What Are The Health Hazards Post A Gastric Sleeve Surgery?
I am currently 6'2" 290lbs. Will the weight loss help me get off my blood pressure medicine, acid reflux medicine. Will it lower the risk of a blood clot or pulmonary embolism.
What will it do to my metabolism?
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Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query.
Noted the history and understood your concerns.
Gastric sleeve surgery is now an established procedure for controlling obesity and almost all the problems the obesity creates.
It will certainly help to reduce your hypertension and you may be off the medicines.
It is not yet certain about acid reflux problem, it may control or may increase the reflux problems.
It certainly helps avoiding blood clot formation and pulmonary embolism.
Other factors that are benefitted are:
Diabetes
Cardiac problems, dyslipidemia.
Sleep apnea.
Personal wellbeing, better appearance, social acceptance, increase in confidence level.
Metabolism:
There is improved metabolism as the intake of food is reduced, there are serial positive changes in the intestine related hormones to give weight loss and improve the metabolism of the body. This is a very complex mechanism and the studies are ongoing all over the world through international workshops and seminars.
I hope this answers your query.
Please feel free to ask for further queries if you feel that there is a gap of communication.
Wishing you all the best for successful surgery and the best results.
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Detailed Answer:
Yes, Gastric sleeve surgery helps reduce the risk of developing various cancers by causing weight loss. This weight loss is coupled with many other healthy lifestyle changes like increased exercise, healthier diet and quitting of many bad habits.