Bariatric Surgery in Petaluma, CA

Bariatric care for Petaluma residents

Petaluma sits at a useful crossroads for our patients: south Sonoma County, an easy connection east across the Sonoma Valley, and no bridge in the way. That 35-minute figure matters more than it sounds. The pre-op stretch involves several visits in a compressed window, and the first post-op month adds a few more. A trip you can do between morning meetings changes whether people finish the pathway.

The Petaluma patients we see skew toward people who have done everything asked of them — years of disciplined effort, medically supervised diets, GLP-1 medications — and are still fighting biology. Dr. Perryman's first job at the consultation is to explain why that happened, in physiological terms, before anyone talks about an operation.

From there the choice is usually between sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass, with the balloon and physician-managed GLP-1 programs as genuine alternatives rather than consolation prizes. More than 1,000 bariatric procedures inform that recommendation, and the same surgeon carries it through the operating room and the follow-up year.