Pre Bariatric Surgery & looking for supportive friends!

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Did you all have to lose a certain amount of weight before the surgery?

    Usually you have to demonstrate you can control your appetite, as surgery is just a way of enforcing better eating behaviours.
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    One of my co-workers got the Lap-band last year. Her doctor told her she had to first lose 60lbs. I didn't know if it applied to all of those type of weight loss methods.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    They are always keen to reduce the risk of the operation and anaesthetic, and to make it physically easier to carry out by getting some weight loss in advance. The procedures I've seen on TV of various sorts always involved losing weight first to demonstrate you could control your appetite but this may vary by provider and procedure.

    Recent research carried out in America found that on average:
    People with a gastric band will lose around half their excess body weight.
    People with a gastric bypass will lose around two-thirds of their excess body weight.

    The operations have a risk of failure including death. These vary by procedure. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16901359
  • chanimal88
    chanimal88 Posts: 1
    Hi there! I haven't had the surgery myself but work in a bariatric surgery center! Maybe I'll be good for a few tips here and there :) Good for you for taking this step! It's certainly not an "easy way out" as the media portrays it to be.
  • ScoutingMomRosnick
    ScoutingMomRosnick Posts: 11 Member
    I am in the process of my 12 week pre-surgery classes for surgery this summer. I need to try to lose 10% of my body weight prior to surgery. I am learning to eat more protein, get more activity, and learn about what it will be like after surgery. I am trying hard to lose the weight first as they say it is better on your system, your liver shrinks, and your recovery is faster. I hope there are others out there that can relate and we can go through this thing together.
  • tracydr
    tracydr Posts: 528 Member
    How do you and your doctor decide which surgery is best? My daughter-law has about 200 lbs to lose. Will she need RNY? Or, does the gastric band help with such a large amount?
    When is the sleeve or RNY a better option?
    I was a medical resident back in the late 90s and saw some terrible complications from malnutrition with the bypass surgery being used back then. A lot of awful infections, abdominal abscesses and even heart failure. Two of my patients were on a ventilator for about 4-6 months.
    I'm assuming things are much better,now?
  • KarenZen
    KarenZen Posts: 1,430 Member
    I don't know how actve this thread is so I am starting another.

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