I think I'm beginning to realize that with having VSG surgery, most of my stomach will be GONE FOREVER! This choice is seriously permanent, and I'm trying fathom this. This a God given major organ that I'm going to have removed. Did anybody else feel this way? How did you rationalize this? Help folk! (From what I've read here and spoken to others they're pretty happy with their choice).

Only 85% of it; you'll still enough left over that matters

Sometimes I think about the fact that we evolved this way for a reason, but then again, large evolutionary changes can take hundreds of thousands of years, and as our technologies and ways of life have changed (especially post Industrial Revolution and post WWII), our bodies haven't had time to catch up evolutionarily. The surgery is a way of helping our bodies cope with a culture that they aren't really prepared for from a biological point of view.

I know a whole family of people who were genetically predisposed to a certain, very fatal form of stomach cancer. Since there was no way to test to see who had the gene that caused it, they all got their entire stomachs removed. That was 20 years ago, and as far as I know they're all still alive and extremely healthy.

You guys both bring up good points. I need views like this so I can internalize and be ok with this scenario. Thanks

One other thought - with plastic surgery, people loose a lot of unecessary skin (which is also an organ). Just think of the 85% of the stomach as not only unecessary, but counterproductive.

I agree with this. I guess it's also because I'm a former bandster (removed 4/30), and that was removable. I have to get off the band mindset and get on this sleeved train :-)

This is the one aspect of it all that overwhelms me a bit. But then I offset it with the thought that I do want permanent changes.

I agree with this. I guess it's also because I'm a former bandster (removed 4/30), and that was removable. I have to get off the band mindset and get on this sleeved train :-)

I am also a band to sleeve revision. When I got the band in 2009, that was a selling point - that it was reversible. But, as I started to lose weight, I wanted it to be permanent, not temporarily. Why would u want something temporarily?

I thought the same thing. God put this organ in my body for a reason and would I regret losing most of it? Not yet. I'm 10 mths out and don't regret it for a second. 15% is all u really need.

Good luck!

I agree with this. I guess it's also because I'm a former bandster (removed 4/30), and that was removable. I have to get off the band mindset and get on this sleeved train :-)

I am also a band to sleeve revision. When I got the band in 2009, that was a selling point - that it was reversible. But, as I started to lose weight, I wanted it to be permanent, not temporarily. Why would u want something temporarily?

I thought the same thing. God put this organ in my body for a reason and would I regret losing most of it? Not yet. I'm 10 mths out and don't regret it for a second. 15% is all u really need.

Good luck!

I'm not a religious person, but you know what they say: "If thy right hand offends thee, cut it off."

...Or something like that, haha. Only in our case it's the stomach.

LMBO!!!!! Yes that's bible, and I got it. You may not be "religious" but The Lord just used you! Hahahahaha! That's one way to look at it! :-)

I am 5 days post op and I struggled with the what about down the road question and all in all I knew I can't invent trouble. I did know the dangers of down the road at almost 300 lbs and that road was looking short and miserable so I did what I felt I needed to do I got the sleeve and am now working on my second Chance.

People have god given appendixes, gallbladders, uteruses and cancerous kidneys, lungs, colons and other organs removed all the time. For us, this is just one other "amputation" to help us be healthier. Yes, it is a scary, permanant thing that shouldn't be taken lightly. I had a serious meltdown over it 2 days before surgery, but went through with it anyways and now feel great.

Hmmmm it NEVER crossed my mind!! My mindset was I still have a stomach just not as big. I am also band to sleeve and the REVERSIBLE sold me!! Im praying for great success in my health and weightloss! I am almost 8 weeks and I have lost 25 pounds went from size 16 to a 14 and have no complications, been normal since i came home on day 2...so far im loving my sleeve....goodluck