What happens after 5 years of bariatric surgery?

Bariatric surgery is a procedure that is commonly performed on overweight and morbidly obese people. This surgery is taken as the last option when people have serious health problems related to weight and have not been able to obtain results with other measures such as eating a healthy diet and practicing a regular exercise routine.

There are studies that affirm that bariatric surgery estimates that a large percentage of patients manage to gradually lose their body weight in a period close to a year and stay healthy, implementing new lifestyle habits.

There is a possibility that the results of this procedure will be affected after 5 years and the patient will gain weight again because patients tend to neglect their diet and return to bad lifestyle habits.

Several factors can impair the results after this period, which has to do mainly with the care that the patient must have afterward, such as:

• Not following medical instructions
• Doesn’t treat anxiety problems
• Consumption of drugs and other substances
• Neglect in food
• Consume alcoholic beverages
• Variation in the metabolism of the person
• Failures in surgery
• Dilatation in the ducts.

Currently, there is no known treatment for weight loss that does not have the possibility of rebound or weight gain, bariatric surgery is no exception.

Bariatric surgery is not a quick fix, it is part of an ongoing journey toward health transformation through lifestyle changes.