{"id":827,"date":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-type-2-diabetes-how-two-women-with-type-2-diabetes-fared-after-weight-loss-surgery\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","slug":"condition-type-2-diabetes-how-two-women-with-type-2-diabetes-fared-after-weight-loss-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-type-2-diabetes-how-two-women-with-type-2-diabetes-fared-after-weight-loss-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"How Two Women With Type 2 Diabetes Fared After Weight-Loss Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lisa Corbeil was able to stop taking metformin and insulin after losing weight.(LISA CORBEIL)<\/p>\n

$\"janice-rowe\"$ janice-rowe<\/span> , weight-loss surgery may help you shed weight and reduce, or even reverse, type 2 diabetes. However, some patients see little or no improvement in their diabetes after surgery.<\/p>\n

In the 2004 review of more than 130 studies, a University of Minnesota researcher and colleagues found that bariatric (weight loss) surgery caused obese people to lose 40.7% to 73.9% of their excess weight (depending on the procedure). <\/p>\n

In patients who had type 2 diabetes, the diabetes was reversed completely in 77% of patients and reversed or improved in 86%.<\/p>\n

However, the risks of such procedures are not insignificant (including a small risk of death), so it's important to discuss the risks and benefits and with your health-care provider before making such a life-altering decision.<\/p>\n

And it's important to have presurgical counseling to explore the psychological reasons behind overeating; you have to change lifelong bad eating habits too.<\/p>\n

Lisa Corbeil's story<\/b>
When Lisa Corbeil had blood work in 2004 confirming type 2 diabetes, she had a "total meltdown" in her doctor's office. "I say that I went though all the stages of grief<\/a> in about 20 minutes in her office," says Corbeil, an accounting professional in Philadelphia whose brother died of type 1 in 1995 at age 41. "Of all the things out there that I didn't want to get, it was this disease."<\/p>\n

She underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2006 and dropped 155 pounds. The 47-year-old no longer has diabetes. "I have a life back. And I feel healthier now than when I was a thin 20-year-old," she says. "I'm kicking diabetes's ass."<\/p>\n

However, her doctor still checks her hemoglobin A1C<\/a> levels and Corbeil is careful about her exercise and food choices because she knows her diabetes could return.<\/p>\n

"I always carry some protein bars and keep some protein drinks around just in case," she says. She no longer takes insulin or metformin. "It's just wonderful," she says.<\/p>\n

Janice Rowe's story<\/b>
Janice Rowe, 54, who lives in the Bronx, N.Y., was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when she was 35. She had trouble controlling her blood sugar despite using a treadmill and trying multiple medications. "I was at my wit's end," she says.<\/p>\n

Her father had died of complications from diabetes, so she was especially aware of the risks associated with the disease. "I always had the mind-set that I wanted to manage it," Rowe says. "But I just didn't know how."<\/p>\n

In 2003 she had gastric bypass surgery and lost almost 100 pounds. But her blood sugar was still<\/i> too high. "I still had a problem with diabetes," she says.<\/p>\n

Her doctor put her on insulin in September 2007. "It scared the death out of me because I gained 10 or 15 pounds in just a couple of weeks," she says. (Insulin can sometimes cause weight gain.)<\/p>\n

She credits her diabetes educator<\/a> with turning her life around. When she first went to see her in October 2007, her blood sugar was 289 mg\/dL, "and that was sort of average." Sometimes it was even higher. (A normal random blood sugar for a person without diabetes is 70 to 125 mg\/dL.)<\/p>\n

With her diabetes educator's help, Rowe fixated on three things: portion control, exercise, and medication. She quickly lost the weight she had gained while on insulin and reduced her blood sugar to 196 mg\/dL with lifestyle changes.<\/p>\n

Her diabetes educator also suggested that she try taking Januvia. Her doctor agreed, and soon after she began Januvia she was able to stop taking insulin and Byetta<\/a>, which she had been taking since before her surgery.<\/p>\n

She worked out six days a week and eventually her blood sugar dropped too low<\/a>, prompting her doctor to adjust her medications. "So now my fasting blood sugar is usually around 110, but I sometimes become hypoglycemic in the morning," she says.<\/p>\n

"It's a mind-set, and if you don't get the mind-set that you're going to deal with having diabetes, you're going to be in big trouble," she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"