Hello there,

My surgery date is March 16. Today, I met with the surgeon for the final time before surgery date. I know that the doctors have to talk about all the risk of surgery, but I was somewhat shocked when he told me that I could come out of surgery with a bypass or m entire stomach removed if complication arose. I prepared to have the surgery but this was the first time I heard of this possibility. Wondering if anyone within this forum has experienced anything like this? A switcheroo...

Thanks for sharing

I went in for the sleeve and came out with a sleeve, but we all have to sign that release unless we want the surgeon to just close you up and do nothing if he or she finds that they can't do the surgery that is planned.

I have seen it happen at least once on My 600 Pound Life. It happened recently with a guy who went in for bypass. If I remember correctly because of the fat and shape of his abdomen Dr. Now wouldn't have been able to get the connection to the shortened intestine to connect so he wound up doing a sleeve.

I also seem to recall seeing where someone has too much scar tissue from previous surgeries, so hectored on cleaning up the scar tissue and then waited until that healed before completing the surgery.

I thought of it like when I get the engine on my car worked on: they really don't know what they are going to find until they actually go into the engine.