How long did your surgery take? My mother asked the PA and she said about 3 hours. I'm guessing that's worst case scenario, cause I keep reading different amounts of time.

Hubby said surgery took about 45 minutes. I was in recover for an hour and a half. He had a nice, long wait. I don't remember a thing!

Mine was less than an hour

I had my surgery on Wednesday - my husband said the doctor was out to talk to him in about 45 minutes.

My surgery was 1-1/2 hours, due to band embedding into stomach tissue and gall bladder removal. Pretty fast, I thought!!

My doctor told my husband about 2 hours but I am clueless.

My sleeve was about a hour and a half, my dr said he had to separate some muscles in my esophagus so it wouldn't be to narrow

My surgery went on for about 45minutes but for the rest of the day I did nothing but sleeping!

Had mine on 3/21/16 my husband said it was just under an hour.

1.5 hours for me

Mine was less than 1 hour for the surgery. I was in recovery for another hour.

Operating time for me was about 45 minutes. I was stable under anesthesia, have had no prior abdominal surgeries so no scar tissue to maneuver through, and carry most of my weight in my butt, hips and thighs--so of my 245 lbs starting, my abdomen was not the fattiest part of me. That said, they didn't come to get my husband for about three hours or so.

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Mine took a little longer than he anticipated because I had a ton of scar tissue from my band that was being removed. I think 2 hours total. I was so excited and relieved when I woke up enough to discover that my doctor HAD been able to do the conversation even with so much scar tissue. As a result, however I have a VERY small pouch. I'm not going to complain though, this is what I have been dreaming about! Anyone else sleeved in Jacksonville Florida this April?

Surgery for me was about an hour and a half. My surgeon had me on a pre op diet primarily to shrink my liver to make the surgery easier. I did well enough with that and my liver shrank so much he was able to do the surgery without needing to move it. So that was one less incision.

I ended up being in observation for about six hours because they didn't have my room ready in recovery. I didn't end up getting out of bed to take my first walk on day one until about midnight, and had to get up again at around 4 am for vitals and to walk again.

Mine was a little over an hour. I also had a hiatal hernia repaired which I understand is pretty common.

My doctor said about 1-1.5 hours... maybe your doctor is including prep and recovery room time.