LAP BAND QUESTION RELATED TO DIABETES

HI ALL, I MET WITH MY DIETATION TODAY.  I HAVE DIABETES.  WAS FINALLY DIAGNOSED WEDNESDAY.  THE DIETITION SAID THE BYPASS SURGERY GETS RID OF DIABETES BECAUSE OF A HORMONE THEY HAVE FOUND THAT NO LONGER PRODUCES WHEN THE STOMACH IS OUT VS. THE LAP BAND THAT DOESN'T HELP DIABETES?    COMMENTS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, that's the size of it. RYN does cure diabetes in most (not all ) cases.

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All the WLS types will get rid of your diabetes. Lap band doesn't have as good a success rate as bypass, but it's still something like 80% at 2 years out (according to the ASMBS's web site) compared to 93% for bypass. DS and VSG, two other WLS types, also improve or get rid of diabetes in a large amount of people.

Also, usually with bypass, no part of the stomach is actually removed. RnY patients do get a reduction in ghrelin, a hormone made by the stomach that stimulates the appetite, but with VSG and DS, the part of the stomach that makes that hormone is completely removed and plasma levels of ghrelin plunge to near zero.

That said, it's believed that it's the intestinal re-routing in RnY and DS that promotes remission of diabetes and now some people are getting the re-routing without any changes to their stomach in order to cure diabetes. I don't think it has anything to do with a stomach hormone at all.