How is gastric bypass surgery done?
• Your caregiver may do surgery during a laparotomy or during laparoscopic surgery. During a laparotomy, one large incision (cut) is made in your stomach. During laparoscopic surgery, small incisions are made in your stomach. A laparoscope (tube with a camera on the end) and other instruments are put through the incisions. • During surgery, caregivers use staples to make a small stomach pouch that is shut off from the rest of your stomach. Then they connect the jejunum (middle part of the small intestine) to the new stomach pouch. When you eat, food “bypasses” the rest of the stomach and goes directly into the jejunum. When will I begin to lose weight? • Right after surgery, you will look and weigh about the same as you did before surgery. As you begin your new eating habits, you will begin to lose weight. The amount of weight and the speed at which you lose it depends on certain things. These include how well you follow your diet and exercise plans, how healthy you are, and how much y
