Welcome Back, Diabetes (Not)

Hello Everyone,

I know it's been a long time since I've visited.  The good news (I guess) is that I have only regained about 1/3 of my EWL at almost 8 years out, and the past year have been staying steady in the 320s.  The bad news is I have watched my A1c level slowly increase this year from the usual 5.2-ish to 5.6, then 5.8, and now 6.0, which = full blown Type II diabetes.  My family doc has put me back on Metformin to try to keep it under control w/o insulin. 

 I'm curious as to whether anyone else out there has had a return of their diabetes, post-op? 

 My next visit with the doc I'm going to have a blood lipid panel run, to see if at least that part of the DS is still working for me. 

 I guess what some have said about the DS not being a "cure" for diabetes but rather a procedure that makes diabetics "asymptomatic" must be correct.    

Sorry to hear that dude! What is great about the DS is it can work again, cut thouse carbs down and it will work again, since we still absorb allot of the cmomplex carbs and 100% of the simple thouse are evil for us. Of corse I do not know your situation but I hope you can get back on track and nip this thing.

Your doctor is really aggressive.

My diabetes is still a looming issue but as long as I stay UNDER a 6.5, then my PCP will let me keep at the diet/exercise route. And NOT add any medication.

My age may have something to do with it as I am 60 and endocrinologists/PCP's etc seem to 7 to be the cutoff for the older population.

Maybe it is a little aggressive to be back on metformin but I think the trip from 6 - 7 would be a bad step.

Have you had any luck going back to your initial post-op menu's?

Did you walk out of surgery no longer on meds or did the diabetes go away gradually as your weight went down?
I guess I won't hassle my endocrinologist when she says remission and not cured.

Hello Paul,

From your active days out here, you were self-proclaimed the absolute worst, reckless eater for a DS post-op, bending and breaking every single rule to the point that you were a  menace to your coworkers as you all collectively suffered your after-effects.  If one is continuing to be so reckless, it doesn't surprise me that you are seeing the health effects of it.

The DS is a cure for 98% of the patients with Type2 Diabetes, and I'll bet most of them followed the rules at least a little.  You, however are an exception to that expectation, so I would expect a similar effect, wouldn't you?

Valerie I agree with you 100%. Paul I am truly surprised that you ever got of  your diabetes meds in the first place with your history as an early DSer.

Maybe you should go back to basics...if you even know what that is.

As reckless as you have been in the years since your surgery, I'm surprised you have done as well as well as you have.

If ever there was a person who was determined to not follow any rules, it was you. Be thankful you had any time free of the meds.

Hello Paul, I remember you very well.  I am almost 5 years post-op and my Type 2 diabetes was gone immediately after surgery and has never returned. 

For the newbies out there reading this post, Paul (Batwingsman) is a perfect example of what NOT to do after the DS.  Go back and read his early posts, where he ignored sage advice from veteran DSers.  He ate simple carbohydrates with wild abandon from a very early date.  If ever there was a person who could **** up the DS, it is Paul.  He says he has "watched my A1c level slowly increase this year", but doesn't say what he has done about it.  He hasn't said he is avoiding all sugar and flour, simple carbs, etc.  Because he is not. 

I would venture a guess that in the "long time" since he's visited, that he's been eating like he did before his DS.  Carbs first and foremost, sloppy eating.  Eating bread, chips, breaded and fried foods, cakes, cookies, well, you get the idea. 

But by all means, go back and read his back posts.  It will be enlightening for newbies wanting to know exactly how NOT to do things.

"If you can't be a good example, at least be a dire warning."

I see you're self-labeling yourself as a DS failure. You have worked very hard at being a failure, and we've told you and told you how you're failing but you refuse to change.

Your DS is working just fine. The problem is not with the surgery, but with your behaviour.

Newbies, real Paul's posting history. Don't make all the dumb mistakes Paul did, and continues to do.