Hello!
I just had my second office appointment after my endoscopy and my surgeon told me since my hiatal hernia is large, he would have to do that surgery first and then a couple of months later he would do the gastric bypass surgery.
I was expecting to do both at the same time and now this changes a lot due to time off, healing, etc. I was just wondering if anyone else has had two separate surgeries in their process and how it went? How long did you wait to have the actual gastric surgery? How was HH recovery vs the Gastric? Any information would be greatly appreciated!

thank you!!

I had my VSG on March 1, 2023. My surgeon repaired my hiatal hernia during my VSG surgery.

Everyone’s surgon is different.
If yours is large then maybe he does need to do them at different times.
My HH surgery was years ago & the recovery was pretty easy.

When I had my GB my esophagus was it an L-shaped.

I’m retired, the surgery itself was pretty easy. It’s getting your body used to your new stomach and your new way of eating. You are going to be weak for about a week to 10 days afterwards because your body is just gone through major change.

My HH was large and had to wait an additional 6 months for all the meds to heal up the GERD sores and they kept checking for cancer. In the end I waited 8 months for healing before the double surgery of HH repair and RNY. If they had had a better picture, my surgeon said he would have separated it. The HH was up into my larynx. My recovery time seemed to be longer. I stayed in the liquid and all stages 3-4 weeks each due to the throat soreness.My surgery time total was 7 hours. And I accept that it’s not perfect. There’s still 1cm HH and some light GERD but I’m so grateful for being able to sing again. I stay on top of it with Omeprazole.

I used the long wait to have surgery as a super weight loss time that RNY “locked” into place. That 73 initial loss isn’t coming back!