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My doctor wants to perform a sleeve. I would prefer a bypass due to my eating history and desire to succeed and make it last. I dont want to go back later and have to have the bypass if I have already done a sleeve. Please advice me, not really sure what to say or do at this point. I want surgery even if it's just the sleeve. Will it work? Is it a ploy to get revision money later? [emoji15]

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It’s your surgery, it’s your choice

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Abbreviated in Bariatric Land as YMYC. Another one for the lists 2 BARI-Buds are compounding. At any rate, there are 2 schools of thought on which is better in the long run for people. Know what I am planning, know what 2. other classes of Bari-seekers and currently,no one,i know personally,are planning a lapbad. Did know of one, the local surgeon who was doing Bariatrics as well as General Surgery, had someone die,on her table, not sure which variety of surgery was being performed but since this is only a community hospital with small-town, small-minded values she left,town in disgrace. She had done an proceedure on me in 2012, I liked her personally and had no qualms about her abilities, she did right by me. And of course this is all I do know, tried to explore the rumor, but "wagons are being circled" nobody claims to know anything and I got a stiff "SHE is no longer with US" for my troubles. They had started with lap-bands and Sleeves here locally,Thanksgiving 2017, although some were completed the program is shut down for a year, possibly into 2020 when they complete a Family Health center annex to my community's hospital and they expand to more than 3 G .Surgeons, certainly no one remaining are touching bari- patients MMNNM( short for Makes Me No Never Mind) I was going to Columbus in the first place, my body requires an RnY to make me All Better, and I KNEW it would not be offered here, if ever.
So that is our" Little Tempest in a Teapot" in my little town, and as Pual Simon so musically stated " nothing but,this Dead and Dying in my little town. A crying shame,because this is a pretty🌱🌷🌱🌻🌱 green lovely section of MidAmerica.

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On 7/31/2018 at 11:34 AM, miwi said:

My doctor wants to perform a sleeve. I would prefer a bypass due to my eating history and desire to succeed and make it last. I dont want to go back later and have to have the bypass if I have already done a sleeve. Please advice me, not really sure what to say or do at this point. I want surgery even if it's just the sleeve. Will it work? Is it a ploy to get revision money later?

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Push for what you want

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If you want the bypass, push for the bypass. A good surgeon will want you to be informed on your choices, but then respect your decision.

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