The Look Of Bypass

[Bedhead 158]

So I just had a really interesting chat with my nurse about WLS. She asked me all sorts of questions, like why I picked the sleeve, whether I had considered the other WLS options,etc.

I thought it was interesting because she's very thin and thin people don't usually show much interest in WLS. But then I looked at her really closely and realized: OMG she's bypass!

And sure enough she told me she'd gotten bypass a few years back. She had what I have come to think of as 'the look' of a bypass patient. Many of the people who are more than a year or two out from a bypass seem to have the same look- dry, parched looking saggy skin, aged teeth, extremely thinned hair ( we get that too but outs grows back within a few months to a year). It's mostly just a general look of being unwell.

Have you ever noticed this or am I just nuts?

It makes me so glad that with the sleeve people will most likely never be able to look at me and know I've had WLS.

[Amanda 3.0 140]

OMG, I have been trying to explain this to my husband, and wondering if it will happen to me. I have seen it in some VSG people as well though, IMO. But, most VSG patients seem to look very "fresh-faced" (compliment).

But yes, I know exactly what you are referring to and have been thinking of that the past few days.

[Julie76 251]

I know exactly what you are talking about. Everyone I have talked to that has had the bypass has resembled that description. Too bad they didn't pick the sleeve. It may have taken a little longer to lose all of the weight but I really think it is much healthier to slow it down a little more. With the sleeve our body takes everything it is suppose to from food and theirs just can't.

[CowgirlJane 14,260]

I know several people who had the gastric bypass and one of them did look that way, the rest looked really healthy to me.

[missmeow 156]

Yes, they don't have pink in their faces and the skin hangs differently. It's hard to explain, but it is something subtle but I can pick up on it. I've seen it on strict vegans as well. Personally, I think it is lack of proper Vitamin digestion which is why I am researching endlessly about this surgery.

[Crabadams72 20]

Yeah, I have seen this time and time again. I must say it is harder to detect in ethnic women though. I look out for the lollypop head look or a lot of sagging skin on darker women.