wendyS
My husband's BMI pre-surgery was 45 while mine was 35.5. Both of us had pre-morbidities, Jeff's were hypertension, hyperlipidemia and severe sleep apnea while mine were hypertriglyceridemia, hyperlipidemia and hypertension. My brother had previously undergone DS surgery (LapDS Rabkin 7/03) and all of us were convinced that the DS was the best choice, not only did it provide restriction to enable one to lose weight but it provided malabsorption to maintain the weight loss.
Dr. Baltasar (who is one of the sleeve pioneers and has published on the subject) said that, taking into account my relatively low BMI and the fact that my pre-morbidities were controlled by medication, the only WLS surgery he would perform on me was the SG. At that time, two years ago, I had not yet heard of the sleeve and it wasn't that well known. I was concerned about my ability to maintain my weight-loss in the long-run but decided that it was better to do something than continue the way I was, so I said Yes to the Sleeve and am so glad that I did. I must add that, with my husband's malabsorption problems and bowel issues, he sometimes is sorry he didn't chose the Sleeve as well since both of us at 20 months out have attained a BMI of 25.
