Can you share your experience with me?

How much does it cost, how long was your hospital stay, is it a lot more painful? Is it more complicated for the surgeon to perform? Will I have more acid reflux problems since the stomach will be smaller?

Thank you.

I had mini gastric bypass in Mexico through BariatricPal TeamMX with Dr. Illan on December 12th, 2016. It cost me $5400.00, which I think is determined on your weight, BMI, and maybe your medical history, but I'm not sure. I stayed in the hospital 3 days and 3 nights. I didn't really have too much pain. I had soreness and gas pains. The gas pains were worse than anything else but it got progressively better as I walked more and more. I walked for the first time a couple of hours after I got back to my hospital room after recovery from the surgery.

Dr. Illan is one of the best surgeons in Mexico. I watched my surgery video. Both him and the other two surgeons on his surgical staff handled the surgery with precision and great care. It did not seem like it was a more complicated surgery to perform. Your acid reflux problems should end after this surgery. I had acid reflux and LPRD (silent reflux) and I have had no problems. They give you omeprazole that lasts 14 days, I think. After I finished those, I started retaking one pantoprazole (Protonix) 40m caplet a day just for precaution, and until I go back to my ENT doctor to get scoped, to see if I still have LPRD. I'll probably wait 6 months before I do that. Both RNY and mini gastric bypass have been shown to get rid of acid reflux problems because of how things are rerouted.

For an over abundance of great info, go to YouTube and view Dr R Rutledge videos. He invented it. He has returned to doing MGB surgeries and reversals of other WLS to MGB. I started the MGB forum here and after years of research, I will be getting the MGB. THERE IS a list of surgeons I posted there. I will probably be going with Dr. Ponce de leon or dr verboonen due to their massive experience doing mgbs. Always important to ask how many MGBS the doc has performed. I would also ask who he learned from. Hopefully Dr. Rutledge.

Can you share your experience with me?
How much does it cost, how long was your hospital stay, is it a lot more painful? Is it more complicated for the surgeon to perform? Will I have more acid reflux problems since the stomach will be smaller?
Thank you.

I had the mini bypass on Feb 23 in Mexico and am down 28 pounds as of today I went from the Lap Band and the scar tissue from the revision is the only pain I felt-- I have had very little gas and not acid reflux at all -- $7200 is what I paid but so worth it -- in the states for the same surgery they wanted $14000