A WOMAN who had a gastric sleeve has opened up about a “horrible” side effect she has experienced.
Whitney Marie shared how both she and her sister Abby got a gastric sleeve and now are in pain when they sit down.
In a clip on her @itsmebadmom account, which has 16,000 views, she opened up after the weight loss aftermath.
She explained: “This is something that needs talking about.
“So if you’re thinking about having a gastric sleeve or you’ve got a gastric sleeve, whatever, can we just talk about bum bones?”
She said her sister had told her that all she wants for Christmas is a seat for the car to make her “bum bone more comfortable.”
Whitney continued: “Before when you sit down, completely fine.
“Now because all I am is skin and bones, when I sit down, oh my goodness, my bum bone sticks out.
“I could sit like me laying in a sunbed. When I lay down flat, my bum bone is touching the bottom first. So it hurts it.
“The bone is really digging in, so it like protrudes out a lot more.
“I don’t know if anybody else can relate to this. Please tell me if you can relate if you’ve had a gastric sleeve or whatever.”
Many people were to comment and give their views on Whitney’s dilemma.
One person said: “It’s definitely a sleeve thing it kills.”
Another added: “Omg i fell once and hurt mine and couldn’t walk for days it was horrific, so be careful.”
And a third added: “I had gastric bypass and I can’t sit on hard chairs anymore etc it hurts so bad!”
GASTRIC SURGERY
Around 15,000 British women undergo weight-loss surgery, both here and abroad, every year.
But it’s not without risk and only 12 months ago, 20-year-old Morgan Ribeiro, from south London, tragically died following botched gastric sleeve surgery in Turkey.
Gastric sleeves in Turkey cost around £2,000 to £4,000. In the UK, patients will shell out between £7,000 and £11,000 while having to meet strict criteria.
Around 10,500 bariatric procedures are carried out in Britain every year, according to 2024 data.
Those who don’t want to pay higher British prices go abroad, with data estimating that a further 5,000 of us travel overseas for weight-loss surgery annually.
The treatment works by removing a large part of the stomach and sealing up what’s left to create, in effect, a new, much smaller stomach.
It means that patients feel full sooner and cannot eat as much, often leading to significant weight loss.
According to the NHS, typical risks from having a gastric sleeve include chest or other infections, blood clots in the legs (DVT) with the risk of a clot passing into the lungs, complications with your heart, breathing or blood circulation.
We previously shared how a woman splashed £11k on a gastric sleeve in the UK and I lost 11 stone but ended up unable to WALK.
What is the difference between a gastric band, bypass and sleeve?
The three most widely used types of weight loss surgery are:
- Gastric band: where a band is used to reduce the stomach’s size, meaning you will feel full after eating a reduced amount of food
- Gastric bypass: where your digestive system is re-routed past stomach, so you digest less food and it takes less to make you feel full
- Sleeve gastrectomy: where some of the stomach is removed, to reduce the amount of food required to make you feel full
When coupled with exercise and a healthy diet, weight loss surgery has been found to be effective in dramatically reducing a patient’s excess body fat.
Recent research in the United States found that people with gastric bands lose around half of their excess body weight.
Meanwhile gastric bypasses reduce this excess body weight by two thirds post-op.
However, it’s not always successful – and patients still need to take responsibility for eating well and working out.
