There is NOTHING Safe, quick or simple about surgery. I used to work ER before having my children , the hospital had a "bariatric surgery center of excellence". So many patients came in with pain and complications YEARS after their surgery. Everything from fistulas to wound infections to strictures and malnutrition. One month ago my sister had the sleeve gastrectomy surgery against my best advice . She was OK the first month , just totally unable to move her bowls . A month after no bowl movements she started vomiting feces, and has been dry heaving and vomitimg at least 3 times a day. She's depressed, anxious and feels horibly. I'm afraid she has developed gastric stenosis ( i.ie. your bowls shut down) , though at her follow up the doctor assured her she was just dehydrated. I bolused her with 2 bags of NS and she was finally able to go to the bathroom. The nausea is still horrible as is the newly developed GERD, I know she wishes she had listened to me.
My advice is to use surgery as it was intended as a life saving proceedure. It is NEVER safe, NEVER simple , and NEVER guaranteed . Doctors doing these proceedures on patients with NO comorbidities, like my siter are no better than a sleezy car salesmen . They are millionaires making money on charlatan surgeries, but YOU are the one who has to live with the consequences. My sister's surgeon is "world renowned", not a third world inexperienced surgeon. My advice is to diet and leave the surgery for when it is going to immediately and deffinitely save your life because there is absolutely NO guarantee the Gastric Surgery is going to improve it as there is no guarantee that a BMI of 39 ( the minimum BMI on which they'll do surgery) is going to negatively affect it.
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There is NOTHING Safe, quick or simple about surgery. I used to work ER before having my children , the hospital had a "bariatric surgery center of excellence". So many patients came in with pain and complications YEARS after their surgery. Everything from fistulas to wound infections to strictures and malnutrition. One month ago my sister had the sleeve gastrectomy surgery against my best advice . She was OK the first month , just totally unable to move her bowls . A month after no bowl movements she started vomiting feces, and has been dry heaving and vomitimg at least 3 times a day. She's depressed, anxious and feels horibly. I'm afraid she has developed gastric stenosis ( i.ie. your bowls shut down) , though at her follow up the doctor assured her she was just dehydrated. I bolused her with 2 bags of NS and she was finally able to go to the bathroom. The nausea is still horrible as is the newly developed GERD, I know she wishes she had listened to me.
My advice is to use surgery as it was intended as a life saving proceedure. It is NEVER safe, NEVER simple , and NEVER guaranteed . Doctors doing these proceedures on patients with NO comorbidities, like my siter are no better than a sleezy car salesmen . They are millionaires making money on charlatan surgeries, but YOU are the one who has to live with the consequences. My sister's surgeon is "world renowned", not a third world inexperienced surgeon. My advice is to diet and leave the surgery for when it is going to immediately and deffinitely save your life because there is absolutely NO guarantee the Gastric Surgery is going to improve it as there is no guarantee that a BMI of 39 ( the minimum BMI on which they'll do surgery) is going to negatively affect it.
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