Will I take medication after the operation? – Will I continue the medications I took before the operation?

All obesity surgeries, due to the strong catabolic stress, during the 18 months after surgery, impose the need for support with trace elements and vitamins.

Malabsorptive type procedures, due to the bypassing of the anatomical area of most of the stomach and duodenum, responsible for the absorption of iron and calcium, require the postoperative administration of the above supplements for the rest of your life.

This is not a disadvantage, since these procedures are also recommended for patients with metabolic syndrome and several other comorbid diseases which are present or likely to become present, and which are controlled by several drug combinations.

Complete control of metabolic syndrome and concomitant diseases after a malabsorption procedure gradually and definitively ceases the use of all these drugs.