Bariatric Surgery – Weight loss surgery

The surgery will take about 1 hour 30 minutes

1. There is a reduction in stomach volume, causing people to feel full much quicker after the surgery
2. Hormonal changes such as reduced secretion of hunger hormones causes people to feel less hungry
3. Increased stomach motility, which allows food to pass stomach and intestine quicker after surgery

* Hospital stay 4 nights; hotel stay 1 night
* You are encouraged to walk as early as 3-4 hours after surgery
* The pain is easily manageable after surgery. Most patients take less than the recommended pain medication
* You can go back to work after 2-3 weeks and can begin exercising 4 weeks after surgery

The usual planning of weight loss:

• The first 2 weeks: 10-20 pounds; most patients lose about one pound a day
• The first 3 months: 35-45% of excess weight loss
• The first 6 months: 50-60% of excess weight loss
• The first year: 60-70% of excess weight loss
• Most people reach their lowest weight 12-24 months after surgery

• People with grade 3 obesity
• Patients with a body mass index greater than 27
• Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, joint disease or arterial hypertension, which developed on the background of obesity
• Patients who are unable to lose weight through diet or physical activity.

As with all surgical interventions, there are general contraindications:

• Violation of blood clotting
• Acute infectious diseases or chronic diseases in the acute stage
• peptic ulcer
• Oncological disease
• Pregnancy
• Acute cardiovascular failure.

Even at the stage of preoperative examinations, the doctor determines the presence or absence of contraindications.

Before the surgery (usually at the home country), standard tests are performed: blood test, ECG, fibrogastroscopy. If the attending physician deems it necessary, he may prescribe additional studies.

About a week in advance, it is recommended to stop eating sweets and starchy foods, drinking alcohol, and not eating fatty and fried foods. You should also drink at least one and a half liters of clean water per day.

On the eve of the bypass surgery, you can drink liquids and eat dinner for the last time no later than 12 hours before the start time of the operation.

The key to successful weight loss after gastric bypass surgery is a change in eating behavior. An individual nutrition plan is drawn up for each patient, a nutritionist works with him.

According to patients, after the operation, the feeling of hunger disappears completely. But you still need to support the body with nutrients. Therefore, doctors recommend drinking juices, making necks and taking vitamin complexes for 3 weeks. Then grated vegetables are added to the diet. And only after 2 months it will be possible to return to the normal food, but in much smaller quantities.

Since the operation is endoscopic, after 6 months you can conceive a child.

In Hermes clinic, the operation will cost $3200-3300;

In Emsey from $4000;

In Medicana the treatment package will cost from $5000 (not including the cost of staying at the hotel).

If the patient comes with a friend, then there is always the possibility of additional discounts, they are discussed separately. In the end, it turns out very beneficial for both.

The payment is not only for the operation itself but also for a five-day stay in the clinic and hotel. The fee includes five nights.

Day 1: arrival, hospitalization, preoperative tests, consultations. If the arrival in Turkey is late, then the consultations are postponed to the morning of the next day.

Day 2 – surgery. For 2 more days, the patient is in the clinic under the supervision of doctors. In general, the patient spends 4 nights in the clinic. For the last night, the patient is discharged and stays at the hotel, from where a transfer to the airport is organized for him.

The package also includes the preparation of an individual nutrition plan: a nutritionist works with each patient.

If necessary, the patient can stay in the clinic or in the hotel with an accompanying person (additional payment for this is not charged).

For patients of Beauty by Experts Medical, there is the possibility of lifelong online counseling. If for some reason the terms of the operation are postponed (for example, the patient became pregnant), then it can be scheduled at any convenient time within three years.

Beauty by Experts Medical cooperates only with those Turkish doctors whose reputation is impeccable.

One of them is Dr. Mehmet Deniz, a doctor with more than 17 years of practical experience,and a member of the professional associations of abdominal surgeons. He has performed more than 5000 surgeries. He was the first in Turkey to successfully perform a gastric bypass on a patient with type 2 diabetes.

Our medical coordinators will provide all the necessary information about the doctor of your choice.

It can also be found on the Internet: look at the resume of the surgeon, read reviews about his work. A preliminary online consultation will help to establish contact with a doctor even before arriving in Turkey.