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RNY vs The Band – My Take

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Category : daily life

If you are on any of the WLS oriented forums out there, one topic you’ll come across fairly frequently is when someone posts that they are looking in to surgery, but they don’t know if they should get RNY or the Band. Sometimes VSG and DS come up, but I don’t know much about those… so I’m going to give you my take on how the two compare.

Remember, I’m no medical doctor or anything, this is just what I’ve learned from reading about other peoples experiences and what I learned in my own pre-op research. This decision is a very personal one, but maybe I can give you some good stuff to think about while making it.

Living With the Consequences

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Category : daily life

As a WLSer, we are given a tool to help us lose weight. Along with that tool our surgeons give us a set of guidelines on how to maximize the effective use of that tool in our lives. If you follow those guidelines, you are all but guaranteed that your surgery will work, and you will not only lose weight but keep it off.

There’s just one problem. We’re human.

For many of us, rules are meant to be broken. We get complacent. We get lazy. We get… Whatever it is, there’s going to come a time where we “break the rules”.

And ya know what? That’s ok.