So....Yikes....after researching and researching and researching some more. I completely changed my planned surgery....
Instead of having aVGS, where they cut out your stomach, I am having a "new" procedure called Vertical Gastric Plication. I thought about this for a long time...so here's the low down....
Basically, it is the same procedure as the "sleeve", but they fold 80% of my stomach onto itself to form a sleeve without cutting. Instead they suture it up.
It's fairly new so the downside is that there isn't a huge history, the upside is that it has shown to have same results in terms of weight loss as gastric bypass and gastric sleeve.
Here are the study results:
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/lap.2006.0128?journalCode=lap
I am now having surgery on July 15th, with Dr. Corvala at Angeles Hospital in Tijuana.
http://www.angeleshealth.com/procedures/weight-loss/gastric-sleeve-plication.aspx
This Dr. is one of the first few to offer, and he is a proctor of bariatric surgery. I am now confident in my decision....and ready to go!
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