What Should I ask My Surgeon Pre-Op?

I am a Bander seeking revision to the Switch, seeing Dr. Sudan at Duke. I did my whole pre-op testing and clearance process with another office (We thought I wanted to revise to RNY, I changed my mind), but I've been able to transfer all of my results over to the new surgeon's office.

I have an appointment to go back in a month from now to see where we are with insurance and to make sure we've got all pre-op testing covered(which I think I do). After that, I guess all there is left to do is nail down a date... so things are moving pretty quickly now.

I have a few questions about the actual surgery part of things and I'm compiling a list of things to ask him about when I see him. I would love it if any of you could share what you would/did/should have asked before your surgery specific to the surgery and immediate post-op.

Some of the things on mine are: Does he do a feeding tube post op if so, for how long, how long will the surgery be, can I have a Zofran script sent home with me, can i keep the band after he digs it out, etc.

What else?? 

Thanks!!

Have you seen this list of questions to ask your surgeon?

http://www.dsfacts.com/Questions-To-Ask-Your-Surgeon.html

I had seen it but I had forgotten about it. Thanks!

Katie, I had my DS with Dr. Sudan in July.  I am a virgin DSer so I really don't know what he would do with patients who had the band.  I did not have any feeding tubes post-op.    I had a catheter and the usual heart monitor, pulse oximeter, plus access to a morphine pump.  Each day they removed one of those connections.   My surgery was about 4 hours.  He does not require you to do a liquid fast pre-op except for the day prior to surgery.

I know you have other questions to ask but this is my experience with him.  I highly recommend him.

Thanks for the info, that's what I was looking for. Will double-check with him on next appointment. (:

Glad to hear a recommendation as well!