Bariatric surgery

[djm4_lj]

From the_xtina and kightp:

The negative consequences of bariatric surgery, and why people who've had it tend not to talk about them. In fact, it's an interesting blog generally.

Comments

[jhg.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell.

So many sad, sad stories. And a salutary lesson to be aware of, too.


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[barakta]

It says a fair bit about some medical support communities as well as being an extreme specific case and terribly sad and indeed worrying.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

The book I'm reading at the moment - Tipping the Scales of Justice by Sondra Solovay - makes many of the same points. She also cites studies which say that weight loss surgery gives a patient in their 30s forty times the average risk of dying within two years (average being 1.6 per 100,000) and that up to 76% of surviving patients have not maintained their weight loss after 30 months. By way of comparison, losing weight by other methods apparently increases the risk of dying by a factor of 2.6, and 90 - 98% do not maintain the weight loss.

*sigh*

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

At my intake interview for the sleep disorder clinic Tuesday, the fellow who was evaluating me suggested that I consider bariatric surgery...to reduce a sleep apnea problem that hadn't been diagnosed yet.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, David. Two people in my office have had gastric bypass surgery in the past year. I worry about their continued health.