Will I Need Surgery After a Gastric Bypass To Remove Skin?
Gastric Bypass patients that lose significant amounts of weight with their surgery will most likely need to have the excess skin removed some time after the gastric bypass. Normally the skin removal is done at least 1-2 years after the initial gastric bypass surgery.
A very common question that is commonly asked is, “is there any treatments or anything I can do after my gastric bypass to preserve the skin so that I don’t have to have it removed?” and the answer to that question is ‘not really’.
Most of the time when a gastric bypass is performed enough weight is removed that the skin is just unable to regain it’s natural fit to the body. So having the skin removed is a necessity and should also be factored in to your decision making process about having the actual gastric bypass done in the first place.
