FAQ
surgery related
When is the right time for an obesity surgery?
The surgery is only recommended when the patient has tried unsuccessfully other means to lose weight, and has a high BMI or other obesity related disease. The patient must undertake a commitment to change their lifestyle in order to ensure that the surgery works in the long term.
What effects does the surgery produce in my body?
It depends on the type of surgery performed. Basically, it produces two effects on the body, a restrictive one, which limits the amount of food that can be ingested, and another one, malabsorptive, which diminishes the nutrient absorption by the digestive tract. There are other more complex hormonal effects which are responsible, for example, for improvement of diabetes after the surgery, even before losing weight.
So, if I have surgery, will I lose all the weight and not regain it?
Surgery is the best tool we have in order to guarantee a significant weight loss with a noticeable improvement of the diseases associated with your obesity. However, not all the patients achieve their ideal weight, and some of them recover some of the lost weight. Surgery is a help to lose weight and to recover a healthy lifestyle. Without this healthy lifestyle it will be difficult to keep the weight off.
Is there any technique that ensures not recovering the lost weight?
It is always possible to do more malabsorptive surgeries, but at a higher price for your health. You will lose weight but you will significantly increase the malnutrition risk, and finally your health and quality of life could be worse than before the surgery.