21 and considering RNY. Pros and Cons?

Hi,

I am waiting to have my surgery RNY, I'm up on 9/14.  I chose this because I have severe acid reflux and my doctor said it could be worse with the sleeve, so I chose RNY.  My daughter had the sleeve last November, she never had an issue with reflux, and now she has it really bad.  So bad that she suffers severe nausea and is now on meds for it.  Ask a lot of questions of your doctor he best knows your history and what would be best for you. 

I am still terrified, but I am moving forward because I need to get healthier.

Good Luck in whatever you decide.

That's what I was afraid of! It just unfortunate that there are pros and cons to everything.

Hi Morgan, your BMI and age are close to where I don't know if I would consider it...as 35 BMI I think is the cut off of where they consider doing the surgery. Plus with being so young, I would definitely do as much research as you can - which you obviously are, so I think that's a great step!

I was 33 when I had RNY and it honestly wasn't that hard to change my lifestyle. But I felt I didn't have a choice. The cons afterwards are definitely that for the REST of your life you have to eat a certain way, this is a tool and you have to use it - if you don't the weight will come back, it's not magic. Some people will eat whatever they want after the surgery, lose the weight they want to during the 'honeymoon phase' and then about a year later have all of the weight come back - because they changed nothing. So you have to change things or it won't be successful in my opinion And that is a drawback for sure.

I saw previously in the thread that you get headaches - I get migraines and headaches as well. I'm on tompomax and a variety of other meds as well. I take triptans for break through migraines and I was worried about not being about to take NSAIDS as well. But my Neurologist was super on board - there are studies that show WLS help reduce migraines. And my various Neurologists have all agreed that taking Tylenol or NSAIDS on a regular basis is really bad for headache and migraine sufferers anyways due to getting rebound headaches so they had already broken me of that habit. I switched from NSAIDS to Tylenol and honestly haven't seen much of a difference.

Good luck with your decision.

Awesome! That's good to know about the headaches. 

I recently went to an eye doctor and she felt that my migraines were less related to having migraines but more related to blood sugar. I did some blood work yesterday, so if it's blood sugar related i would expect weight loss t help

I have BCBS and they covered my sleeve.