Bariatric Surgery for Morbidly Obese Sleep Apnea Sufferers

Many people with morbid obesity suffer from sleep apnea.

Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition which occurs when breathing stops as the soft palate at the back of the throat collapses and closes the airway during sleep.

The more your body weight, the greater is the amount of fat pressing down on your chest and lungs.

Morbid obesity results in fat deposits at the tongue and neck. Sleep apnea can occur regardless of age and gender but it is severe in obese people.

Bariatric surgery is the procedure to reduce morbid obesity. Surgery is the option for people who are severely obese and cannot lose weight by traditional ways. Bariatric surgery reduces overall excess body weight and fat deposits in the tongue and neck.

The operation includes weight loss by restricting food intake and in some operations, interrupting the digestive process. According to the clinical data, sixty percent of patients who are undergoing bariatric surgery have sleep apnea.

According to the research, obstructive sleep apnea was resolved in 85.7 percent of patients who have undergone bariatric surgery. If you want to go for bariatric surgery, you must be morbidly obese.

Medical conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, gastro esophageal reflux disease, asthma, low back pain, gallbladder disease and degenerative disk disease are reduced after bariatric surgery.

The quality of life will be improved. The patients can be able to do the things such as going to shop and playing with children which was not possible before the surgery.

Complications with bariatric surgery:

Patients who undergo bariatric surgery sometimes lose more than 100 pounds in weight. Some reach normal weight while some remain overweight although less overweight than before the surgery.

Obese people who opt for bariatric surgery, is not an easy option for them. The surgery includes pain and side effects. After the surgery, the patients should change their eating habits. After the surgery, patients may remain at a lifelong risk of nutritional deficiencies.

Severe obese people must be hospitalized before undergoing bariatric surgery to lower the risks of surgery.

If the patients have higher motivation to lose weight and reduce the sleep apnea, they can easily manage the post operative requirements of behavior therapy and diet. Surgery will be successful in those people and can solve their weight and obesity problems.

Decide whether bariatriac surgery is right for you?

• You are morbidly obese and unlikely to lose weight with non surgical procedures?
• You want to lose weight and improve from your sleep apnea condition?
• You know about the surgery and its effects of treatment?
• You know about the diet to be followed, complications of the surgery and failures?
• You are aware of the changes in life after the operation?

If you are thinking about the surgery for weight loss and improve sleep apnea condition, you should know what the surgery involves.

Answer to the following questions and decide whether bariatric surgery is right for you or not. There is no guarantee for any surgery. You should have commitment and cooperate for behavior change and diet for success of the surgery.