Hi everyone. I have my pre op appointment in two weeks to start the liquid diet and will have surgery in December. I am diabetic and need to loose about 80 lbs but am mainly doing this because I am diabetic. Its been frustrating over the years because my body starts to resist all effort and now I am taking insullin . I would love to hear from y'all about if this really does get rid if the diabetes. I am having a SIP where is the sleeve and they also do the bipass my dr says it help with dumping and malisorption problems. I honestly am doing this more for the diabetes because I have been fat my whole life and don't even know if I have a thin side of me. I have no other health problems even though I am 57 years old. My blood pressure is actually low and I had to do a stress test because my heartrate is low (no problems) I am also rather hyper and active and wonder.how this will change me. Thanks for listening. I cant wait. ..very excited to not have to do shots anymore

I am now 3 weeks after skeeve and havent needed any drugs. Its great...running average 110 . The weight us coming off steady..20 lbs since surgery.

I have been T1 for 37 years and as I get older, the weight was more challenging to get off so the scale was climbing. I had my surgery (gastric-bypass) 12/1 and so far I've lost 30lbs and have drastically reduced the amount of insulin I take. I can't speak to getting rid of diabetes because my pancreas doesn't work. My A1C use to average 8 in the past 20+ years and my recent A1C was 6.4!!! I will tell you to take things slowly and monitor your glucose like you've never done before. Best of luck on your journey!

Wow, so I have been on Insulin for 25 years and we share the same Gastric by pass Day! I also had mine done on 12 Jan, I'm having tons of hypo's and adjusting my insulin pump daily! I had a bad complication after the op and had ketoacidosis, was really scary, spent 7 days in ICU! Still in hospital now and just starting to hold down liquids without an IV bag! So feeling much improved, you sound like it's going really well for you! So happy for you, I'm sure I'll be following in your footsteps soon ...

Dyros -

I have not had many lows. I worked with my entire care team and specifically my endocrinologist. We had a plan in place and I'm blessed it worked! I went to 50% basal and 1:10 bolus on my pump. Of the two low's I've had, I have been using "glucose shots" by Dex.....liquid and easy to get down.

I hope you are doing well...take it easy and try not to get frustrated. I had my surgery 12/1/14 and I still have days where I have an ache/pain or feel nauseous....one day at a time

I have PCOS, had gestational diabetes, and now am diabetic. I've been on metformin for years for the PCOS and stayed on it to help with diabetes. My fasting sugar has always been super high (~170s), even though it comes down to a normal range during the day. When I left the hospital after surgery, my doctor told me to stop the metformin. My fasting numbers for the last 3 weeks have been in the 110s!! That's without any medicine at all.