Sharonimo
Sleeve to Bypass
Well I've been sleeved so there's no going back now.
However, my surgeon does not appear to be quite as keen on the sleeve as some other surgeons (including one I am aware of at the Homerton who is now favouring the sleeve for many patients).
When I saw Mr Sufi in January and told him of my decision to change from bypass to sleeve, he gave me the lecture about "you might not lose as much weight as with a bypass" etc etc .... but I went into that meeting with print outs of shed loads of sleeve research papers I had found (or been sent by our resident researcher, Wannabeminime -- LOL!) .... and convinced him that I was making this choice after serious consideration.
Then 2 days ago when I saw him a few hours before my op, he was still saying to me: "you might stretch the sleeve, especially 4 or 5 years down the line there is a tendency to regain the weight".
Then he started talking to me about the post-op diet and the regime I should adhere to.
At that point (slightly peee'd off that he was still trying to put a downer on the sleeve on the actual day of my operation) I piped up that I had bought the book "Successful Weight Loss with the Gastric Sleeve" and read all about the post op diet phases.
MR SUFI: "Who wrote that?"
ME: "Dr Alvarez"
MR SUFI: "Ah yes, the Mexican -- he does give a very rosey picture".
Hmmmmm ..............
I did not enquire further -- assume Mr Sufi was implying that Guillermo Alvarez gives the 'rosey picture' that all his patients lose 90+% excess weight loss, with loads of success stories on his website of 70lbs, 100 lbs, 150 lbs, 200 lbs and 250 lbs losses ..... and perhaps that is not the full picture, or not the picture that Mr Sufi has encountered with long term sleevers.
(But unfortunately people who don't do well with the sleeve -- or any weight loss surgery -- are ususally the ones who don't return for all their 1 year and 2 year post op check up appointments, and who disappear off the forums, not wanting to admit defeat or failure etc, so we hear less about them !!!).
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However, my surgeon does not appear to be quite as keen on the sleeve as some other surgeons (including one I am aware of at the Homerton who is now favouring the sleeve for many patients).
When I saw Mr Sufi in January and told him of my decision to change from bypass to sleeve, he gave me the lecture about "you might not lose as much weight as with a bypass" etc etc .... but I went into that meeting with print outs of shed loads of sleeve research papers I had found (or been sent by our resident researcher, Wannabeminime -- LOL!) .... and convinced him that I was making this choice after serious consideration.
Then 2 days ago when I saw him a few hours before my op, he was still saying to me: "you might stretch the sleeve, especially 4 or 5 years down the line there is a tendency to regain the weight".
Then he started talking to me about the post-op diet and the regime I should adhere to.
At that point (slightly peee'd off that he was still trying to put a downer on the sleeve on the actual day of my operation) I piped up that I had bought the book "Successful Weight Loss with the Gastric Sleeve" and read all about the post op diet phases.
MR SUFI: "Who wrote that?"
ME: "Dr Alvarez"
MR SUFI: "Ah yes, the Mexican -- he does give a very rosey picture".
Hmmmmm ..............
I did not enquire further -- assume Mr Sufi was implying that Guillermo Alvarez gives the 'rosey picture' that all his patients lose 90+% excess weight loss, with loads of success stories on his website of 70lbs, 100 lbs, 150 lbs, 200 lbs and 250 lbs losses ..... and perhaps that is not the full picture, or not the picture that Mr Sufi has encountered with long term sleevers.
(But unfortunately people who don't do well with the sleeve -- or any weight loss surgery -- are ususally the ones who don't return for all their 1 year and 2 year post op check up appointments, and who disappear off the forums, not wanting to admit defeat or failure etc, so we hear less about them !!!).
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