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About
Benefits
The
benefits of having this surgery must be examined in comparison to the
risks
associated with any major abdominal or gastric surgery. Since you are
interested enough to do the research, here's what we already know.
We'll help you explore what might be changed in your life if you take
the journey, but it will be you and your loved ones who determine whether
the journey must be taken. You'll come to us with things you want to change,
things you want to forget, and things you want to leave behind. Your journey
will allow
the development of a tool to help you lose weight, but is not the "magic
fix" designed to cure all things. Your benefits will be real
and successful only as long as you understand what is necessary for that
success. We'll help you learn.
Many of the diseases associated with morbid obesity are caused or worsened
by the excess weight itself. These are called "co-morbidities"
and are very personal. If you have them, they undoubtedly affect the quality
of your life. These diseases include, but are certainly not limited to:
We're not sure which of these might affect your life the most, or which
might possibly be improved by having this surgery. That's a decision you
can only make from the other side. We think the potential
benefits will be many and lifelong, but you have to look to yourself
for those answers. Being able to live your life is probably as important
a benefit as any we've heard from our patients. We're hoping your success
as you take the journey will improve aspects of your life as yet unrecognized.
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