Frequently Asked Questions

Before the surgery, you cannot say with 100% certainty whether a patient will have a prolapse problem after losing weight. However, there is a high probability of sagging after surgery in people who have too much excess weight to lose according to their ideal weight.

After the surgery, especially starting from the 3^rd month, there is a hair loss problem that lasts for 2-3 months on average. This is especially true in the patients having iron, biotin, zinc and selenium deficiencies. Therefore, it is important to use vitamins especially in the first 3 months after the surgery. Vitamins found to be deficient in controls should be supplemented. Hair loss is not permanent. Weakened hair strands break and there is no problem in the hair root.

If the patient does not have weight-related resistant diabetes, if there is no gastric hernia and severe reflux in the endoscopy, gastric sleeve is recommended. Bypass should be preferred more in patients with obesity disease due to excessive sugar consumption. For those who have a sleeve gastrectomy and gain weight again, bypass is preferred as revision.

In order to check whether there is a leak or not, a blue dyed liquid is given during the surgery and a control film is taken one day after the surgery, if no leakage is detected in this test and film, and then there will be no leakage.

Not making the stomach smaller than necessary during the surgery reduces the risk of leakage, and additionally suturing the stomach part that was is during the surgery reduces the risk of leakage.

After you are discharged from the hospital, it takes an average of 1 week for you to get used to the new process after the surgery, for your stitches to go away and for your body to be completely discharged from anesthesia. Therefore, all our patients can return to work 1 week after the surgery, unless there is an unusual situation.

The probability of using vitamins for life after both gastric sleeve and bypass surgery is very, very low. If there is no vitamin deficiency after the 3^rd month in the controls, the vitamin support given as a supplement is discontinued.

You can start walking about 1 week after the surgery. After 1 month you can swim and ride a bike. You can start heavy sports after 2-3 months.

You will lose weight quickly in the first 3-4 months of the surgery, but your weight loss can pause in between. This period lasts about 2-3 weeks, and in some patients up to 6 weeks. You should not worry and panic during this period, as this is a situation we have been waiting for. If you do not disrupt your diet after surgery, you will continue to lose weight.

You will have pain for the first 3 hours after the surgery. This pain will be minimized with strong painkillers. You can have nausea and vomiting on the day of surgery. You can bleed from your mouth during vomiting. This is what we expect. On the 2^nd day, you will only feel occasional pain at the surgery site. Nausea and vomiting can rarely occur. On the 3^rd day, you will return home very comfortably. In some patients, nausea can subside and continue up to the 1^st week.

Drinking coffee after surgery does not harm the stitches in your stomach; drinking coffee can increase gastric reflux and increase fluid loss from the body, so we do not recommend coffee consumption for 2 months after surgery.

We do not recommend that our patients become pregnant for the first 12 months after surgery, for their own and their children’s health. We recommend the surgery to people who plan to have surgery after pregnancy, when they finish the breastfeeding period, otherwise we do not perform obesity surgeries during breastfeeding.

You should come to the hospital at least 1 day before the surgery and have your endoscopy and other analyzes done. After the anesthesiologist and other units deemed necessary evaluate you, the operation is performed when approval is given. On the 2^nd day of the surgery, a control film is taken and liquid foods are started to the patient. On the 3^rd day, the hospital is discharged. So you stay in the hospital for 2 nights.