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Study - Weight-Loss Surgery Linked To Increased Suicide Risk

10/07/2015

Another OBVIOUS.

Reuters -

âThese findings suggest that more effort may be needed to improve access to mental health care services in these patients should they need them, and perhaps some screening in the second year and onwards,â Bhatti said.

During the first three years after surgery, 111 patients received emergency care for self-inflicted injuries, or roughly 1 percent of people in the study. While small, the risk of these emergencies was 54 percent higher after surgery than it was before.

Study - JAMA

Importance Self-harm behaviors, including suicidal ideation and past suicide attempts, are frequent in bariatric surgery candidates. It is unclear, however, whether these behaviors are mitigated or aggravated by surgery.

Objective To compare the risk of self-harm behaviors before and after bariatric surgery.

Design, Setting, and Participants In this population-based, self-matched, longitudinal cohort analysis, we studied 8815 adults from Ontario, Canada, who underwent bariatric surgery between April 1, 2006, and March 31, 2011. Follow-up for each patient was 3 years prior to surgery and 3 years after surgery.

Main Outcomes and Measures Self-harm emergencies 3 years before and after surgery.

Results The cohort included 8815 patients of whom 7176 (81.4%) were women, 7063 (80.1%) were 35 years or older, and 8681 (98.5%) were treated with gastric bypass. A total of 111 patients had 158 self-harm emergencies during follow-up. Overall, self-harm emergencies significantly increased after surgery (3.63 per 1000 patient-years) compared with before surgery (2.33 per 1000 patient-years), equaling a rate ratio (RR) of 1.54 (95% CI,â1.03-2.30; Pâ=â.007). Self-harm emergencies after surgery were higher than before surgery among patients older than 35 years (RR,â1.76; 95% CI,â1.05-2.94; P = .03), those with a low-income status (RR,â2.09; 95% CI,â1.20-3.65; P = .01), and those living in rural areas (RR,â6.49; 95% CI,â1.42-29.63; P= .02). The most common self-harm mechanism was an intentional overdose (115 [72.8%]). A total of 147 events (93.0%) occurred in patients diagnosed as having a mental health disorder during the 5 years before the surgery.

Conclusions and Relevance In this study, the risk of self-harm emergencies increased after bariatric surgery, underscoring the need for screening for suicide risk during follow-up.

Link - http://archsurg.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2448916

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Regain After Weight Loss Surgery.

04/17/2013

Left - Fitbloggin' 2012 Right - This Week - Lost the regain - Also, 3 pounds to my lowest weight.

Several years ago, a woman messaged on a weight loss surgery forum and told me that my weight chart resembled a roller-coaster and that she wanted to "help me get control." After a quick Google search -- I noted she was seeking a new client for her weight loss surgery coaching business and dumped her "friendship."

Friends do not pay friends to help them lose weight, maintain weight loss or to help them lose regained weight after weight loss surgery. If you are paying someone for your friendship, it might be time to redefine that friendship -- just saying. I suppose this changes if your friend happens to be a weight loss professional? But how often does that happen -- and how many weight loss professionals would potentially destroy a friendship with aligning with your weight loss journey?

Um. No. A professional would NOT.

Weight loss is personal.
It is something you choose for yourself when you are ready.
Weight loss is not something you can be talked into - nor shamed into.

Regain after weight loss surgery is also a very touchy subject. Countless bariatric patients go through it -- and less want to talk about it. But it seems like everyone wants to sell "us" something to fix it.

Let me repeat -

Weight loss is personal.
It is something you choose for yourself when you are ready.
Weight loss is not something you can be talked into - nor shamed into.

Yet it seems like the larger community wants "us" (the regainers) to feel shamed for regaining and wants to sell us another quick-fix.

Let us discuss: Regain is common. How much? Some is very typical. Sometimes even a lot of regain is normal. You do not have to be sold into another diet, quick-fix, or scam. You need to remind yourself why you had weight loss surgery to begin with --

...for your HEALTH.

Some good links on regain -