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.

If he sees something more than likely he'll repair it while he's there. They didn't catch my dad's hernia and repaired it while they performed his bypass. The main symptom of hiatal hernia's are reflux or heartburn.

I see. . Thanks

This brings me to my other post on a different thread. The only testing I had done was an EKG, chest xr, and bloodwork. I didn't have an endoscopy, or ultrasound or cat scan... What if he sees something while he in there?? Are there signs/symptoms of a hernia?

Different doctors have different protocols. I didn't have a EDG , but I did have chest xray and an upper GI.

I was out of my room for 2 1/2 hours, but the actually surgical time was like 45 min. The rest was chatting with the anesthesiologist, induction, surgical prep, closing incisions, and recovery.

Mine was about 45mins....

5 1/2 hours!! No, I didn't die and was brought back. I had lots of scar tissue from four previous surgeries. She had to remove all or I guess a lot before she could begin. So, as you can see every situation is different.

Anesthesiologist told me yesterday that it typically takes my surgeon around an hour, but since i'm having two hernias repaired, it would be 2-2.5 hours.

My actual surgery was 45 min (sleeve only) and an hour in recovery

My Dr. said to expect an hour for surgery time, but much longer for the whole shebang with recovery time.

My surgeron told me a little over an hour but when we got to the hospital they told my family three hours with recovery time included. That ended up being about right. I believe my actual time in surgery was 90 minutes. Good luck on your surgery next week!

Not sure how long mine was but I am guessing over 2 hours. He had to remove the lapband and repair the hiatal hernia.

Mine was 25 minutes. My surgeon has done over 6500 sleeves!

Are you factoring in the time spent pre-op waiting around as part of the time? I don't know how long the actual surgery was (and I went in by myself, so no one was around to tell me how long they waited), but I spent about 45 minutes in the staging area before they put the IV in me and wheeled me into the actual OR. I think the actual surgery was a couple hours. Then post surgery, I had to wait another hour in recovery until a room was free for me.

The process is approximately 3hrs

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Yeah I got the impression the actual surgery typically only takes around an hour to an hour and a half and then the rest is all pre-surgery and recovery stuff. You're not sent to your room for several hours.