Improve Your Quality of Life With Weight Loss Surgery

Many very obese patients who undergo bariatric or weight loss surgery are pleasantly shocked to find how much it improves the quality of their lives. Like most surgeries, weight loss surgery is a last resort for people who have tried to control their weight with diet and exercise and still haven’t lost the amount of weight they want to. Moreover, their weight has begun to impact their health in negative ways. Even young obese people suffer from Type II diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases, sleep apnea and other maladies because of their weight. After they undergo weight loss surgery Denver, these illnesses are either greatly improved or they’re resolved altogether. They can also breathe better and have new funds of energy to do things they couldn’t contemplate doing before, like playing sports.

There are a few types of weight loss surgeries, some more drastic than others. In lap band Colorado a band is placed at the top of the stomach, which forms a pouch. When the pouch is full it tricks the brain into thinking that the entire stomach is full. The food empties slowly into the rest of the stomach, then follows the normal route through the intestines. The patient loses weight fairly quickly.

The Roux-en-Y Colorado bariatric by-pass surgery a pouch is made of the stomach and attached to the jejunum, or the small intestine, so the rest of the stomach and all of the duodenum are bypassed. The duodenum is the lower part of the stomach that’s responsible for absorbing fats.

Another Colorado bariatric operation is the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch, which is a complex procedure which reconnects the small intestine, the digestive organs and the duodenum. The patient's food basically goes directly into the large intestine.

After any of the surgeries the patient will need time to recover. The doctor might start the patient on a liquid diet, then a soft diet before they’re ready to eat solid foods. There are some foods, especially fatty ones, that the patient won’t be able to tolerate well. Even as they lose weight they will still need to be on an exercise plan. They will have to stay on the modified diet and the exercise regime for the rest of their lives. Joining support groups with others who have undergone weight loss surgery Denver can help them adjust to their new life. But most people who chose weight loss surgery are happy, not only with their new bodies, but to be finally rid of the maladies that used to compromise their health.

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