Mickece

Hi all of You. Som questions to be answered. It is true that Aspire doesn't force users to eat better or less to Loos their weight. As all the restricted methods does. But we have seen, with our 165 patients over a time span of 4 years, that the users of Aspire can and will change eating behavior. It all comes down to chewing everything eaten to a size less that the inner diameter of the A-tube. When doing that, time to eat will be very much longer and you get satisfied with a lot less food that before. You eat less! Junk food taste awful so you stop eating a lot of those things. Instead of forcing people to eat less with restrictive surgery, Aspire gives a person the possibility to change eating behaviour over time. I strongly believe that if you have decided to once and for all loose weight and never regain it, you can change your eating behaviour. Aspire giver a person a chance to see the result 3 times a day. If you chew the food enough you can flush 30% out after each meal. If you don't chew enough, you can't flush. That is the therapy on the physical side. But, long term you will need a lot of support and for some also therapy. That goes for all the other surgical methods too, by the way. In Sweden we had a program to support our users and a secret Facebook account. All users can get a mentor, if they want and support each other. EWL first year is now 65% and stable after 4 years. No complications for any of our users. But, some said that they don't want to continue the use so they removed the A-tube and are back on sqare 1. Completely reversable. The mot important difference from the other surgical procedudures.

If you bypass the usage with Aspire, you gain weight. With weight gaining, the tube will become too short, and you have 2 choices. Either you jump on to the train again, using the Aspire as it should be used. Or, you will be told by ur nurse it doctor that the tube have to come out. An extra control that the patient uses the device in the right way.

Hi, I'm from Sweden and Aspire is approved here and reimbursed since 2016 in Sweden. We started in 2012 with the first clinical trial and then a comparative trial GBP vs Aspire. The results are great and the method is safe. Up until now we have 165 patients using Aspire and no serious complications since 2012. Some have stopped the treatment and where happy they choose Aspire as it is completely reversible. Nothing is changed inside. The results are am EWL of 65% after a year and continuing weight loss year 2. Put Aspire in the right context as an alternative if you don't want or can't have one of the established surgical procedures. Before Aspire as a long term treatment, the only choice was to stay obese. Much worse if you ask me. All comments on Aspire as bulimic, a waste of food, the yuck factor and much more, is due to the fact that yo don't know about the method. We had those reactions at start in Sweden too. Today the talking is quite different most of the time. The method works, is safe and really helps people loose weight in a safe and stable way. It is controversy to bulimia as the chewing is so far from a bulimic eating. The diameter of the A-tube is 6mm. You translate that into inches. Nothing swallowed can be larger than that. It takes for ever to eat a meal so the portions are smaller. Where is the food waste now? When flushing the food smells like the food eaten 20 minutes earlier. So the yuck factor is more a question of what you where eating before. Don't see Aspire as a threat to surgical procedures, but a complement to those not wanting surgery. We have 4 years results coming up this summer in Sweden so we do have som long term results now. Still no complications....... Hope to be back to answer more comment on this forum soon. Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App