Wow! That's amazing! Great job!

Great to hear that congratulations

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It does correct the acid reflux and narrowing of esophagus due to the acid irritation. Wife was a 2mm and could barely eat and had the bypass after the sleeve which was a couple of years ago. Insurance covered most of it because she had an h.hernia that needed to be resolved also. It wasn't weight loss surgery so had to really get the dr to use different codes to get it accepted. She is up and walking around 5 days out but still a little sore. No more acid reflux at all!

Just advise clients on fasting and proper healthy eating habits. There's no point of operation if they will gain it all back. Stop lying to people. You can't eat sugar and expect to maintain your weight. Stop talking nonsense. Advise everyone to eat natural foods, stop sugar and carbs and do IF.

Update: She is doing amazingly well now. No more acid reflux at all. All the swelling from the acid damage has substantially decreased. She looks amazing! I think she lost like 80 lbs from the original sleeve procedure and then another 20 from bypass. She is back to eating my grilled ribeye steaks and we save a ton of money when we go out to restaurants now since we share whatever we order. 🙂

If you already had the sleeve and suffer from Gerd, definitely get the bypass. A severe case of acid reflux puts you at a higher risk of esophageal cancer. Insurance should cover this procedure. I think we paid like no more than 2500 out of pocket. You just have to work with your Dr and provider to get the proper codes since it's not a weight loss reason for your surgery. I can get you my wife's contact info if you want to know how she got thru it.

thank you for commenting on this! I had lap band surgery about 20 years ago. I'm now faced with having the lap band removed due to it no longer being optimal for having a foreign device in my body. I recently had an EGD and found to have severe esophagitis. I'm going to have a revision and was thinking of the gastric sleeve. I met with the doctor today who suggested bypass over sleeve because of acid reflux complications making my symptoms worse.

My sister pick one.

On the fence - I worry about GERD down the road - no good options to solve this. I think RYGB + meds provides a lot more weight loss with a better side effect profile.

It's a decent surgery but it does have malabsorptive issues, more so than even a gastric bypass.

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Yes, great idea in theory, but I have not found the linx to be particularly helpful in treating reflux after vsg

Interesting. Some studies say there's an 85% success rate in getting off PPIs with linx after sleeve surgery.

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@@apoundofcure THis is the MRI Report: Diagnostic imaging report Subject: Patient Findings: TECHNIQUE MR study of the upper abdomen. Pre contrast fat suppressed T1, T1, fat suppressed T2, PDFF, and DWI (b=50, 400, 800). REPORT The liver shows diffuse steatosis with no evidence of cirrhosis. No focal liver lesions are seen. The portal and hepatic veins are patent. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-estimated proton density fat fraction (PDFF) is 32%. No intra or extrahepatic biliary dilatation. No gallstones are seen, no signs of cholecystitis. The pancreas is normal and the pancreatic duct is normal in calibre. The spleen is normal in size. No ascites. No upper abdominal lymphadenopathy by size criteria. No renal or adrenal abnormalities. CONCLUSION Advanced hepatic steatosis with no evidence of cirrhosis. ███ Question: Is my Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) responsible of my erratic metabolism? Thanks.

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The short answer is no. Both occur only after a bypass. Check out this video for more info: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pqiEicqAsqiVoIk.html

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Yes, but it may make your IBS symptoms worse

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How much is a little weight?

Let's say about 5kg. I'm currently 80kg but I will like to go down to 75kg... and that will be fine for me.

​I appreciate your response

95% of insurance plans do cover bariatric surgery.

that is a question for your surgeon

I'd have thought that smoking weed would be the worst possible thing to do prior to or post surgery as weed makes you want to eat! I remember when I was young having a joint, getting high and then going to the fridge and thinking, 'right, where do I start!' I bet weed is actually a cause of many people becoming obese in the first place, much as it can be very enjoyable.

Fantastic question, i gained about 50 lbs from taking weed ones a week only, is there any way to continue taking weed (need it) and still be abel to watch the weight?