I have real problem with GERD thinking I should get the bypass instead of the sleeve. Anyone here have or had problems with GERD before or after?

My bypass was done because of GERD and hiatal hernia that had to be repaired. The Dr said I wasn’t a good candidate for the Nissen because of the likelihood of having to be redone and didn’t present the sleeve or band as real options due to making GERD worse.

It was actually very interesting to find that gastric bypass was developed over 50 years ago as a cure for reflux. Only after did they start realizing how much weight patients lost and it became a weight loss surgery primarily, but my surgeon said that about 50% of the cases in his office (huge Britain clinic at Stanford hospital) are due to something other than weight loss.

Wow that is interesting, I didn’t know that.

I was sleeved August 2016 and the reflux is so bad now that I have it all the time. It can just come at you like a bus and there is no relief. I just had a gastroscopy and numerous other test for stomach PH including being continually X-ray whilst laying down after eating radioactive porridge... GERD suffers worst nightmare.. porridge and laying flat - for 90- mins!! I have had a lot of acid damage done to my oesophagus with limited relief. The drugs barely help me. So off to see the surgeon again Jan 2 and looks like I will have to convert to RNY. I do not want to do this. However the sleeve did nothing for me. Did not lose a Kilo...I had converted from the lapband to sleeve and I think I could eat more once the band was out as it just made me so sick. So here I am again... almost at Step 1. Has anyone converted from band to sleeve then onto bypass? I am interested to know what the weight loss is like? I do want my gerd fixed, but dammit, I want this weight gone too :-0 Any advise is helpful.... I just feel so sorry for my poor stomach :-(

I was sleeved in 2012, developed severe GERD along with erosion of the esophagus. My total weight loss from sleeve was 55 pounds. My sleeve was converted to RNY on Dec 6th and as of today I no longer suffer with acid reflux and have lost 25 pounds.. So far so good.....

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