YES! Your anatomy has changed;
therefore your medical and nutritional needs have changed.
Long-term
follow up with your bariatric team requires attention to several aspects of
care.
- Make sure
you are adjusting to your procedure.
- Assess
your nutrition intake to safely maximize weight loss and prevent weight gain.
- Discuss weight
loss progress.
- Evaluate
potential complications resulting from improper behavior or from surgical complications.
- Monitor
status of your comorbidities.
- Adjust
medications, if needed.
- Check
laboratory values.
- Answer any
questions or concerns you may have.
- The
follow-up visits may be with the surgeon, a physician assistant, a nurse practitioner,
and the dietitian.
- It is
important that you follow this long term care so that any problems or concerns
that develop over time can be addressed by your team.
- The team
is here to educate, guide, support, and motivate you continuously, so you can
achieve a healthy weight after surgery.