Will a Gastric Sleeve help my underactive thyroid condition?

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Ali Solmaz, MD · Answer

A gastric sleeve won’t directly "cure" your underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism), but it can help improve how your body responds to it. Since weight loss can enhance overall metabolic function, many people with hypothyroidism find that their symptoms improve after surgery. However, you’ll likely still need thyroid medication, but the dosage may need to be adjusted as you lose weight.
Since hypothyroidism can slow metabolism and make weight loss more difficult, working closely with your doctor to monitor thyroid levels after surgery is important. Some people also experience better energy levels and fewer symptoms like fatigue once excess weight is lost.

Pablo Garcia, MD · Answer

Hey, Thank you so much for your questionOf course, the gastric sleeve will help you lose weigh but anyway you will need to keep monitoring your thyroid condition and doing your treatment.Hope my answer helped you

Ariel Ortiz, MD, FACS · Answer

The Gastric sleeve surgery may help  to lessen  the amount of thyroid medication required or  improve thyroid  control, but the effect will be limited to this only.  The sleeve will help you lose weight, but you will still need to have your thyroid condition monitored.

Mark Pleatman, MD (retired) · Answer

If you have hypothyroidism, the medical term for underactive thyroid, the treatment is to take thyroid hormone in a dose high enough to lower your level of TSH, thyroid stimulating hormone, to a normal level.  Though hypothyroidism can cause weight gain, you can't "blame" your thyroid condition for your weight once the TSH is in the normal range.  Of course gastric sleeve is a great operation to help with weight loss in appropriate patients.  You may be one of them.

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