Nerve damage may occur after weight-loss surgery

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More complications from a surgery that is almost never indicated.

Some patients begin hallucinating and lose the ability to walk a couple of months after the surgery, Juhasz-Pocsine explained in an interview with Reuters Health. "After resolution of the acute symptoms they are quite weak, and it takes around a year to recover.

Some are permanently disabled," she said. Among patients who develop symptoms years down the road, the spinal cord typically is affected, resulting in falling, extreme coordination and gait problems, and severe spasticity, and some individuals need to use wheelchairs...

Gastric bypass patients and their doctors should be aware of the early signs and symptoms of neurological problems, and should know that these symptoms can strike many years after a person has had the surgery, Juhasz-Pocsine advises.

You can't have your cake, you can't eat it and even if you just wanted to look at it, you'd have to wheel yourself to it.

Or hallucinate it.