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[Ariazoom]

An update.
I had a consult with my surgeon last week. He tried to talk me into SADI but i insisted on traditional. I'm going to cash pay and hopefully will get scheduled for surgery in December.

 

[southernlady]

An update.
I had a consult with my surgeon last week. He tried to talk me into SADI but i insisted on traditional. I'm going to cash pay and hopefully will get scheduled for surgery in December.

Make sure you get him to detail the common channel and the alimentary limb in your consent Before you sign.

 

[Ariazoom]

Will do.

 

[Larra]

Yes! What southernlady said! Get everything in writing and get it all pre-op. And, if there is something specific that you don't want no matter what, put that on your consent form as well, such as "no gastric bypass" just as an example. This way, if your surgeon gets in there and feels that DS is either not safe or not possible for some unlikely reason, you may not wake up with a DS but you won't be stuck with something that in your opinion is unacceptable.

 

[southernlady]

Mine had the possibility of being done open. I had no issue with that option.

 

[Larra]

Going open is always a possibility if the surgeon considers it impossible to do the surgery safely laparoscopically for whatever reason. I guess you could tell the surgeon ahead of time that you would rather not have your bariatric surgery at all than have open surgery, which (to me) doesn't seem like a great decision, but it's not my surgery and each of us gets to decide what we do and don't find acceptable.

 

[hilary1617]

For what it's worth, I've had a number of abdominal surgeries and have reached a point where I actually prefer open to lap.

 

[Ariazoom]

My surgery is in 2 weeks and I started the 2 week protein liquids diet.

 

[hilary1617]

Congratulations on reaching this milestone! Almost there!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Congratulations on reaching this milestone! Almost there!

Not crazy about all the gas used to turn your abdomen into something the size of an airplane hangar?

 

[southernlady]

I had an open abdominal surgery in 1994. Compared to the terrible gas pain of the laproscopic, I actually prefer open. Much less painful.

 

[hilary1617]

Not crazy about all the gas used to turn your abdomen into something the size of an airplane hangar?

That's a big part of it, but also I think there is some benefit about contact with the surgeon's actual hands vs devices, and direct visualization.

 

[Ariazoom]

Going into surgery tomorrow afternoon. Wish me luck!

 

[JackieOnLine]

Going into surgery tomorrow afternoon. Wish me luck!

I wish you an uneventful surgery and a rapid recovery!

 

[Munchkin]

Best of luck!