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Bariatric Surgery: A Community for Weight Loss Surgery

Welcome to /r/ BariatricSurgery, a community for weight loss surgery. Opened April 2014

41k subscribers380 posts / mo in Sep 2026316 authors / mosince 2014

r/BariatricSurgery has 41k members (+17% over the last 12 months). It gets about 380 posts a month from 316 people. Top topics: Weight Loss Journey, Weight Loss Journeys and Weight Loss Advice.

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Size and growth

How r/BariatricSurgery has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+17%in 12 months · +2.9% in 3 months · +0.7% in 1 month
Oct 202641k
Growing41k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/BariatricSurgery

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−35%vs Sep 2025 · −8.8% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026380
QuieterPeaked at 1.1k in Oct 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/BariatricSurgery

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Weight Loss Journey0.1%
  2. Weight Loss Journeys<0.1%
  3. Weight Loss Advice<0.1%
  4. Two-Year Transformations<0.1%
  5. Weight Loss Stories & Debates<0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. ACS
  2. ScienceDirect
  3. Walmart
  4. Qualtrics
  5. Target Corporation

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research