I had the Sleeve on Jan 8th 2013, Now due to Bile Reflux, I have to have the RYN. Please share you experiences on how recovery went, did you have drains? How Long in Hospital, how many cuts? Anything you can add, and PLEASE PLEASE don't Sugar Coat it....I want the cold hard truth.....Thanks

Nothing to sugarcoat, goldygirl, it was a breeze! Five small cuts, one in my bellybutton. No catheter, no drain. One nite in the hospital. No nausea, minimal pain. The two worst things for me were not being able to sleep in the hospital and not being able to drink anything from the day of surgery until the surgeon came to see me the next day. Major dry mouth! Good luck to you, and please let us know how you are doing. Hugs:-)

I had previously had gallbladder removal, and hysterectomy and there was no problem doing my RnY laprascopically. The only issue I had with recovery was some bad pain on the left side. This was from the incision where they went through muscle and did most of the hard work through. It hurt pretty good for about 10 day or so and then all of a sudden, one day it stopped and I felt like a new woman! Would do it again tomorrow! Good luck.

DLCoggin - Appendix removed, Gallbladder gone and now this? Half your insides are gone!!! LOL

Lol - and now thanks to the RnY almost half of the me that was left is gone!

Your start weight is same as mine and you are at weight lower than I am shooting for (185) so I have been following you.

So I will have Dr remove my Gallbladder and Appendices while they are in there!

Do you have a surgery date yet? You may have read in some of my other posts that I'm not a big fan of goal weights. My surgeon never offered one and I decided even before my surgery that my body would know when it was where it wanted to be. So I just kept following the protocol until my weight stabilized. I believe there are several advantages to this approach.

When you have a goal weight in mind, it increases your impatience and frustration with the time it takes to reach your goal. If you don't have a goal weight, you're not on any timeline - you won't know you're there until you're there. Much more conducive to focusing on the all-important lifestyle changes as opposed to some "magic" number.

WLS patients often experience a weight regain following their weight loss - commonly referred to as "bounce back". It can be as little as 10-15 pounds or, in some cases, considerably more. There can be a lot of reasons for it but, at least in my experience, if your body is at the weight it wants to be at, there's little or no bounce back. I stabilized at 155 and my weight this morning (13 months later) was 152.8. And that's after increasing my daily calorie goal following the stabilization of my weight. Initially by 300 calories. And most recently I increased it again by an additional 100 calories over what I was targeting during weight loss.

Finally, not having a specific goal weight takes at least some of the emphasis off of the number on the scales. That's a big deal. And one of the reasons I always recommend folks who are in the rapid weight loss part of the journey weigh themselves no more often than once a week. When you hit a stall, once every two weeks is even better. No matter what we do, our weight loss is going to fluctuate in response to too many variables to even identify, much less address. Downplaying the number on the scale and focusing your energy instead on staying positive, staying focused on following the protocol as closely to the letter as you possibly can, staying patient and maintaining a food log is a much more rewarding and much less stressful plan.

You're gonna love the new you!!

GREAT ADVICE!!! I will adhere to it and only jump on scale once a week.

My surgery is Dec 26th.

Thanks!!

This is going to be the best Christmas present you ever got! Congratulations and Merry Christmas!!