| The simpler term for gastric bypass is ‘stomach | | | | Gastric bypass will change the way you eat pretty |
| stapling’, and its purpose is to make you eat less. It | | | | permanently. Instead of the few big meals that you |
| works to achieve extreme weight loss by creating a | | | | might have been used to, after stomach stapling you |
| small pouch in the stomach through stapling up parts of | | | | will find yourself needing to eat perhaps eight or nine |
| it, in order to reduce the amount of food you can | | | | small meals a day. The surgically created pouch |
| consume. If you could earlier consume the big triple | | | | doesn’t allow you to eat food and drink a liquid at |
| burger meal, post-stomach stapling you will probably | | | | the same time: you can do one or the other. |
| only manage a cup of tea. Your body is consuming | | | | Things that could go wrong |
| less calories and the pouch allows digestive processes | | | | There are additional risks as well, one of which is the |
| to bypass the small intestine, so that nutrients from | | | | possibility that the pouch could stretch and expand to |
| food aren’t absorbed. | | | | the original size of the stomach. The food pouch |
| Is it for you? | | | | grows to twice its capacity in just two months and |
| If you’re just looking to lose weight in specific areas, | | | | it’s possible that it might stretch further. The |
| you could try liposuction or a tummy tuck; a gastric | | | | stomach stapling could come apart, having the same |
| bypass is for those 100-pounds-overweight who have | | | | effect: stomach expansion to original size. If there are |
| unsuccessfully tried to diet. Patients are typically | | | | leakages, the acid content from the stomach could |
| between 15 and 65 and need to understand the | | | | leak onto other organs, damaging them seriously. Also, |
| psychological risks involved in coping with what could | | | | if the contents of the stomach move too quickly |
| be an entirely changed body image. Obesity can be | | | | through the small intestine, you might find yourself |
| dangerous and this makes the gastric bypass an | | | | reeling from nausea, perspiration, and diarrhea and so |
| essential surgery for many people, not just a cosmetic | | | | on. Patients sometimes develop gall stones and |
| one. | | | | develop complications such as hernia which need |
| No pain, no gain | | | | further follow-up operations; remember that corrective |
| Stomach stapling, although simple-sounding, is a | | | | procedures come with their own risks. |
| complex surgery and you need to be prepared for | | | | Chiseling away |
| possible pain, major swelling and post-operation | | | | After the extreme weight loss surgery, you might be |
| hospitalization. Many of the nutrients that you take in | | | | 100-200 pounds lighter, but you’ll still have skin |
| with your food are not absorbed after stomach | | | | enough for the big size that you once were. Gastric |
| stapling; in the long run this could make you anemic. | | | | bypass usually needs to be followed by some kind of |
| Later, it could put you at risk for osteoporosis and | | | | body contouring procedure for excess skin removal. |
| bone diseases. You might need to regularly take pills or | | | | This is an additional cost that you might not have |
| dietary supplements. Many patients of gastric bypass | | | | factored in when considering stomach stapling, but |
| need to stay on special diets through their lives. After | | | | it’s likely to crop up. The body contouring surgery |
| your stomach stapling surgery, foods rich in sugar and | | | | also has some risks and requirements needed, so |
| fat are likely to make you feel uncomfortable. | | | | before deciding on the gastric bypass, you should |
| Small and constant | | | | probably consider the body contouring too. |