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Lucky us that we had the wake up call and it wasn't a stroke or worse. We're splitting hairs .... You said it 100% right .... Untreated OSA is just bad stuff ! All done ... And all said from experience with no medical expertise at all! |
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Semper Fi Tom |
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Having worked with patients before and after bariatric surgery, I think the choice to have surgery should be undertaken only when all other non surgical options have failed. Unfortunately too many patients do not make a serious attempt to loose weight with diet and exercise, and they lack the proper support to ensure success with diet and exercise, before choosing weight loss surgery. The middle step pharmacotherapy is another problem area there are few good drug choices for promoting weight loss. The drugs with the best chance of working are the very addictive, amphetamines. |
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With all surgery comes risk. Many common and what people call everyday surgeries also carry a significant risk for mortality and morbidity. Many even more so than bariatric options. What are the risk associated with morbid obesity? Obesity is an epidemic in the USA. Just look around. I would argue that in more cases than not, this epidemic is fueled by the old school advice that is handed out by the average PCP and NUT. Anyway... time to close this thread. We are not here to treat obesity. There are millions of forums for that. |
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