Weight Loss surgery is a major step. It’s often considered as the last ditch attempt for people who have struggled to bring their weight under control.

A man in Newport Pagnall, Berkshire, recently resorted to gastric bypass surgery at London’s Charing Cross Hospital in an effort to lose weight. Tim Daily did lose half his body weight, a total of some 12 stone. However, the after affects of the surgery have had a drastic and potentially life threatening effect on his health.

The number of patients struggling with obesity who submit to drastic, invasive surgical procedures has risen hugely over the last few years. Between 2003/4 there were 480 similar operations, a figure that has ballooned to 4,246 during 2008/9.

Tim Daily’s procedure involved a gastric band to reduce the size of his stomach and a gastric bypass that connects his new stomach pouch to his intestine. Complications with the procedure means he is now unable to eat or drink without massive amounts of pain-killers, and he has to be tube feed to keep him alive.

Tim believes that together with the well-reported success stories of bariatric surgery there are very many similar stories of medical complications and disappointments which just do not get reported in the media.

For Tim’s full story click here for video link to BBC Look East News.

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