Question:
Can you still have gastric bypass if you have an Ulcer?

   — Della B. (posted on January 16, 2005)

January 16, 2005
Probably, and knowing your surgeon he is awesome and used to be in pittsburgh. Are you a smoker? If so theres no way till you quit permanetely and forever. Smokers tend to get hard to treatr cronic ulcers...
   — bob-haller

January 16, 2005
I know that most surgeons will require the ulcer to heel before they will cut you open. Best Wishes
   — Shell G

January 16, 2005
Sure can.. as long as it is not currently bleeding, they will want to let it heal first. Matter of fact, my surgeon is bypassing my 2 ulcers! LOL! That is such a perk to my surgery!
   — MagickalMom

January 17, 2005
They found I had an ulcer just before surgery and my surgeon wanted it healed up as much as possible before doing surgery. Luckily mine was on the upper portion of my stomach so he said he would still do the surgery even if it was not 100% healed. If it had been on the lower part of my stomach he would not have done it until it was 100% healed up.
   — tazfan

January 17, 2005
I was a walking/talking ulcer factory. My ulcers were healed before surgery. Today, our docs here do an upper endoscopy and biopsy for h.pylori before all surgeries. They fix ulcers before surgery.
   — vitalady