Hello! I'm new here. I just got a tentative surgery date of September 29th. I originally planned on getting the gastric bypass but after meeting with my surgeon he recommended the sleeve and thought I could be as successful getting that done. He said doing the gastric could be a bit of overkill. I'm 29 years old, 6'1 and 315 lbs. So I was wondering what helped you decided to do the sleeve over the gastric bypass. Thanks!

I am a revision from the lap band. I chose sleeve because I didn't want to have my intestines rerouted and I already have malabsorption problems from Celiac disease. I didn't want to exacerbate them.

The doctors suggested the bypass for me but I decided on the sleeve because I dont feel comfortable with the whole rerouting of the intestines thing and the doctor complied. Im 5"9 290 and I feel the sleeve will be perfect for me. I will be done with all requirements next month! Cant wait to get approved

Same for me. I probably should have done WLS years ago but the malabsorption with bypass made me nervous. So sleeve it is

Totally agree :-). For me, the side effects from malabsorption (esp impact on teeth) stressed me out so I thought the sleeve sounded like a better option. But I have heard weight loss is faster with bypass & most websites seem to imply that the chance of keeping the weight off in the long term is higher with bypass vs sleeve?

Hockeyfan7

Did you have any issues after getting sleeved because of your celiac disease? I'm just curious because I also have celiac disease