Gastric ByPass Surgery
Weight-loss (bariatric) surgery
changes the anatomy of your digestive system to limit the amount of food you can
eat and digest. The surgery aids in weight loss and lowers your risk of medical
problems associated with obesity. Gastric bypass isn't for everyone with obesity,
however. It's a major procedure that poses significant risks, side effects and
requires permanent changes in your lifestyle. It's important to understand
what's involved and what lifestyle changes you must make. You also need to know
that there are safer, more reasonable alternatives to gastrict bypass surgery.
To help make an informed decision, we will 1st look at WeightLoss Surgery-the risks, the costs, the surgical results including mortality rates and a testimony. Then we will make a suggestion of an alternative method.
Risks of Gastrict Bypass Surgery Involved
- Pouch stretching (stomach gets bigger overtime, stretching back to its normal size before surgery).
- Breakdown of staple lines (band and staples fall apart, reversing procedure). As well as, Dehiscence (separation of tissue that was stitched or stapled together).
- Leakage of staples allowing the stomach contents into the abdomen (this is dangerous because the acid can eat away other organs).
- Nutritional deficiencies causing health problems. This requires supplementation of diet with a daily multivitamin, calcium, and sometimes vitamin B12 and/or iron for rest of life.
- Dumping syndrome- whereby stomach contents move too rapidly through the small intestine. Dumping syndrome is an unpleasant side effect that may include vomiting, nausea, weakness, sweating, faintness, and diarrhea.
- Inability to detect the stomach, duodenum, and parts of the small intestine using X-ray or endoscopy, should problems arise after surgery such as ulcers, bleeding, or malignancy.
- Increased gas
Also, you should consider the risks associated with Abdominal Surgery
- Bleeding
- Pain
- Shoulder pain
- Pneumonia
- Complications due to anesthesia and medications
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Injury to stomach, esophagus, or surrounding organs
- Infection
- Pulmonary embolism
- Stroke or Heart Attack
- Death
Cost of Gastrict Bypass Surgery
Gastrict Bypass Surgery can cost as much as $35,000 or more for full gastric bypass surgery. Should complications arise it is extremely difficult to say just what the additional cost would be but it would not be unreasonable to think in terms of a figure of $50,000.And of course realize that with price increases each and every year the cost can go even higher.
Surgical Results
- 95% of patients lose at least 50% excess body weight
- 85% of patients lose at least 75% excess body weight
- Surgical patients maintain 50-60% of weight loss, 10-14 years post surgery (NIH study, 1991)
- 0.5% died or 1 out of every 200 persons (American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery 2004).
The Mayo Clinic reported in 2000 that 20% to 25% of gastric bypass patients develop life-threatening complications. Of greatest concern are the effects of long-term nutritional deficiencies, which are rarely discussed realistically. The neurological decline and aging seen after bariatric surgeries is especially rapid and results from multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Malnutrition problems are not uncommon, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and include anemias, osteoporosis, loss of teeth, blindness and, in a reported 16% of cases, even neurological and brain damage.
So basically people who had weight loss surgery were dying at a rate many times higher than normal--even the rate normal for obese people.
Gastrict Bypass Surgery Example
We came to know Mama Yamin as she bubbled over with happiness as her son Elliot enjoyed tremendous success on the American Idol television show. What we didn't know was that she had undergone dozens of operations for the complications of the weight loss surgery she had undergone and was periodically hospitalized for protein supplementation because she was starving to death. The end result was the complications killed her. She died rail thin, at 65 years old.
She spoke about her complications from weight loss surgery on this television interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28JEjVK6dnw
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