If you could do it over

would you stick with RNY, or go a different route?

 

I would do VSG if possible.  I'm very happy with my RNY, but would like it to be safer to take NSAIDS and would like to not have to worry so much about vitamins.

I'm under 1 year out and wouldn't change a thing :)

5 years out - I would have a VSG.. no question about that, not even one. 

I've never regretted if for one second ... but then I haven't had any complications or difficulties in 9 years!

I haven't had any complications but knowing what I know now I would have gone with DS. Seems more like what I need. I love my RNY but DS would have been even better I think

I'm not happy about the vitamin issues that I'll likely always face, but I'd do the RNY again.  My main reason for surgery was acid reflux and no other surgery guarantees a better result.  Living without the acid problems is a HUGE benefit to me.  One that outweighs any of the other downsides.

I would opt for the sleeve if I were doing it again.  The temporary caloric malabsorption of the RNY isn't worth the permanent lack of vitamin absorption and inability to take any type of NSAID (ibuprofen OR aspirin) IMO.

(I am 6 years out)

Lora

After the failed Lap Band that had to be removed due to erosion, I will tell you that I am very pleased with my RNY.  I am 2 weeks out with zero complications and feel like this is the journey I am supposed to be on!

I am only 9.5 weeks out, so I can't speak for the long term, but I have 0 regrets so far, even with the for life vitamin regimen...I much prefer that to popping metformin everyday AND dealing with malabsorption issues because of that medicine. The immediate resolution of my pre-diabetes was so very, very worth it for me...I don't mind taking my vitamins every day at all, it makes me feel like I'm doing something healthful instead of taking medications reminding me that I'm sick and probably going to croak at 45 or something. If I end up needing transfusions for iron or something down the line that does not feel like a huge deal to me either (I had one during pregnancy, and it's mostly just very boring!). Sleeve is less frequently covered by insurance and RNY has decades of research and refinement that I felt safest going that route and was in excellent hands with a top notch surgeon. I had a BMI over 50 pre-op also so that was an additional reason my surgeon and I chose the RNY.