Sleeve Gastrectomy Operation 

This surgery saved my life. I’ve lost all my weight in 9 months and got some loose skin. I always suggest to people this surgery is not a MIRACLE from heaven cause you need to put yourself through it to get better results. Get ready for it mentally and physically. Eat small portion with small utensils, get your vitamins and proteins and last stay active. You can eat your favorite food with moderation. Best of luck to anyone looking forward having weight loss surgery !

Not only do different surgeons use different bougie sizes, which only controls the diameter of the sleeve, but one aspect that most bariatric patients know nothing about is how far away from the pyloric valve a surgeon starts resecting the sleeve. In the beginning about 16 years ago when sleeves first started being done as a standalone, one-time surgery, most surgeons started resecting sleeves about 6-7 cm away from the pyloric valve/pylorus. This created a baggie area at the bottom of the sleeve near the antrum, which created a more voluminous sleeve, less restriction, a shorter Honeymoon and more regain. Over time, the surgeons started resecting the sleeve closer and closer to the pyloric valve/pylorus. Now most surgeons start resecting sleeves at 2-3 cm away from the pyloric valve/pylorus. This may create more nausea and more reflux and other difficulties with getting water in in the beginning, but overall they have better success with weight loss and maintaining that weight loss. However about 25% to 30% of surgeons are still stuck in a RUT and are too afraid to cut that close to the pyloric valve, so they still do it the old-fashioned way from 16 years ago and start cutting at a full 6-7 cm away from the pyloric valve. Most patients have no idea about this and don’t EVEN KNOW TO ASK their surgeons how far away from the pylorus they start resecting the sleeve. Also, surgeons almost never OFFER this information in advance of doing a sleeve. No matter how many pre-op classes or seminars or literature is offered to a patient, they just never disclose this information in the beginning or even AFTER surgery - unless the patient specifically ASKS. Even then, the surgeons will CLAIM that it makes no difference in weight loss. After the surgery it’s too late to fix that. Sometimes you can go to a different surgeon and get re-sleeved. The ORIGINAL surgeon will refuse to - bc that would be ADMITTING they made the sleeve BIG... However, if the original surgeon can do a Revision to RNY for some OTHER reason (like reflux), he would probably do that for the PROFIT, plus he doesn’t have to ADMIT the patient’s slow weight loss is because he made a big sleeve in the first place... The problem with these old-school surgeons is that they are not TRANSPARENT about this and so the patients really have no real choice as to what size sleeve they get, because they are not being informed at the outset. If they were H O N E S T, they would tell them in the beginning and then the patient would have an actual REAL choice to go down the road to a different surgeon. The other tragedy after such a large sleeve has been done on a patient is they will notice that they are not losing as fast as other people, don’t have as much restriction, are hungrier, and aren’t losing as fast as others who had a sleeve by a different surgeon, and their honeymoon is over sooner [LIKE 4-6 MONTHS] and sometimes they start experiencing RE-GAIN in several months before they’ve even reached their GOAL. The OTHER tragedy on top of that is that such a surgeon and his Team including his nutritionist and dietitian will TRY TO BLAME THE CLUELESS PATIENT for this (the surgeon AND HIS TEAM knowing full well that he makes big sleeves)! The way to find out what size sleeve you were given in terms of distance from the pyloric valve is to order your Operative Report from the Hospital records department (YOU DO NOT NEED YOUR SURGEON’S PERMISSION). Find the sentence that reads something like this: “The sleeve began being resected at _________ centimeters distal from the pylorus or pyloric valve” Whatever that number is: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7, THAT will tell you how big your sleeve is in terms of volume. Again this has nothing to do with bougie size....which can ALSO have some impact, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS THE DISTANCE FROM THE PYLORIC VALVE THAT THE SLEEVE BEGAN BEING RESECTED.

Dr bessler!! He just did my sleeve surgery. So far, so good👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

great easy explanation from Top Doctor ❤️

I had this operation a few years back but i got a horrible infection in my brain (wernicke enzephalopathie) i am normal weight now... i used to weigh about 500pounds (250kg) now i weigh about 190pounds (95kg) what i wanted to say to the people that watch this video is getting this operation is risky the doctors thought i was going to die... AND another thing it does not stay small now i can eat normal portions... (sorry if my english is bad i live in germany)

I'm interested in getting the gastric sleeve, struggled most of my life, hard to get on the NHS, not got the money for private in UK, so considering saving for the procedure in Prague, this will take a few years to save, but is my goal

How long should u wait before you have a different kind of surgery ? Like for back surgery ?

I have a question after you lose all the weigh do your feet change sizes.. cause I have spent a ton of money on shoes and most of them I have not worn yet

They shrink it down to the size of a lemon now, due to the tube version screwing with digestion! UNMC surgeon says the lemon size version of a gastric bypass is much better than a sleeve due to the very small amount of work needed to be done. It’s pretty much like cut stomach in half then stitch the top back to the bottom of the stomach.

How long does it take to start loosing weight ?

Much will also depend on the Surgery and the kind of sleeve that was created for U during surgery,Meaning that U can fail the surgery & also the surgery can fail on you(more common).I was 104Kg and got a Gastric sleeve done and reduced to 71kg and holding at that weight since the surgery around 2.5 years ago.

What about churning the food is what the stomach does? It's its' job.I don't understand how this is healthy.I am on the fence about wls.

I was told you still had to exercise with the gastric bypass....

Is there a medication that reduces the effects of the hunger hormones? I’m too scared to have surgery

What if I don’t eat much as it is?! Lol I’m almost 500 pounds but only eat once a day... granted not always the best things, but not a lot. Would this even help?

I heard HORROR story of people who had it, as for me i cancel my surgery, I rather work out and eat right than have complication for the rest of my life

I have a question do you go home the same day of gastric bypass surgery?

Do the staples stay in the stomach forever ?

I m doing in Tijuana on July 8th as American Doctors are crazy what they charge

Staple means what. Stitching with threads or iron pins or what?

so does the stomach heal heal with stichies and not have to have any plalstic holding the two cut pices months downs the road ?

There are people that claim that one of the downside of this surgery is that because you technically have no stomach, if you ever have an ulcer or any kind of stomach cancer, you'll surely die because now you have NO stomach. Can anyone speak to this????? thanks.

My old cardiologist kept insisting that I do this. However, I feel in my gut that surgery is not for me. I often binge-eat junk food to cope with stress, anxiety, and depression. No surgery in the world can fix that.

GOOD VÍDEO Í HAVE MY SON WITH 196 KG IS NECESSSRY THIS OPERATION BUT WATH ABOUT PRICE COST .Í AM FROM .MOZAMBIQUE

My aunt had this done I was wondering how it was done because in months she lost like 100 lbs crazy. I just finished losing 35lbs but dieting and exercising. I love food too much to ever want this done even If I needed it. I’d rather die eating tacos.

why so much being removed? I could see removing about 20% but 80% is to much.

Please help me understand my sleeve surgery! First my doctor told me he only takes 50% out!!? After many months of reaching this I asked him I have not read anywhere any successful sleeve surgery with just 50%!!!? The morning of my surgery I brought my concern to the nurse's which they relayed it to him. I just got my pathlogy report! Here what it said.... "Stapled margin of resection measuring 22.5 × 3.0 cm" Can someone explains this to me? Please! I'm 12 post op and my stomach is always growling.

Does this surgery cure diabettes?

This surgery is safe ah

can it be reversed?

No thanks! 😳

Absolutely insane on a healthy organ! Try some discipline and self-control.