just received my date for Halloween and am so excited! I still have more research to do, but things are going great. Thank you all again, you made some great valid points![/quote']

I had to do bypass also severe reflux.

I don't think your going to get a different opinion from a different doctor. Honestly, that is a medical reason.....a real reason to choose bypass over the sleeve. Sorry You'll do great though. My husband had the bypass in 2004 and he is doing great.

Thank you everyone for the feedback. I will be going ahead with the bypass. I am slowly coming around to the idea. My GERD is quite severe' date=' and no acid medication has alleviated my pain. I just received my date for Halloween and am so excited! I still have more research to do, but things are going great. Thank you all again, you made some great valid points![/quote']

I'm doing good w/ my bypass glad I done it reflux is almost gone.

I had a pretty severe case of gerd which is being managed by nexium. It has not nearly as bad as it was before I was sleeved and have lost weight. However, each person is different.

You seem to be at peace with the bypass now, but like another poster mentioned, the severe reflux could be caused by a hiatal hernia. My manometry results came back borderline and the follow up Upper GI revealed I have a small-medium hiatal hernia. If yours is larger it could cause severe issues. My Dr said it's a simple repair he will do while he's in there for the sleeve and it should resolve nearly all of my acid reflux issues. He mentioned that they do tons of repairs of hernias during sleeve surgery and most people just don't realize they have them. Just another idea to consult with your Dr about if you still want to do the sleeve.

I had pretty bad GERD before my surgery but it had only come with my weight so surgeon and I hoped it would disappear with weight loss. Straight after surgery I was so much better that I was able to drop from 40 to 20mg Nexium.

Around 4 months out and 22kg lighter (2/3 of my total excess weight) it started getting worse. I am currently taking 80mg Nexium with poor control of symptoms - very painful and affecting my oesophagus, throat and Eustachian tubes (ears!). Seeing the surgeon tomorrow and hoping he has some "magic" suggestions.

I also wanted the simplest possible procedure and am not at all keen on bypass, but I know there can be serious health consequences if my dr and I can't get these symptoms under control.

Knowing that a bypass revision is always possible, is it worth talking to your dr to see about doing the sleeve in the hope that you are amongst the lucky ones whose GERD is not made worse by the sleeve? It would be nice to keep it simple if you could - ongoing need for vitamin/mineral supplementation is something I'm keen to avoid.