Gastric Bypass Surgery Benefits, Risks, Cost of Gastric Bypass
What are the main risks after gastric bypass? What are the benefits of gastric bypass surgery? What are the adverse health effects of Roux gastric bypass? Who is a good candidate? You have so many questions that you have to ask yourself. Where do you start? Will your insurance cover this surgery? Is financing an option. What type of diet should you endure after your surgery?
Loosing weight is no easy task especially not if you are already morbidly obese. If you are already morbidly obese then the option for exercise routines is fairly limited which basically leaves you to a choice of diet plans. Luckily for anyone who is over weight, there are bariatric clinics all over the place that specialize in a procedure that will help you to loose the weight; and very quickly at that.
This procedure is known as the gastric bypass and although it comes in many different variations, it is still roughly the same procedure; or shall I say group of procedures. For starters, the gastric bypass needs to make the stomach smaller and while there are many different techniques to achieve this, they are all relatively similar in the fact that when accomplished you are left with a use able stomach area about the size of an egg or about 3 bites of food.
Once the stomach has been resized through the use of gastric staples, the surgeon will then move to the intestinal tract. This is where the procedures get there name and from here there are many different variables each with their own pros and cons. The surgeon will may a series of cuts through the intestines and then reroute them in various configurations. The ultimate goal of this reconfiguration is absorption deficiency. In other words, those 3 bites that you will be able to eat at any given time will barely be absorbed into the body as it passes through the digestive system.
In the end, you will end up loosing more than 60% of your pre-surgical weight by the end of the first year postoperative. Unfortunately the same malabsorption designed to stop you from absorbing fat also prevents you from absorbing the needed nutrients, vitamins and minerals so you will need to supplement these lost nutrients. There is also the chance of suffering from dumping syndrome as well as clogging up your digestive system, especially if you eat the wrong food which you will be specifically told to stay away from before undergoing the procedure.
The good news though is that as long as you qualify for the procedure, chances are that the insurance companies will pay the entire gastric bypass cost of $17,000 to $22,000 price tag for the gastric bypass procedure. There may be some strings attached and many hoops to jump through but in the end, they are required by law to pay if you qualify and eventually you will get them to sign over the check to the surgeon.
