Gastric sleeve for weight gain due to meds?

[aron 0]

Does Gastric sleeve help weight gain thats due to meds that you must stay on long term? I'm on meds that made me gain 70 pounds in 2 years and i cant lose more than 10 before i hit a wall. Would the Sleeve help me?

[Bufflehead 6,358]

That depends. If you can currently eat less than 1,000 calories per day for a sustained period of time and you are gaining weight on that, then probably no or not much. You'd be better advised to look into gastric bypass or DS, with their malabsorption of calories surgical components.

If you can't eat under 1,000 calories for sustained amounts of time (most people can't choose to do that without surgery), or you can do it for moderate stretches and find that you do lose weight then, then yes, gastric sleeve surgery will likely help you. If the meds are affecting your metabolism, or causing you to retain tons of Water, the surgery may not help as fast as it helps other people, but it should help.

These are all definitely issues you would want to talk about with your surgeon when looking over your options. Good luck!

[aron 0]

Thanks fort there response. I'm on SSRI meds that I'm unable to do without

and the only one that works well for me is prozac. Ice been on integers

that either did not work or had weight gain where I was 290 which is 20

more than I am now.

I'm just starting out into looking at this as an option.

Ice never been able to maintain a diet of 1000 calories a day... Not even

close. The meds make you both hungrier and slow you ability to lose weight.

Do people on this forum have experience with doing our at least researching

doing sleeve in Mexico... Which is not because I'm cheap but rather it's

because i don't have the money to do it here in the states..

Thank you for your help

[aron 0]

Thanks for the response. I'm on SSRI meds that I'm unable to do without

and the only one that works well for me is prozac. Ive been on other meds with much higher weight gain.

I'm just starting out into looking at this as an option.

Ive never been able to maintain a diet of 1000 calories a day... Not even close.

The meds make you both hungrier and slow you ability to lose weight.

Do people on this forum have experience with doing or at least research doing sleeve in Mexico... Is that really crazy to think about?

not because I'm cheap but rather it's

because i don't have the money to do it here in the states..

But if Mexico is considered crazy if like to know.

Thank you for your help