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how long is the Gastric Sleeve surgery ?

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.

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  • 3 weeks later...

About an hour...I don't really remember anything from that night though. I just remember them telling me the surgery should only take about an hour - 90 minutes and then waking up hours later with them trying to get me to drink.

Mine was 35 minutes, and an hour in the recovery room.

  • 3 weeks later...

Arrived at the hospital at 11 am... taken to the pre-op prep room at 11:30am... wheeled off to surgery 3pm... recovery some time around 7, in my room at 9pm. I had a Lap Band removal, Sleeve, and Hiatal Hernia repair.... total procedure time was about 4 hours from what I can recall.

Mine took 80 minutes total, including repairing a hiatal hernia.

Around 2.5 hours - had lots of scaring from the old lapband...but it was removed a while ago!

According to my surgeon, my gastric sleeve took about one hour with a liver biopsy as well.

  • 2 weeks later...

Only 90 minutes, just as foretold in all the hospital paperwork.

  • 4 weeks later...

Mine was a little over an hour. Hubby went to get my pain meds filled and was getting the call before he got back.

  • 1 month later...

It's so different for everyone. I had a sleeve with no other repair or procedure and was on the table, not including prep or recovery, for 40 minutes.

Had an outpatient band to sleeve revision (one step) and it took a little over an hour.

Mine was about 40 mins as well.

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