Benefits of Surgical Weight Loss
- High Blood Pressure can often be alleviated or eliminated
by weight loss surgery
- High Blood Cholesterol in 80% of patients can be alleviated
or eliminated and in as little as 2-3 months post-operatively.
- Heart Disease in obese individuals is certainly more
likely to be experienced when compared to persons who are of average
weight and adhere to a strict diet and exercise regimen. There
is no hard and fast statistical data to definitively prove that
weight loss surgery reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease,
however, common sense would dictate that if we can significantly
reduce many of the co-morbidities that we experienced as someone
that is obese, we can likewise that our health may be much improved
if not totally restored.
- Diabetes Mellitus can usually helped and based upon numerous
studies of diabetes and the control of its complications, it is
likely that the problems associated with diabetes will be arrested
in their progression, when blood sugar is maintained at normal
values.
- Abnormal Glucose Tolerance, or “Borderline Diabetes”
is even more likely reversed by gastric bypass. Since this condition
becomes diabetes in many cases, the operation can frequently prevent
diabetes, as well.
- Asthma sufferers may find that they have fewer and less
severe attacks, or sometimes none at all. When asthma is associated
with gastroesophageal reflux disease, it is particularly benefited
by gastric bypass.
- Sleep Apnea Syndrome sufferers can receive dramatic effects
and many within a year or so of surgery find their symptoms were
completely gone, and they had even stopped snoring completely!
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease can be greatly relieved
of all symptoms within as littler as a few days of surgery.
- Gallbladder Disease can be surgically handled at the
time of the weight loss surgery if your doctor has cause to believe
that gallstones are present.
- Stress Urinary Incontinence responds dramatically to
weight loss, usually by becoming completely controlled. A person
who is still troubled by incontinence can choose to have specific
corrective surgery later, with much greater chance of a successful
outcome, with a reduced body weight.
- Low Back Pain and Degenerative Disk Disease, and Degenerative
Joint Disease can be considerably relieved with weight loss,
and greater comfort may experienced even after as few as 25 lost
pounds.
Weight loss surgery is a highly personal decision; it is also
a medical decision. Your doctor should discuss the risks and help you measure
the probability of benefits so that you can make an informed decision.