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Cheyenne
Active Member
Hi! I read that R-N-Y surgery has the affect of stopping the need of insulin for type 2 diabetics in about 90% of the patients. Doctors don't want to call it a "cure" because they aren't even sure why it happens because the patients blood sugar is normal sometimes just hours after surgery so it's not from the weight loss. Many diabetic people on this forum have normal blood sugar now from the gastric bypass.
Good luck with your surgery.
Cheyenne
Welcome to the forum. I read someplace that some doctors are recommending the bypass solely to help diabetics. Sure would like to understand why blood sugars stabilize so soon after surgery. I am not diabetic, but my blood sugars plummeted after surgery to a dangerously low level. Seems like the same phenomenon.
dancinbr
Member
Hi,
I am T2 diabetic and I chose the gastric bypass to normalize my diabetes. Oh it is there, but under control now and without any medications. It happened immediately for me. I left the hospital and I no longer needed the metformin or insulin I was using anymore.
Noone knows exactly why but it does work.
There is one person on the forum that recently joined that is having difficulty normalizing her blood sugars. She is working with her doctors. She always had high blood sugar readings and the best A1C I gather that she could achieve was 8 or more. So, hopefully her blood sugars will normalize. I do know as a diabetic the body is slow to change if you are running high sugars for a long period of time.
Here are all the benefits I have enjoyed to date:
Medical/Physical Maladies that have been resolved to date
• Diabetes resolved – off all meds, avg reading 110
• BP normal again – I am still taking bystolic 5mg. Resting pulse is around 60 and BP near or below 120/80. Without the bystolic my resting pulse is still in the 60s. However, my BP goes up to the high 130s/high 80s.
• Sleep Apnea resolved – I am not snoring nor do I believe I am stopping breathing. I will confirm this later this year. The air pressure from the CPAP machine was making me very uncomfortable; lots of burping
• Legs no longer swollen
• Waist size has shrunk – Wearing size 44 pants comfortably and just made it into 42 pants.
• Feet are smaller – I was able to put a pair of dress shoes on that I haven’t been able to wear.
• I stay under 1200 calories a day. Most days around 1000 calories.
• I have a lot more energy
• I can dance, dance and dance
• I can walk up neighborhood hills aggressively without having to stop; no longer breathless.
• My incontinence due to my prostatectomy has been resolved.
• I am able to sleep in my bed again. I had been sleeping In an upright chair to be comfortable.
• Dramatically reduced backaches; almost completely gone.
• I can bend over and tie my shoes now!
• I can see my toes again
• I can do dance steps again that I couldn’t do. The belly is gone!
• Now wearing size 42 slacks comfortably and looking forward to size 40 slacks. Just got into 40s but they are snug.
• Starting to sleep on my side again! This has happened in years!
• Intimacy much improved !!!
Ralph