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Occasionally, gastric sleeve surgery is done if you’re overweight but don’t meet the criteria for obesity, but you have a significant health condition related to your weight.
Given this wide variation, it’s best to research and talk to several surgeons and operative centers to find one you’re comfortable with — and one that fits your budget.
You can read about other patients’ experiences with weight regain after having gastric bypass surgery
Studies comparing different weight-loss programs have found that most programs result in weight loss in the short term compared with no program. Weight-loss differences between diets are generally small.
Faster weight loss can be safe if it's done right. Examples include a very low-calorie diet with medical supervision or a brief quick-start phase of a healthy-eating plan.
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What's involved? Does the plan provide guidance that you can adapt to your situation? Does it require buying special meals or supplements? Does it offer online or in-person support? Does it teach you how to make positive, healthy changes in your life to help keep up your weight loss?
Though this surgical procedure often leads to a greater amount of weight loss than other types of bariatric surgery, it’s not performed often, as it can increase the risk of nutritional weight bypass surgery deficiencies and complications related to surgery, notes the NIDDK.
The food you eat will no longer go into some parts of your stomach and small intestine that absorb food. Because of this, your body will not get all of the calories from the food you eat.
Follow your bariatric doctors’ advice to the letter – this may sound obvious, but you’d be surprised how many patients follow their doctors’ orders for the first year or two then slowly start to falter. Effective
Gastric bypass is major surgery and it has many risks. Some of these risks are very serious. You should discuss these risks with your surgeon.
Gastric sleeve surgery is done using general anesthesia, which is medicine that puts you into a very deep sleep and requires a ventilator to breathe for you during the surgery.
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