Help deciding which surgery to have

 I had my first surgical consult today.  I had decided on the band, however the surgeon was pretty insistant that a bypass would be the better option for me.  I don't know what to do.  I am starting the 90 day physician lead weight loss tomorrow morning.  This is required by my insurance regardless of which surgery I choose.  I am just not sure what to do.  I have 90 days to decide.  I am going to go to the support groups, but it will be three weeks before another one.

Only you can decide ultimately which surgery is right for you. It might help if you sit down and write down a list of pros/cons of the band and then do the same for the other surgeries, RNY, DS, VSG and so forth. Do your research!
Personally I think the surgeon is on to something, gastric bypass does have a much higher success rate than does the band. I am pushing to have the DS myself.

Good luck in whatever you decide!

 Thank you so much.

Do yourself a BIG favor and forget the band, many surgeons won't even do it anymore because it is so ineffective and causes so many problems post op. Check out the failed lap band forum for more details! I know it is the worst mistake I ever made!

 Sorry you had to go through that.  I recently had my gall bladder removed so I thought a band insertion wouldn't be much more trouble that the gall bladder.  I will go and ready the forum you suggest.  thanks!!

As you will soon see if you visit the failed forum, it is NOT the surgery itself that is the problem. It's the life AFTER the surgery that you have to deal with. Do yourself a favor and think long-term here. This is the rest of your life. Think of the four options:

DS


VSG



RNY

(and waay at the bottom of the list):

Band

(I placed them in the order I would consider them.)

Nicolle

I am nearly two years into post Gastric Bypass rue and y. Let me just say I was like you had just wanted to have the lap band at first, and my surgeon told me the same thing yours is telling you. I thought he was being honest and just looking out for my best interest. In the end its all about money, they bypass is thousands more than the lap band. The gastric bypass was the worst deccision of my life.... THE WORST. I have had nothing but complications since the surgery. it started just three months after the surgery needing to get my gall bladder removed. The stomache pain was still horrible, and I was vomitting many many times a day. Thats when I was put in the hospital matnurished, and a stomach full of bleeding ulcers. I get put in the hospital on average every three months. I am currently in the hospital, been here over a month they had to remove 70% of my small intestin. The entire small intestine was nearly dead. It took them 4 days to fix me, and it turns out the surgeon who did my bypass connected my small intestine backwards to my little pouch creating a twist that caused my small intestine to turn in knots. in the end the choice is yours, nobody was able to change my mind, although I wi****ook their advice. the good thing about the band is its one simple device that is put in, so if there are complications you can just have it removed, where as if you have to have gastric bypass reversed its major surgery. im getting mine reversed here in a couple of months, but untill then I now have to live with a feeding tube, and weigh less than a hundred pounds. I look like a Hollicost  survival im so thin and nothing but bones. Good luck to you and whatever you decide to do.

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 the good thing about the band is its one simple device that is put in, so if there are complications you can just have it removed

this is a LIE

this sounds like its your surgeons fault not the fact that you had the by pass I understand all the pain and suffering you have endored but its not because you had a bypass done its because your surgeon messed up I guess he dont have a good stats if he does things backwards anyway sorry to hear about your problems