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RNY vs. VSG... Feeling RNY pushed to VSG

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swinglifeaway    64

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Hello! Good morning. I truly feel like the RNY is the right surgery for me. I've done so much research and am confident in my decision. My center is pushing the Sleeve, though. One of the reasons is because of my age. I am 29. I will be nearly 30 when I have the surgery. I know there are many others my age that have had the bypass. My doctor has said that I'm healthy enough for bypass, but that he recommends all of his younger patients to have the less invasive surgery. Did anyone go against their surgeon's recommendation to have bypass?

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Pinkgirl1234    761

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Go RNY.I had the band and suffered for years.Just recently had a revision to RNY.my decision...my doctor was curious and asked me how I decided.I told him....this is it...the gold standard and I am not looking for surgery no.3.The bypass has been wonderful.Absolutely no complications whatsoever.I feel great.

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swinglifeaway    64

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Go RNY.I had the band and suffered for years.Just recently had a revision to RNY.my decision...my doctor was curious and asked me how I decided.I told him....this is it...the gold standard and I am not looking for surgery no.3.The bypass has been wonderful.Absolutely no complications whatsoever.I feel great.

Thanks for your response! I'm glad you've had great results with RNY. [emoji1]

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Hello! Good morning. I truly feel like the RNY is the right surgery for me. I've done so much research and am confident in my decision. My center is pushing the Sleeve, though. One of the reasons is because of my age. I am 29. I will be nearly 30 when I have the surgery. I know there are many others my age that have had the bypass. My doctor has said that I'm healthy enough for bypass, but that he recommends all of his younger patients to have the less invasive surgery. Did anyone go against their surgeon's recommendation to have bypass?

I was one who chose adversely to the sleeve which my surgeon recommended at our initial consultation. He did so due to my age as well and based off of him not knowing a few details about me. But I did research and also have a mother who had the bypass over 15 years ago and was and has still been successful with it. I chose it bc I love sweets and feel the need to have them often. I also didn't really eat alot before I just ate the wrong things bc that's kinda how I was brought up, eating more of the yummy ribs, baked mac'n'cheese, cubed steak and things rather than healthy. The RNY has one of the best features for that which is the dumping syndrome. So I have not choice now but to ear right or I will get extremely sick. I believe the sleeve can have that effect too but no other like the RNY. I forgot to mention after my surgeon suggested the sleeve, I had blood work done and they determined I was .5 away from being diabetic (my A1C was 6.0) and only the RNY cures diabetes.

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Hello! Good morning. I truly feel like the RNY is the right surgery for me. I've done so much research and am confident in my decision. My center is pushing the Sleeve, though. One of the reasons is because of my age. I am 29. I will be nearly 30 when I have the surgery. I know there are many others my age that have had the bypass. My doctor has said that I'm healthy enough for bypass, but that he recommends all of his younger patients to have the less invasive surgery. Did anyone go against their surgeon's recommendation to have bypass?

I was one who chose adversely to the sleeve which my surgeon recommended at our initial consultation. He did so due to my age as well and based off of him not knowing a few details about me. But I did research and also have a mother who had the bypass over 15 years ago and was and has still been successful with it. I chose it bc I love sweets and feel the need to have them often. I also didn't really eat alot before I just ate the wrong things bc that's kinda how I was brought up, eating more of the yummy ribs, baked mac'n'cheese, cubed steak and things rather than healthy. The RNY has one of the best features for that which is the dumping syndrome. So I have not choice now but to ear right or I will get extremely sick. I believe the sleeve can have that effect too but no other like the RNY. I forgot to mention after my surgeon suggested the sleeve, I had blood work done and they determined I was .5 away from being diabetic (my A1C was 6.0) and only the RNY cures diabetes.

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Pinkgirl1234    761

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Baconsher are you ok?Did you get the Sleeve?

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Thecloude1    342

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I had RNY 4 months ago...unfortunately I do not dump from eating sweets ....I haven't had ice cream, cake, doughnuts etc but I have eaten small amounts of chocolate and hard candy without any ill affects . It is what it is and I need to learn to deal with it in order to be successful...I have lost 55 lbs since surgery and 85lbs total [emoji2]. Slow and steady wins the race!

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