Ali Sarac, MD

Hi There, 

Diets and exercises always hard to follow and stay focused. It is good that you are trying find solutions at an early age of your life before you get more obesity related health problems. 

My recommendations first would be diets and exercise because of your young age but you stated, that you have already done all that. Therefore second recommendation I have for you is Gastric Sleeve Surgery. 

Let me inform you about Gastric Sleeve Surgery; wıth this operation 70 to 80% of your stomach is taken out and this reduces the capacity of your stomach with this cut -out part the hunger hormone will be disabled. The name of this hormone is Ghrelin. You feel less hungry between meals because of the reduction of hunger hormone. Your feeling of fullness lasts longer. This helps changing eating habits and within a year. This is very fast and effective way of losing great amount of unwanted body weight. Most of the patients say they do not have the desires for the different foods that they used to love. They do not even want to eat because of the deteriorating taste of some foods. Among such foods are coke, some pastries and cookies.

If you do again weight in the future like in 15 or 20 years later, with Gastric Sleeve you would have another chance of weightloss surgery, which is Mini Gastric Bypass could be an option for later. 




I hope this informations helps you. Feel free to ask more questions about Gastric Sleeve Surgery.

Kind Regards, 

Hi There, 

Thank you for reaching out. Let me inform you about Gastric Sleeve Surgery; wıth this operation 70 to 80% of your stomach is taken out and this reduces the capacity of your stomach with this cut -out part the hunger hormone will be disabled. You feel less hungry between meals and your feeling of fullness lasts longer. This is a fast and effective way of losing weight.

My professional recomendation to you would be Gastric Sleeve. Of course it will be early to say if it is a good fit for you or not. There are other metrics we need to look into to see if this is the best option for you. 

Hope this helps you to decide and leads you to right direction.

Good luck in your journey.

Kind Regards,

Hi There, 

There are plenty of patients, who are scared to have any surgery done. The good part of most Gastric Sleeve surgery is minimally invasive and closed as it is a laparoscopic surgery in which smallest incisions are made around your belly and a slender tool with a tiny camera and light is being inserted into your stomach and everything is screened on a monitor while following the surgical steps that is planned beforehand. With Gastric Sleeve operation 70 to 80% of your stomach is taken out and this reduces the capacity of your stomach with this cut -out part the hunger hormone will be disabled. You feel less hungry between meals because of the reduction of hunger hormone. Within that 18 months you could lose about 70% of the unwanted body weight. 


As for Gastric balloon it is an edoscopic procedure and that would only help you to lose about 5% to 10% of your body weight. If this meets your expectation then you can try this option first.  




Inconclusion depending on your BMI value and the amount of weight you want to lose, the best option for you is Gastric Sleeve Surgery. 




I hope this information helps you

Kind Regards,

Hi There, 

First of all you are not alone, there are many people feeling same as you do but you are step ahead of them. Now that you have decided to have weight loss surgery you can change your life to be better and healthier.

High Blood Pressure and Gerd is common on most patients. There is couple options for you Gastric Sleeve or Mini Gastric Bypass these options depends on your Gerd levels and medications you use. It is important for us to know the types of pills and how much mg of each pills you use daily. 

Then we can decide which treatment would be the best option for you. 

Hope this helps you,

Kind Regards, 

Great Question,

It is important that you quit smoking for at least 1 month prior your surgery even if you are self paying for the operation. Smoking increases the risk of the surgery, one of the complications would be not healing fast enough and your stitches won't be able to attach easily after the surgery. We do not recommend patients to start smoking for about 8 weeks after the surgery. 

I hope this answers your question. 

Kind Regards,