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What weight loss surgery is recommended for my body type to continue losing weight? (Photos)

ojtJun 11, 2022
I been working and losing weight, what would up guys recommend for my body type?

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Jorge Maytorena, MD

Due to your body mass index, you would be a candidate for a gastric sleeve, the minigastric is for patients with morbid obesity and who have metabolic disease. You have a BMI of 30, you are in the lower limit allowed for a bariatric procedure.

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Jorge Maytorena, MD

You are definitely a candidate for a gastric bypass, do not have liposuction, it will not help you at all, your body mass index makes you a candidate for weight loss surgery.

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Jorge Maytorena, MD

In the United States, with that body mass index, it is very difficult for medical insurance to approve you for weight control surgery. However, in Mexico, with the same body mass index of 35, you are already a candidate for gastric sleeves, the new guidelines ASMBS all patients over 30 are...

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Jorge Maytorena, MD

Colic-type pain may occur immediately after eating, this may be due to candy cane syndrome, and it is when the union of the stomach with the intestine, the intestine grows and appears u. candy cane

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Jorge Maytorena, MD

With that weight, according to your height and weight, you have a BMI of 37.4, which is considered grade II obesity, plus joint pain, sleep apnea, you are a candidate for weight loss surgery.

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Jorge Maytorena, MD

The gastric bypass lasts approximately 10 years, and since you do not have a thyroid it is more difficult to lose weight. I recommend that you try to follow a keto diet, do intermittent fasting, and exercise daily, this for 6 months, you will not see. a quick change but it will be the beginning...

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