Fresco Decoy of USA shares her story of Lap Band surgery in India. I have been overweight since my early teens. Through the years I have been on every diet around including Weight Watchers, calorie counting, carbohydrate counting, Atkins. I have also been on diet pills which made me high strung and a little crazy. No matter what I did, I would initially lose weight but always gain it back plus a few pounds. I started researching weight loss surgery in Aug 2006 and fortunately came across a web site of Forur Healthcare Consultants for the Lapland surgery. I had a [...] Continue Reading…
Jane Doro from Norway shares her story of Gastric Bypass Surgery in India Prior to having Gastric Bypass Surgery I weighed 356 lbs., suffered from Type II diabetes, sleep apnea, hypertension and joint pain. This should have been enough to alert me to the death cycle I was on: but it was not. I fooled myself into thinking that I was relatively healthy and young enough to overcome my medical problems. Shortly after my 29th birthday, my 5-year old daughter asked me if I would live to see her children. I asked her “what do you mean?” She said, “Mom, if [...] Continue Reading…
Benefits, Risks and Costs of Gastric Bypass Surgery in India.What is Gastric Bypass Surgery?Gastric bypass operations combine the creation of a small stomach pouch to restrict food intake and construction of bypasses of the duodenum and other segments of the small intestine to cause malabsorption (decreased ability to absorb nutrients from food). Who is Gastric Bypass Surgery for?Generally, gastric bypass surgery is reserved for people, who are unable to achieve or maintain a healthy weight through diet and exercise, are severely overweight, and who have health problems as a result. Gastric bypass may be considered if:§ Patient’s body mass index [...] Continue Reading…
Lap band surgery is an exciting procedure because it puts a person on the road to losing weight. For those who are morbidly obese, lap band surgery is a step toward freedom because the weight loss that occurs in the beginning puts a person closer to being able to exercise since morbid obesity keeps them from doing so.Lap band surgery isn’t meant to make a person lose weight all by itself. The best results are achieved when a person follows the guidelines of the doctor. Those guidelines are rather reasonable, so they should not be too difficult to follow.Directly [...] Continue Reading…
Gastric Lap Band Surgery is becoming increasingly popular nowadays. This surgery is a weight loss surgery and is a great choice for the obese patients with high BMI rates. This Surgery has become a lot more popular as it has many advantages over the traditional bypass surgery.
Gastric Lap Band Surgery is also referred to as lap banding or lap band surgery. An adjustable silicone band is placed around the upper part of the stomach and people see considerate weight loss just by restricting the intake of food. The band around the stomach creates a small pouch that can hold [...] Continue Reading…