Surgery: Gastric Sleeve

Surgeon: Dr. Ahmed Hatem

Pre-surgical weight: 95 kg

Post-surgical weight: 62 kg

Weight lost: 33 kg

The hero of this story is a young girl whose weight exceeded 95 kilograms. She did not surrender to that excess weight or wait till suffering complications of obesity. Instead, she knew the importance of paying attention of her weight.

The most significant reason for the importance of weight is health. Being over weight is a health problem, and it can affect you in several ways:

1- Excess weight can lead to multiple health problems associated with obesity, which are a group of diseases and symptoms that reduce the quality of your life, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, sleep apnea, infertility, osteoporosis, and many others.

2- Excess weight also has multiple psychological drawbacks, as obese people sometimes suffer from depression or lack of self-confidence. They may even face bullying in their daily lives, which may deepen their despair.

3- Excess weight loses you a lot of good opportunities during different lifetimes, such as a suitable life partner, a suitable job, the choice of what to wear, even the hobbies that you can practice in your spare time.

Your weight may affect your health without being aware, so you must take care of your weight and consult Dr. Ahmed Hatem, consultant bariatric and laparoscopic surgeon.

Therefore, this hero made the most important decision in her life, which was performing bariatric surgery. After searching for the best and most skilled bariatric surgeons, she hung to the reputation of Dr. Ahmed Hatem. She was fascinated by his patients' encouraging stories and watched many of their recordings uploaded to his YouTube channel. During which she saw the difference in their appearance and health, and listened to them describing the care of Dr. Ahmed Hatem in following up on his patients, providing a nutritionist, and how they were able to maintain their ideal weight without complications.

Also, his uniqueness and distinction of utilizing single-use surgical tools drew her attention that she would not be at risk of infection with various diseases, such as hepatitis B and C. That was the major evidence that Dr. Ahmed Hatem follows the latest international safety methods that raise the efficiency of the surgery.

Therefore, she had a confident decision to join the list of Dr. Ahmed Hatem’s heroes and went to his clinic for medical advice. He studied her health condition, determined the degree of her obesity, and explained to her everything simply. 

She had Gastric Sleeve surgery, where all the steps were done exactly as mentioned to her. Dr. Ahmed Hatem reduced the size of her stomach to become about only 20% of the total volume. Our hero did not feel any pain nor suffer any complications that would have occurred to patients of other inexperienced surgeons.

This hero lost more than a third of her weight, reaching 62 kilograms, which is the ideal weight she was hoping for. 

If you suffer from obesity, you can watch these real stories by browsing the videos section to learn more about the heroes whose lives have changed for the better, both on a professional or a personal level, after they have performed the appropriate bariatric surgery with the most skilled surgeon in this field, Dr. Ahmed Hatem.