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Gastric Bypass Plastic Surgery



Gastric bypass plastic surgery may be the second surgical phase that morbidly obese patients face following drastic weight loss due to a bypass operation. Estimates as high as forty percent of Americans being obese are keeping plastic surgeons busy all over the country with patients who have lost as much as half or more of their body mass over a two or three year period. While the risks of the bypass surgery can be lengthy, many who have struggled with a lifetime of obesity are saying enough to the struggle and are looking for help outside of them to finally shed the weight. The medical effects of obesity are well known including increased risks for heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, cancer and other diseases that can be deadly. Many people cannot fit into an airline seat and must order their clothes from special manufacturers. Facing the risks of an operation for gastric bypass plastic surgery pale in significance to the pain many have faced with a life of dragging around an extra person's body mass wherever they go.



In recent years tens of thousands of gastric bypass surgeries have been performed each annum. As a result there is sometimes one hundred or more pounds lost, with rare cases of three hundred pounds lost, but, and how can this be said delicately, the skin is still there of a five hundred pound person. In some surgical websites, there are pictures of skin that look like sheets hanging off the ones who have lost so much weight. Arms, stomachs, thighs and breasts can look quite unappealing, and so there is little doubt why so many then seek gastric bypass plastic surgery. But not only is there the cosmetic side to this issue, but gastric bypass plastic surgery is also sought because despite the weight loss, many with so much extra skin now face the same dilemma as before: finding it difficult to locate clothes that fit.



This surgery is so successful because of the genius of its design. The operation consists of a surgeon stapling the top of the stomach into a very small pouch and connecting the small intestine directly to that pouch, bypassing the remainder of the stomach altogether. The result is a two ounce pouch that can hold about a tenth of the food that the person was used to consuming before the surgery. In the months following the surgery, the weight starts dropping dramatically, and if the patient stays on the eating schedule and eats only what he or she is instructed to eat, the weight continues to drop until in many cases, there is almost half body mass lost by the end of the third year. But while exercise can be increased dramatically as the weight loss occurs, the excess skin does not disappear, no matter how many sit ups are done. So the gastric bypass plastic surgery is often not just an option to consider but a necessity, if a person is going to enjoy the full benefits of the weight loss.



There is, without a doubt, miraculous change possible for the obese person who has been approved for and goes through with the bypass operation. There are a lot of reasons why people are obese, and it is quite easy for a person with normal weight and may not really struggle with the issue day in and day out to cluck his tongue in disapproval and even possibly in disdain. Gastric bypass plastic surgery can often reshape a person's body in such a way that the tongueclucker might never know that the patient was formerly the one disdained. But the obese person often wrestles with inner demons that may be there for a lifetime, far beyond the time of looking "normal" again. These same inner struggles can be with the skeletal anorexic or the seemingly normal looking bulimic who hides her addiction with a flush of the toilet in the posh restaurant. Gastric bypass plastic surgery can perhaps turn the duckling into a swan but the pressure to eat when lonely or angry or worried or stressed is one that must be overcome, or the little stomach pouch will eventually become large again. From the pen of the psalmist David comes these appropriate words: "I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well." (Psalm 139:14)



There is no doubt that a person's weight that has reached twice the normal body mass needs some kind of intervention in his life and bypass surgery just may be one of the options that a person might want to consider, along with lap band surgery also. A person will have to understand that in most cases health insurance will not cover this thirty thousand dollar operation and even when that is over and the weight loss is completed, the gastric bypass plastic surgery that may also be required is also probably not covered under most insurance programs. But the person facing such a daunting challenge as morbid obesity should not throw up his hands in defeat, but rather seek out counseling programs that will help one deal with those inner powers that push a person to over eat. The world, with its screwed up system of values may judge overweight people as less than those who are svelte, but God does not judge that way, and His opinion is the only one that counts. Seek out a person who will help fill your mind with the words of God's love for you. It may be the beginning of a life changing difference.

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