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If your Body Mass Index (BMI) is above 35 and you have at least one or two diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, osteoarthritis (rheumatism), sleep apnea syndrome, fatty liver, etc. If your Mass Index (BMI) is directly above 40, your age is between 18 and 65 and there is no obstacle to getting general anesthesia, then you are eligible for this operation.

A meeting is organized with our doctor during the time you apply for the operation. Then the laboratory phase is started and the necessary blood tests are done. Then, after abdominal ultrasound, chest x-ray and ECG examinations, your detailed examination is performed by our internal medicine, cardiology and chest diseases physicians.

If the patient has uncontrolled diabetes, gastric hernia or severe esophagitis due to reflux is detected in the endoscopy, it is more appropriate to perform gastric (stomach) bypass for these patients. If there is no problem in the examination and endoscopy of the patient, a tube stomach can be applied.

You can get on the plane as soon as you are discharged from the hospital.

With liquid foods for the first 1 month after the operation; the second month is fed with mashed foods. Solid foods are started under the control of our dietician at the beginning of the 3rd month. The aim here is not to make the patient lose weight quickly; it is to prevent the growth of the stomach volume by keeping it constant.

Although it varies depending on the person, since the operation is performed with a closed (laparoscopic) method and the hospital stay is shorter, the person usually takes the 4-7th day of the operation. Can return his day to his normal life.

Post-operative sleep apnea disease is recovered by 60%.

After the operation, 60% complete recovery is seen in high blood pressure.

Light exercises (walking, running, cycling, etc.) can be started 1 week after the operation. Surgery to heavy exercises 6-8. It is recommended to start in the week. In patients with very high body mass index, heavy exercise should be started later (after a reasonable weight loss).

Young patients generally do not experience sagging because they maintain their skin tension. Even if sagging is not general, it happens in certain parts of the body. The main problem starts after the ages of 30 – 40; because the skin loses its elasticity. Patients who experience sagging after weight loss are directed to the plastic surgery department after being followed for 12 months after their weight remains constant or for 2-3 years after obesity surgery. It is not recommended to have surgery for sagging in the period when the weight loss process continues.