View Full Version : People Who Get Gastric Bypass Often Develop New Addictions
Recently news programs have addressed the issue of people who have gotten gastric bypass surgery and the tendency to develop new addictions.
For the most part, these people usually have something in their life that has made them unable to control their appetite and food intake, and once the appetite problem is addressed they just switch to some other activity (or alcohol or drugs) because of that root problem.
I don't know what the medical profession is doing about this - if anything. It seems, though, that before people go through with gastric bypass they need to really get to the root of what is making them prone to appetite, cravings, and other causes of eating.
websurfpro
10-22-2007, 03:26 PM
O don`t agree with this one addictions have tp do with behavior and brain and not with grastric bypass, but it might be true somehow.
The reason the problem exists for people who couldn't lose weight without gastric bypass is this: They couldn't stick to a diet because they had something seriously stressful in their life that made them unhappy and caused their body to have stress reaction. The stress reaction makes fierce cravings and hunger because the body "knows" that high-energy food will alleviate the stress response.
So othen these people get the surgery, lose the weight, and no longer have the ability to eat as much as their body craved before.
They still, however, have the situation that was stressful in the first place; so they're still looking for something to make them feel physically better. That may be shopping, drinking, gambling, drugs, etc.
This news program mentioned how the medical profession has become increasingly aware of this problem with people who have the surgery and switch their addiction from food to something else.
attagirl
10-26-2007, 04:09 PM
I do agree that people who experience gastral bypass surgery do have other addicting things take place of the food addiction as mentioned by the previous post and for those reasons as well. However I do not really agree with the fact the they always fill it with another addiction. I have seen so many people think that this surgery is the answer only to a couple years later gain back most if not more weight then to begin with. I think that you have to change your whole perpective on food when you decide to do this. There are safer ways of losing weight and even had tried just the modified 3-4 week diet they give you to follow after surgery and it is helped to change my weight and life without the surgery.