Has anyone had this done? What's the pros and cons of it over lapriscopic? My surgeon decided to leave the practice and now ill be seeing the other surgeon (which things happen for a reason) and he does both lap and open but prefers to do open. He's pretty honest and reather do open so, that's what I'm thinking of going with, partly because he sutures and they disolve with open instead of staples being in my body forever with lap. I just wanna hear if anyone has any thoughts on this. I know its one long cut (which I'm ok with) instead of 4-6 different little cuts. Anyways just curious because surgery is going to be in april and wanna decide before this on what may be better. I am definitely leaning towards the open though, also what's the down time for both?

All I can say is I'm about five weeks out and three of my incisions are barley visible. The other two are pretty small and I had two surgeries. I had a stricture. I think the big difference for me was only having small internal muscle openings. I could not imagine one as big as you would need for open. Its amazing how much you us your stomach. Good luck to you.

Faster, safer recovery time with lap.