Hello all 🫶

I am currently working on getting a gastric bypass done overseas, and have been talking to the surgeon through my mom, he asked if I eat a lot of sweets. Apparently, there is a different method of gastric bypass for people that eat a lot of sweets? Is that even a thing? lol

Are there different methods of doing gastric bypass? I did ask if the gastric bypass is reversible, just in case there are complications (may a higher power forbid it).

I try not to drink my calories, and typically I don’t eat a lot of sweets. I’m a bread, meat and potatoes girl, but since learning I was diabetic in March of 2024 I have even been limiting bread & potatoes. I lowered my A1C from 11.3 to 5.8 and was 397 pounds and I’m down to 318.

there's just regular gastric bypass (RNY) and mini gastric bypass (the latter done mostly in Europe - I don't really hear about it in the US). I don't know of any surgery that is done specifically for people who eat sweets - but I had my surgery 10 years ago, so maybe things have changed (??)

My surgeon asked if I eat a lot of sweets to help decide between sleeve and Bypass. He says Bypass works better for patients who crave and eat a lot of sweets. Ironically I did not until AFTER my sleeve. Don’t let this scare you though. My entire experience with the sleeve was not typical. I am much happier with my revision to SADI. I think the sleeve is perfectly fine for a small majority but many of us need more metabolic changes than what the sleeve produces. Any surgery that messes with the intestines is more aggressive and comes with more risks but it also gave me a better shot at real weight loss. Just be sure you are mentally ready to make yourself a priority to be successful with this because after bypass it’s harder to do a revision for weight gain. Not all surgeons do them and risks go up. I mention this because you are going overseas. In the states they do a psyc eval and try to make sure we are prepared but I’m not sure if they do so overseas. That being said my psyc eval was just about worthless 🤦‍♀️