sleeve gastrectomy

720diesel
on 11/14/14 5:48 am

Has any one ever went in for duedanal switch and just kept sleeve gastrectomy as stand alone

Cathy W.
on 11/14/14 5:55 am

If you haven't already, you should post this on the DS and Sleeve message boards too. 

Valerie G.
on 11/14/14 11:57 pm - Northwest Mountains, GA

A friend of mine experienced this.  When they got to her liver, they discovered that her cirrhosis was too severe for the DS.  They gave her the VSG and referred her to a liver specialist from there.  

One thing you want to make sure is that the surgeon you're talking to is a real DS surgeon.  There are some unscrupulous surgeons who know VSG, but they advertise that they do DS to lure you in and then try to convince you.  There is a site that lists known DS surgeons here.

Valerie
DS 2005

There is room on this earth for all of God's creatures..
next to the mashed potatoes

MsBatt
on 11/15/14 8:15 am

That's how the Sleeve got started as a stand-alone procedure. Surgeons where doing just the stomach portion of the DS on patients who were too sick to withstand the whole procedure at once, and some of them found they lost so much weight with just the Sleeve that they elected to not go back for the second half. However, many found that about five years later they were regaining, so surgeons started making smaller and smaller Sleeves---and that's when we started seeing a lot of patients developing GERD.

I highly recommend that you do more research and decide which would be better for YOU---the whole, complete DS, or just the Sleeve, and get your whole procedure done at once. It works better that way, and you don't have to face the risks of surgery twice.

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