Patient Going Abroad For Gastric Bypass Surgery

Learns In The Hospital That The Surgery Is Not Needed

Gastric surgery is one of the most effective ways for overweight people to permanently lose weight – and because going abroad for surgery is becoming a norm, more and more overweight people opt for gastric surgery abroad.

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Brittany Myers, a mother of 3 from the UK, has been overweight and considering gastric bypass surgery for many years. She has finally decided to choose a hospital and set the dates for the surgery in 2016 – after a thorough research, Brittany chose a JCI accredited hospital in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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However, although the patient has been told by the doctors in the UK that she was suitable for the surgery, tests and doctor consultations performed at the hospital just a day before the patient had to be operated, showed that she could not – the patient had thyroid problems that had to be treated first.

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„In cases like this, when patient has thyroid problems, it is usually thyroid that is causing the person to be overweight – once the thyroid problem has been fixed, patients usually start losing weight and do not even need the surgery any more.

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This was exactly the case with this patient.“

- says Andrius Jonutis, General Deputy Manager at Kardiolita Hospital in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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„To be honest, I was quite unhappy at that moment – I took a couple weeks off at work and changed many plans in order to be able to go abroad for gastric sleeve surgery, just to find out that the surgery cannot be performed.

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Now as I look back, I see this as the best thing that could have happened – the doctors at Kardiolita Hospital did a full checkup and provided an extensive thyroid treatment plan.

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- says Brittany Myers from Manchester, UK.

8 months later I have lost 40 lbs without any major changes in my lifestyle, and the weight keeps on dropping slowly – I am extremely happy to know that I do not need the surgery.“

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- Andrius Jonutis adds.

„It is not uncommon to get enquiries for surgery from patients who know they have thyroid problems – we explain them that thyroid must be treated first, and only then the surgery can be considered, if needed. We welcome such patients for thyroid treatment plan – which usually saves them from having the surgery.“

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