Vergito

Is anyone familiar with this surgery type?  Anyone know someone who has it?

I have a friend that has failed bypass and she's considering this surgery type and I was hoping to find a few folks that have had it done or know something about it.  I have another friend that as soon as finances are set (will be awhile) she is planning on revising from a failed band to Vergito.

TIA

I think that is a Dr. Husted procedure. 

 
Yes, It is.  On paper it should work.  If it does... I'm researching to find out.

I found this site, you've probably already seen it, but just in case:

http://obesitysurgery-info.com/vergito.htm

I have seen it and to be honest I discounted it because it's so full of agenda.  I want to find more balanced info and patients that have had it done.

Thanks for looking though, I really appreciate it.

.....and from Dr. Husted's own writings:

http://www.johnhustedmd.com/vergito.htm

VERGITO: Risks of the Procedure

Although VERGITO is as of yet a novel and untested procedure, the risks of surgery are expected to compare with those of similar procedures. Those risks include: staple-line leak, infection, bleeding, nausea/vomiting, blood clots in the legs or lungs, and bowel obstruction due to scar tissue or to twisting of the intestine. Other risks are those which are more specific to the underlying health status of the patient undergoing the procedure, such as heart attack, kidney failure, and the possibility of requiring prolonged assistance with a ventilator in order to breathe. Patients undergoing this procedure should understand that - despite how well the individual components of the procedure are understood - it is expected to be considered an experimental procedure. As such, there may be consequences of the procedure that are unexpected, and which might possibly require reversal of the operation. In addition, VERGITO is not expected to be covered by health insurance.

So far as I know, only Husted and some doc in Brazil are doing this, and I'm not certain that the two of them are doing exactly the same thing. We did have a couple of people over on the DS board who'd had it, but I haven't seen any posts from them in quite some time.

I'm a little leery of it, because NO ONE knows what our omentum may or may not being doing for us. Of course, it's possible it's doing bad stuff, too. I know that since my gall bladder was removed during my DS, I no longer have a pain that I'd had practically since birth but which no one associated with my gall bladder. (*grin*)

 
I could have sworn I responded to this yesterday but today it isn't showing up.

I do not believe they are doing the same technique.

I emailed Dr. Husted asking if the procedure could be done without removing the omentum and he said it could but removing it helps the insulin resistance a great deal.

I've been thinking, I seriously doubt I was insulin resistant when I had either surgery.  I got fat because I ate too much fast food.  I ate way more calories than I burned.  When I quit eating in quantity and started eating a more balanced diet I lost weight like crazy.  Now, I realize that someone with PCOS or some other reason for insulin resistance... they may do better having the omentum removed.  But if I was considering surgery and it was between ... say... the band or Vergito, heck... I'd get the vergito in a nanosecond.  Not sure about the omentum part.

I look at it this way, we KNOW the risks and complications for banding, ERNY, etc., and people still opt for it anyway.  Serious and life threatening complications.  It's a crap shoot who will suffer with any of the procedures.  We do it anyway.  What's the difference between knowing the serious and life threatening complications vs. not knowing?  Either way you don't know if you'll be a statistic or not.  Most of the known risks in Dr. Husted's info are standard surgical risks for any procedure including removing a gallbladder or appendix.   The other known risks are less than for bypass or DS and if it turns out there is something really horrible about the procedure it's basically reversible, right?  Minus the sleeve portion and if you opt for the omentum removal.

If my choices were band, bypass, ERNY, or Vergito.. hands down, Vergito.  Actually, include DS in that.  If it was sleeve vs. Vergito, I would get the sleeve.

Going through all this research again for my friends... I'm really glad I'm at goal and don't have to make this decision again.  I'm starting to remember what it was like the last two times. ;o)