Question about long term follow up data

Mermaidz - you and the VSG !  

Zminshen - You won't always be 35 and your body coping well with the excess weight.  It will take it's toll.  

Surgery or not is an individual decision. 

There are lots of articles about the surgery.  For me, the best proof that the benefits outweigh the hazards is that OHIP, after many years, decided to fund it.  I'm sure they didn't pick up a new procedure to fund lightly.

Try google scholar, and ask your librarian to help (they have access to some of the medical websites).  It has definitely been studied.  Also, probably your surgeon and/or the weight loss center or nutritionists can point you to something.  I sense nutritionists are very conflicted about this surgery.

If nutritionists are conflicted about this surgery, I  think they have every right to be. More than anyone else, they understand the long term ramifications of malabsorption and malnutrition. While it immediately cures high cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes etc, the problems down the road (and I'm thinking 20 years..not 5) are ones they have yet to investigate simply because they havent been doing this surgery long enough.  think likely more so than the Dr's at some points.

This surgery? is a "knee slap" reaction to the epidemic called obesity that has invaded North America. That point is all over any website that does research as to why it's so popular. Obesity is very expensive. Heart attacks, hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes  etc are the diseases caused by obesity. It's way cheaper for OHIP to deal with this through gastric surgery than these other diseases that are long term and ongoing. That's a nasty way of seeing it but it's true.

That golden standard "RnY'? is now being compared to the platinum "Sleeve" and for very good reason.

And for your info shallow,,, I'm a RnY :)