CAN GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY FAIL TO PROVIDE ME WITH SIGNIFICANT WEIGHT LOSS?
Unlikely, but over the long term you could gain back weight. Undoubtedly, this surgery will give you dramatic weight loss results through the power to reject large volumes of food, and these results should last a lifetime. But this surgery’s ultimate success, to a large part, is dependent on you. Some patients in time can learn to “out eat” the bypass. These patients may cause significant stretch of the tiny stomach pouch to allow them to eat much more than is reasonable (these patients are always trying to eat to much at one setting). Some patients may not be able to shed the overeating of high sugar or carbohydrate foods. This is particularly seen in patients who dont have or eventually lose the “dumping syndrome”. These eating patterns will obviously cause weight regain as sugar items are quite easily passed and absorbed by the intestine and converted to fat by the body.
