RNY vs SLEEVE

Hello,

I am on the fence about which surgery to have. Any input will be greatly appreciated. 

Have you spoken with your surgeon about the decision? He/she will often have good insight into your medical history and health condition, and use that to make a recommendation. For example, diabetes patients are strongly recommended to go with RNY, and patients with any history of GERD should avoid the sleeve.

It really depends on so many things - your health, your weight, etc, etc.  

They both work very differently, so it's important that you research all you can on both of them (and add the DS).  Compare what you learn about how they work to what you know about yourself and how your body reacts to your dieting efforts.  That is harder for a surgeon to gauge with the small time they spend with you.

I was on the fence prior to surgery as well and flip-flopped a few times while weighing the pros and cons.  My surgeon felt either would be fine, because she felt that my gerd would be corrected by fixing my hiatal hernia.  In the end I decided on VSG - it was research on it which had made me feel that it was time to do WLS in the first place because the malabsorbsion aspect of RNY made me nervous.

Good Morning,

Thank you for responding. The malabsortion is what make me nervous as well. How much did you weigh prior to the surgery and how much do you weigh now?  Do you what the success rate is for either of the surgeries? 

What I've noticed over the years of reading OH is that the success rate is what you make of it.  If you're willing to work at it, you'll be successful with either surgery.  If you don't work at it, you won't be.  

My weights are in my signature.  My surgeon said the overall stats are pretty comparable in their practice, which is why over the last couple of years they have been doing more VSGs than RNYs.