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Type 2 Diabetis and Gastric Sleeve



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I was reviewing this forum for information on the effect of diabetis on weight loss after the sleeve. Everything I found was a few years old.

Any recent sleevers with diabetis? How are you doing? My doctor told me all of his patients with diabetis lose slower and not as much as others.

Have you heard and/or experienced that.

I am losing very slowly. My surgery was on 10/10/16 and I have only loss 27 lbs since surgery and 36 lbs since starting the preop diet.

I was taken off the insulin at meal-times and my weekly bydureon was also discontinued. I only take the long acting insulin at night since I started on the pre-op diet. I haven't had an A1C since surgery - that's next week.

Please let me hear how you are doing out there :unsure:

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Well... 90% of diabetics improved and 78% go into remission. Now if only insurance companies would get on board!

https://asmbs.org/patients/surgery-for-diabetes

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/39/6/857

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Was on 2 meds and insulin for type 2 diabetes. With the insulin I averaged in the 120s, with the occasional spike. Last dose of insulin was day prior to surgery. Took the diabetes meds for about the first week after surgery but sugar kept bottoming out. Have not taken anything since then, test regularly and average around 75.

As for the slower weight loss, I had not heard that before. I do know that it can slow down the healing process. Little over 7 months out here and went from 304 to 185 (119 lbs down so far).

Best of luck to you!

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I was taking two pills a day for my type 2 diabetes, that stopped the day of surgery. I was checking my blood sugar regularly post op and found it to be great, at times a touch low. My surgery was on September 2nd 2016, my starting weight was 370 and I'm down 124 pounds now. I don't feel like I've been losing slow at all. For me so far so good!

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All good news and encouraging. I have trid reducing the long acting insulin by 5 units, but get about a 20 point increase in fasting BS. So I back off. Decided to wait until I get the next A1C, and see the doctor next week.

Thanks for responding

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When I first was sleeved on September 21, of last year,my diabetes was going in the right direction insulin was lower, off metformin, but now my weight is coming off slow and my A1c is not going down like I expected it. The only foods that I have a problem with is lettuce,rice and beef anything else I have no problem with, I've only Loss 40 pounds though. At the beginning I started off at 266 and now I weigh 223, my doctor put me on a low dose of losartan potassium and pravastatin he say to protect my liver and kidney I'm getting really frustrated cause I excise 6 times a week hard and the weigh is not coming off like it should. I NEED HELP before I go back to square one


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My local surgeon likes to keep diabetic bariatric patients on their metformin postop, when appropriate, because it can help with weight loss.

Maybe ask your doc whether it could be beneficial to go back on it.

Good luck!

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