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I posted an article about GBS that I read this morning on azcentral.com--- now its gone?????

I would have liked to have seen that. Can you re-post? Sheryl

repost it please Sandy in Tucson

Did you post the whole article? Copyright? How about posting the link to it.....

Hi Darlene I read your post on Wednesday and forwarded it on to someone else. After I read this post I tried to retrieve the article but neither she nor I were able. I will keep trying. I believe it was the article about WLS causing the pancreas to secrete more insulin thereby "causing" the onset of post op diabetes. In fact, as the article stated, WLS actually helps diabetes to disappear. There was a doctor near the end of the article who said that he had absolutely no concerns about the surgery because this was such a rare condition and to get excited. It was on a very small test group (5 maybe?) and it was treated by removing a part of the pancreas. OMG. I hope I got all of this right. At my advanced age I have periodic "senior moments." Fran

New difficulty in gastric bypass 6 develop severely low blood sugar Jeff Donn Associated Press Jul. 21, 2005 12:00 AM BOSTON - A least six patients who underwent the most popular type of obesity surgery have developed an apparent complication: blood sugar so perilously low that it causes confusion, tunnel vision and blackouts, doctors say. The condition was corrected with further surgery and no lasting effects, and researchers and other experts said the problem is probably too rare to warrant cutting back on the weight-loss procedure. In fact, the problem might suggest new ways of treating diabetics. "If we can understand the molecular details here, we can bottle them," said Dr. David *******s, a hormone researcher at the University of Washington. He wrote an editorial with the federally funded study in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The possible complication stems from the stomach-bypass procedure known as the Roux-en-Y technique. A small pouch is stapled off from the rest of the stomach and then connected directly to the small intestine. The pouch can handle only small amounts of food. This technique accounts for the vast majority of the roughly 140,000 gastric-bypass operations performed each year in the United States. The number has been rising at almost 50 percent a year in response to the obesity epidemic. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minn., focused on six patients who developed severe low blood sugar, or neuroglycopenia. They suffered temporary confusion, passed out or developed tunnel vision after eating. "For people who have it, they basically have to be baby-sat: They cannot be left alone, they can't drive," said one of the researchers, Dr. F. John Service. The researchers suspect the effect happens like this: Barely digested food rushes right into the intestine. Its hormones then overstimulate the insulin-oozing beta cells of the pancreas. The excess of insulin - the same hormone that fails in diabetics - removes too much sugar from the blood. To correct the condition, doctors had to remove most of the pancreas from the patients. But that put the patients in danger of developing diabetes, an illness that is often cured by gastric-bypass surgery. Dr. Neil Hutcher, president of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, said he has never seen the possible complication in his roughly 3,000 operations. "Do I think it can be called a substantial complication of gastric bypass at this time? Absolutely not. Do I think it's a reason to modify gastric bypass at this time? Absolutely not," he said. *******s said this insulin-boosting complication could explain why gastric bypass generally cures diabetes and could lead to new treatments.

ObesityHelp moderaters delete posts that have non-obesityhelp.com links on them. To avoid getting them pulled, don't put the http:// before the web address. Can you copy-paste the article on here for us? I'm interested and curious about it. Thanks, Trisha