Some weight-loss surgery programs have groups you can attend before and after surgery to help answer questions about the surgery and offer support.
Occasionally, gastric sleeve surgery is done if you’re overweight but don’t meet the criteria for obesity, but you have a significant health condition related to your weight.
A surgical procedure called biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch, or “mixed surgery,” involves two separate procedures. The first procedure is similar to gastric sleeve surgery. A second surgical procedure divides the small intestine into two tracts.
Thoroughly understand that the procedure is just a tool; long-term success requires significant diet and lifestyle changes
Don't fall for gimmicks when it comes to weight loss. Evaluate diets carefully to find one that's right for you.
Laparoscopic surgery has fewer risks than open surgery and may cause less pain and scarring. Recovery may also be faster with laparoscopic surgery.
Additionally, this procedure can impair the absorption of fats, leading to loose bowel movements and diarrhea if one eats a lot of fatty foods.
Diets you've tried. What did you like or dislike about them? Were you able to follow the diet? What worked or didn't work? How did you feel physically and emotionally while on the diet?
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Follow your bariatric doctors’ advice to the letter – this may sound obvious, but you’d be surprised how many stomach bypass patients follow their doctors’ orders for the first year or two then slowly start to falter. Effective
Before the operation, you’ll be given medicine (general anaesthetic) that puts you to sleep. The medicine is injected or inhaled as a gas through a mask.
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peripheral arterial disease (PAD) – when your arteries become narrow so blood can’t get to your leg muscles, causing pain in your calves, hips, buttocks and thighs – usually when you’re walking or exercising