Enjoying a healthy weight is vital to our physical and mental wellbeing. At times, many of us experience weight gain but are able to manage this through diet and exercise. For some, however, increased weight can develop into obesity – a condition that can become debilitating and even life-threatening.
Make an informed decision about whether weight loss surgery is right for you
Occasionally, traditional weight control and management may no longer provide workable results. If you’ve exhausted all other weight loss options, you might be considering weight loss surgery.
Your weight loss surgery decision
Spire Murrayfield Hospital’s Weight Loss Surgery offers the advice, treatment and support you need to make a major change in your life. Our specialist bariatric (weight loss) surgeons provide a range of up-to-the-minute treatments tailored to your individual clinical needs, including gastric banding and bypass surgery.
Gastric banding involves an inflatable band being fitted, usually laparoscopically (key hole), around the upper end of the stomach. The band restricts the amount of food you can consume at any one time, giving the feeling of being full, quicker. While this procedure can be carried out as a day case, it tends to require a one-night stay in Hospital.
With a gastric band, weight loss is achieved through supportive alterations to diet and lifestyle. While it is a reversible procedure, it is typically a life-long commitment to your personal weight loss. As such, you will be seen six months after surgery by our specialist team to provide ongoing dietary advice and support. A post surgery, one-year follow-up is included in the initial surgery cost of this procedure. After a year, subsequent visits to meet the team for consultation, check-up and blood tests, are charged on a case by case basis.
Gastric bypass is a procedure whereby the stomach is intersected to form a greatly reduced stomach pouch. This restricts the amount of food you’re able to consume. A bypass is formed from the pouch direct to the small intestine. Food, therefore, avoids the main part of the stomach and parts of the small intestine.
This procedure requires a longer stay in hospital, so that we can monitor your recovery and provide appropriate after-care. You will then receive a check-up one year after surgery, which will involve blood tests to monitor your nutrition levels. Because gastric bypass encourages malabsorption, your body may not receive requisite nutritional levels so we can recommend ways you can avoid this through both diet and multivitamin intake.
Spire Murrayfield’s designated Weight Loss Clinic offers comprehensive care, based in the comfortable, clean and safe surroundings of our private Hospital grounds.
Our team
Our Weight Loss team includes Specialist Consultants Andrew de Beaux and Bruce Tulloh; Radiologist Dilip Patel; Clinical Psychologist Carol Sutherland; our dietician; Nurses Lorna Hunter and Davina Robertson and Anaesthetists Mike Fried and David Cameron.
Our multidisciplinary team-led approach to care ensures that your consultation, treatment and after-care are carried out by experts in their field. With our clinical expertise on hand, you can make an informed decision about whether weight loss surgery is right for you.
For more information or to make an appointment call 0131 316 2507 or visit www.weightlosssurgeryscotland.com.