TONGUE PATCH SURGERY

 Just how far would you be willing to go to lose weight? If you’re one of a few dozen women in Los Angeles, you might consider surgery to apply a patch to your tongue to help you lose weight… but is it a good idea?

There is currently one doctor in the U.S. who offers this tongue patch surgery to lose weight, Dr. Chugay, in Los Angeles, California. According to a statement on his website, he was inspired by a similar weight-loss surgery in Mexico. He adapted the surgery and the materials used in the patch for safety, then tested the procedure on 67 patients. All of them, Chugay says, have lost considerable weight, with only one patient experiencing negative side effects from the surgery.

Here’s how it works: Dr. Chugay attaches a prolene mesh patch to the patient’s tongue for 30 days. The patch makes eating solid foods painful, so the patient is restricted to a liquid diet for the month, helping them shed unwanted pounds. Typically, a liquid diet will contain fewer than 1,000 calories, half of what a typical adult female ought to consume. This had led critics to complain that the weight loss is unsustainable, but Chugay counters that he also provides diet, fitness, and nutrition counceling to his patients to help them lead healthier lifestyles and maintain their weight loss. He also points out that his “Miracle Patch" is far less expensive and risky than other weight loss surgeries, like gastric bypass or the lap band.

I wouldn’t consider a tongue patch to lose weight, but what do you think? Is this a good option for people who have a hard time losing weight on their own, or is it too ridiculous?

 

 

Please stop copying and pasting threads.  It's irritating.  And your only 2 posts to this forum are copy/paste?  No thank you.

I am sharing information that I thought would be helpful or interedting to read. 

And Ii am new to this that is why there is only two posts.

If you dont like please dont read or dont comment.

Thanks

We are more interested in you and your personal journey. While your copy/post threads may be interesting information, they won't likely be read.

As Karen said, talk about YOU. Don't copy and paste irritating bull****

Welcome.

I assume you WANT to fit in here, to learn about WLS, and to get all the good you can out of this resource. Therefore, you really should take a little time to test the waters and to be receptive to comments from other posters on here. Remarks like "If you don't like please dont read or dont comment" aren't going to win you friends or garner you support.

Don't take offense when people tell you they don't like your posts.  People here, just like people everywhere, are all different. What one person likes, another dislikes.

Go with the flow, and you'll learn a LOT here. Get your panties in a wad, and you'll soon be flouncing off, cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I am holding out a crumb of hope that her problem is ignorance, but it's only a small crumb. Maybe she would be better served by chicken wire in her tongue than by WLS.

 Personally, I wouldn't do it.  Imo that is almost like jaw wiring (where an orthodontist wires your mouth shut and you are forced to follow a liquid diet).  I would also be worried about permanent damage to my taste buds.

That's crazy. I can't believe doctors are allowed to do this.

 In the 70's people would have their jaws wired shut and only have enough room left to get a straw into their mouth.  They carried a wire cutters on a chain around their neck.  If they needed to vomit they had to cut the wires open or risk choking to death.