£1,450 from start to finish for a six-month balloon. What it does, what it does not, and when it is the wrong answer.
A balloon is a temporary device that buys you six months to change how you eat. It is not a small gastric sleeve, and this page says so plainly.
It is the same procedure you would have in Manchester or London: a soft silicone balloon is placed in the stomach through an endoscope and filled. It takes up space, so you feel full on far less food.
The first three days are the hard part: cramps, nausea and vomiting are normal and expected. You are given medication for them and the surgeon is reachable throughout. From day four the symptoms ease markedly.
A balloon has to come out again. A price that does not mention removal is half a price, so here are both.
| With us in İzmir | UK, privately | |
|---|---|---|
| Six-month balloon | £1,200 | from around £4,000 |
| Removing your balloon | £250 | varies by clinic |
| Six-month balloon, total | £1,450 | |
| 12-month balloon | £2,100 + £250 removal | commonly £5,000–£8,000 |
| Removing a balloon placed elsewhere | £400 | often not offered |
Bloods and consultation, gastroscopy and placement, the balloon itself (an original product, not a copy), medication for the first days, hotel nights for the stay, your dietary plan and twelve months of follow-up by WhatsApp and video call.
Flights, and the removal fee shown above, which is paid when the balloon comes out. No deposit and no instalments: you pay on the day.
After about six months the effect fades: the stomach adapts while the balloon is still in place. Twelve months costs more for limited extra benefit. We offer it; we do not push it.
Considerably less than with surgery. Realistically 10 to 25 kg, and up to about 35 kg at the top end. The photographs below sit at that top end: they are the exception, not the rule.
Shown with consent. Results vary; for comparison, gastric sleeve patients typically lose 60–70% of their excess weight.
Your BMI is roughly 27 to 35, you want to lose 15 to 30 kg rather than 60, you specifically want to avoid an operation, or you need to lose weight before another procedure.
Your BMI is 40 or above, you have type 2 diabetes you want to put into remission, or you have already lost and regained weight several times. Then the honest recommendation is a gastric sleeve at £2,499 or a gastric bypass.
Expect it to work without changing how you eat. It is a tool for six months of new habits. Used that way it works; used as a magic object it does not.
With Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı the six-month balloon is £1,200 and removing it is £250, so £1,450 from start to finish. Flights are not included; the package begins when you land in İzmir. Privately in the UK the same treatment starts at around £4,000.
Most of our balloon patients lose between 10 and 25 kg, depending on starting weight and how the six months are used. Up to about 35 kg is possible from a high starting weight with real dietary change. Anyone quoting sleeve-level figures for a balloon is selling you the wrong procedure.
A 12-month balloon is £2,100 plus £250 for removal. We work with the six-month balloon as standard because the effect fades after about six months anyway: the stomach adapts and the fullness signal weakens while the balloon is still in place.
We do not recommend it. It needs no endoscopy, which sounds easier, but it costs considerably more and in our experience does not deliver the weight loss patients expect. We would rather tell you that than sell it.
Placement is endoscopic, takes 20 to 30 minutes under light sedation and involves no incision. Abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting are normal in the first three days and ease from day four. Very rarely a balloon deflates or moves; with fluid-filled balloons a warning sign is blue-green urine, which you report at once.
At a very high BMI, or with type 2 diabetes you want to treat, a balloon is the wrong tool and a gastric sleeve or bypass is the honest recommendation. A balloon suits a BMI of roughly 27 to 35 and a target of 15 to 30 kg.
Your stomach is exactly as it was. Without changed habits the weight returns; that is not a complication, it is how a temporary device works. The balloon buys you six months to change how you eat.
Yes. Removing a balloon placed by another clinic is £400.
Send your height, weight and age. The surgeon tells you honestly whether a balloon would get you where you want to be, or whether you would be paying for the wrong procedure.
Tell him how much you want to lose and what you have tried. The answer is free, and it may be that a balloon is not it.
WhatsApp is the quickest route. You write to the surgeon himself, not a call centre or an agency.
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