Severe obesity is one of the most serious stages of obesity. You may often find yourself struggling with your weight and essentially feeling as if you’re trapped in a weight gain cycle. In addition, you most likely have attempted numerous diets – only in the end, to see your weight continue to increase.
Bariatric/Obesity/weight loss surgery is an effective treatment option for patients suffering from morbid obesity. It also causes significant improvement in obesity-related co-morbid conditions like Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and joint pains, sleeping disorders like sleep apnea, heart diseases, infertility issues, and several others.
It is performed using the laparoscopic technique (Keyhole Surgery-minimally invasive) and most of the patients start walking around on the same day of the surgery. The surgery causes weight loss because it restricts the amount of food the stomach can hold-causing less absorption. Usually, the weight loss surgeries are performed using minimally invasive techniques because it causes early recovery and less pain and the cosmetic outcomes are excellent.
You should consider bariatric surgery if:
General efforts to lose weight with diet and exercise have mostly been unsuccessful.
If Your body mass index (BMI) is 40 or more.
General efforts to lose weight with diet and exercise have mostly been unsuccessful.
If your BMI is 35 or more but you also have weight-related health problems such as type-2 diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.
If you are a post-puberty teenager, your BMI is 35 or more, and you have serious obesity-related health problems.
Treatment
Today, most types of bariatric surgery are performed laparoscopically. There are three types of bariatric surgery
Gastric bypass surgery: This procedure is the most common method of gastric bypass and it works by decreasing the amount of food you can eat at one sitting and reducing the absorption of nutrients.
Sleeve gastrectomy : It involves removing about 80% of the stomach, leaving a long, tube-like pouch. Smaller stomach can't hold as much food produces less of the appetite-regulating hormone which may lessen your desire to eat.
Biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch: This is a two-part surgery. The first step involves performing a procedure similar to sleeve gastrectomy and the second surgery involves connecting the end portion of the intestine to the duodenum near the stomach.
