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Patients should be instructed to seek immediate medical attention for red-flag symptoms including intractable vomiting, severe dehydration, acute abdominal pain, gastrointestinal bleeding, or recurrent hypoglycemia, which may indicate surgical complications requiring urgent evaluation by the bariatric surgery team
Over time, the body adapts to: Lower calorie intake Reduced hunger signals Altered satiety feedback When medication is stopped suddenly, these adaptations dont disappear gradually they often snap back quickly , creating a biological mismatch between appetite and metabolic capacity
Ongoing evaluation: Providers monitor response and adjust based on symptoms, weight loss, and lab results
This may include optimizing heart failure management, treating respiratory infections, adjusting asthma or COPD medications, or addressing sleep apnea with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy
These diagnoses comprise 11.3 percent of the U.S