Gastric Sleeve Surgery
The struggle of being obese are a burden, all you want to do is remove this extra weight from your body. Obesity can restrict your movement and pose a massive risk to your health. And if you’ve, like many others you have tried and failed considerably with diet and exercise programs, Gastric Sleeve Surgery is the answer to your predicament.
Gastric Sleeve Surgery in Tijuana is becoming a popular choice for obese patients. Upon approval, you may qualify for your weight loss surgery to be performed as soon as 14 days, or you can schedule as far as one year out.* And Be Slim Bariatrics guarantees you a safe and successful weight loss surgery that will improve your quality of life and wellbeing and allows you to save 70% with our all-in inclusive and affordable packages.
*Depending upon health history and current BMI
The struggle of being obese are a burden, all you want to do is remove this extra weight from your body. Obesity can restrict your movement and pose a massive risk to your health. And if you’ve, like many others you have tried and failed considerably with diet and exercise programs, Gastric Sleeve Surgery is the answer to your predicament.
Gastric Sleeve Surgery in Tijuana is becoming a popular choice for obese patients. Upon approval, you may qualify for your weight loss surgery to be performed as soon as 14 days, or you can schedule as far as one year out.* And Be Slim Bariatrics guarantees you a safe and successful weight loss surgery that will improve your quality of life and wellbeing and allows you to save 70% with our all-in inclusive and affordable packages.
*Depending upon health history and current BMI
How Gastric Sleeve Surgery Works
Gastric Sleeve Surgery, also known as Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (VSG), is a bariatric treatment that reduces the size of the stomach by 75% – 80% and reshapes it into a tube-like structure that resembles a banana. Gastric Sleeve surgery alters your life and allows you to live a healthier and more fulfilling existence.
- Reduction in stomach size. Your stomach is substantially smaller, limiting the amount of food and calories you can consume.
- Appetite suppression. The ghrelin-producing portion of your stomach has been eliminated. Ghrelin is a hormone that creates the feeling of hunger.
- Improves Leptin levels. Leptin is a satiety hormone that makes you feel full and helps you stop eating.
- Gastric emptying is sped up. Solids and liquids flow fast from the stomach to the duodenum during gastric emptying.
Gastric Sleeve Weight Loss Expectations
Weight loss isn’t the only benefit of bariatric surgery. You can avoid the health hazards associated with obesity by having gastric sleeve surgery.
More importantly, Gastric Sleeve surgery is about correcting obesity-related health concerns like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, and coronary artery disease. Typically patients can expect to lose 70 – 80 % of excess weight from the gastric sleeve procedure,
- 60-80% of patients with type 2 diabetes achieve improvement or disease remission after they have gastric sleeve surgery.
- 80 to 85% of patients who have gastric sleeve surgery experience remission of their sleep apnea approximately one year after surgery.
- 30% of those who had the gastric sleeved performed decrease in depression at the time of surgery and 16.5% decrease six to 12 months after surgery.
- 77% complete remission of their high cholesterol
- 77% complete remission of their high blood pressure
Consider the following factors if you recently underwent gastric sleeve surgery in Tijuana and aren't getting the results you want:
Advantages and Disadvantages
Gastric sleeve surgery is a less invasive, safer, and more successful technique to lose weight. Some of the advantages include, but are not limited to:
- Overall improved quality of life
- Over 60 percent of patients will have remission of their type 2 diabetes after sleeve gastrectomy. (asmbs.org)
- Obesity-related health issues such as hypertension, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, PCOS, and depression are improved.
- When compared to other bariatric procedures, there is a lesser risk of vitamin or nutritional deficiency.
- At 12 months, sleeve gastrectomy achieves superior excess weight loss. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Simpler and only requires shorter surgery time compared to gastric bypass surgery.
- No tweaks are needed, unlike the Lap-Band treatment.
- Outside of staples, no foreign items remain inside the body
- Desire to eat decreases.
- It can be altered to a Roux-En-Y gastric bypass if desired,
Every type of weight loss surgery has its own set of drawbacks. The following are some of the downsides of gastric sleeve surgery:
How the Gastric Sleeve is Performed
Be Slim Bariatrics surgeons perform gastric sleeve surgery laparoscopically. A tiny camera is placed into your stomach and attached to a video display, enabling surgeons to see your stomach clearer while performing the surgery. The patients will be placed under anesthesia, which an anesthesiologist will meet with you before surgery to discuss. On an average, Gastric sleeve surgery should be completed within 60 to 90 minutes.
At Be Slim Bariatrics, our patient’s safety is our top priority. Before the surgery, a series of lab tests will be conducted to make sure that your body is ready for the surgery. Our staff will perform three leak test as well prior to your discharge to ensure patient safety.
