Hi everyone, New to wls and in process of having wls. I was recently diagnosed with pcos and am leaning toward the sleeve as I am a volume eater and this surgery has no malabsorption problems. Please send your thoughts my way, I would really appreciate it. Thanks so much!!!

I can't tell you anything about the sleeve as I had RNY, but I can tell you that within losing 60 lbs, my PCOS symptoms were gone and after losing just shy of 200 lbs, I was pregnant.

 Thanks for the post and congrats on your upcoming baby, I pray all goes well for you!! God bless you!!

Malabsorption is a good thing. It helps you keep the weight off. Learn more about the BEST option, the duodenal switch, at www.dsfacts.com .

Like EN, I too think malabsorption is a good thing. (*grin*) It's the reason the DS has the very BEST long-term, maintained weight loss, AND why it's the best at resolving or preventing co-morbs like diabetes and high cholesterol.

But if you MUST choose between the Sleeve or the RNY, I personally would go with the Sleeve. It preserves the pylorus, and all normal stomach functions. AND if, down the road, you learn that you NEED malabsorption, it's much easier to revise the Sleeve to the DS than it is to revise the RNY.

Please research the DS before you make your final decision, and visit the Revision board. As we say over on the DS board "Think twice, cut once."

First and foremost check with your insurance and find out what surgeries are covered.

Second.  With the RNY and DS surgery the part of the intestines that they have found that the diabetes is is bypassed so most people with RNY and DS surgeries do not have diabetes/PCOS anymore.


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 if you want to give up having arthritis therapy, or aspirin therapy for your heart for the rest of your life,,,have the rny,  Nsaids are contraindicated with rny,,, is 

 the DS is the only surgery I considered,,,I would of stayed fat, and treated my diabetes before any other surgery..

Walter my love, in English there is NEVER a place for more than one comma at a time. ",,," is simply not used in written English---so STOP IT!!!

(*hugs*---keep on rockin' that DS!)

I have pcos and recently had rny surgery. I only sought out weight loss surgery because I was researching treatment for pcos and ran across some studies showing that rny bypass is the ONLY cure they have found for pcos.  Check out this article: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/Documents/Bariatric_Surgery/PC OS.pdf

Good luck!

Sorry, but that's just not true. The DS is much BETTER at curing/treating PCOS and diabetes than the RNY is.