 Proven Benefits
Improving Quality of Life
Diabetes after Bariatric Surgery
Fertility and Pregnancy after Gastric Bypass
Joint pain, arthritis and weight loss
Some medical conditions which improve after Bariatric Surgery
Improving the Quality of Life
Bariatric surgery can dramatically improve the quality of your life, give you new hope for the future, and change your attitude. It has benefits far beyond its most visible result — dramatic weight loss. After surgery, many chronic illnesses markedly improve. In fact, most post-surgical patients have discontinued medications previously required due to obesity-induced disorders.
Diabetes
Diabetes is a difficult illness resulting in numerous secondary medical problems including heart attacks, kidney failure, vision loss, infections, and severe vascular disease. Fortunately, long-term weight control and a dramatic improvement in diabetes can often be experienced after bariatric surgery. In one large study published in the Annals of Surgery, 191 patients were followed over a period of four years after undergoing laparoscopic gastric bypass. According to this study, after weight loss, 83 percent of these patients had normalization of fasting blood glucose and hemoglobin A1C and were able to completely eliminate the need for diabetes medication. Additionally, among those patients who were diabetic for less than five years, 95 percent had no measurable evidence of residual diabetes after surgery-induced weight control.
Fertility and Pregnancy
Significant long-term weight loss offers hope to many women who are battling with infertility and other hormone imbalances, since dramatic weight loss after bariatric surgery often results in improvements in obesity-related hormone abnormalities.
Joint Pain, Weight Loss and Orthopedic Surgery
For patients who do not yet require surgery to replace damaged joints, substantial weight loss has been shown to alleviate the debilitating symptoms of osteoarthritis. Unfortunately, not everyone will have resolution of his or her knee pain after weight loss since joint cartilage lost after years of obesity will never regenerate. This damage may result in the need for surgery to repair or replace the damaged joint. A recent Mayo Clinic study found a significant improvement in physical rehabilitation after joint replacement in patients who had previous weight loss due to gastric bypass.
For those people who are severely obese and are suffering from chronic joint pain, surgery for weight control may be an option.
Some Medical Conditions with proven improvements after gastric bypass surgery
- Diabetes
- Sleep Apnea
- Heart Dysfunction
- High Cholesterol
- Arthritis
- Depression
- Infertility in Women
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- Male Impotency
- Chronic Headache
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Venous Insufficiency (circulation problems of the leg)
- Leg swelling
- Heartburn
- Hypertension
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