Just curious: I know all of us here are having gastric bypass, but what type of surgery is it? Open, laparoscopic or robotic?

I'm having robotic gastric bypass on the 22nd! It's only been this past week that I have realized that I may be a little bit more apprehensive about the pain after surgery than I thought I would be. My surgeon has said that robotic gastric bypass cuts the pain and healing time by 50%. Anyone else having this particular surgery done?

I had laparoscopic GB with no complications, I was back to work in one week. The pain was minimal after about 3 days. I am a big baby when it comes to pain. I was on a morphine pump for the first 2.5 days then they took it away and I was OK with it. I moved around a lot, walked and rested when I needed to.

I never heard of robotic ?? what is the difference between laparoscopic and robotic?

You might find this study, http://www.sages.org/meetings/annual-meeting/abstracts-archive/robotic-gastric-bypass-the-future-of-bariatric-surgery/ , published by the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons of interest. In terms of safety and effectiveness, the results of laparoscopic vs. robotic surgeries are quite similar.

Thank you for the article, I will check it out.

Robotic surgery (as my surgeon has explained) is similar to laparoscopic. The main difference is the surgeon is actually about 5 feet away on a console (it looks like a video game system no joke!) and he is performing surgery that way. The robot has about 6 or 7 different arms. All are 360 degrees rotatable, smaller movements and smaller incisions. The system that he uses is the DaVinci SI. If you type in "DaVinci SI robot" on youtube, there is a 2 min video that gives you a briefing on what it is. It's pretty insane!

Just curious: I know all of us here are having gastric bypass, but what type of surgery is it? Open, laparoscopic or robotic?

I'm having robotic gastric bypass on the 22nd! It's only been this past week that I have realized that I may be a little bit more apprehensive about the pain after surgery than I thought I would be. My surgeon has said that robotic gastric bypass cuts the pain and healing time by 50%. Anyone else having this particular surgery done?

Hi i had robotic laproscopisc surgery to remove a 6 cm mass , this april 2013. It is interesting because surgeon is using a controller like we use for nintendo or playstation games. he does better than hands on surgery because he has a carmera with magnification(zoom). he sees more and can do same work with less cutting and invasive cutting to your muscles. which is less pain. gas after surgery is the only thing that may bother you. you will have 5 small really small insicions. mine were glued and healed relativly fast. i hope i was a help and if you need anything let me know.

Thank you for your response!! I appreciate it!