A sticky would have been Good.  Is there any more update info.  I was reading a current article and it gave some states in it stating the RNY corrected Diabetes in 75% of cases and the Biliopancreatic Diversion corrected Diabetes in 95% of the cases.

I had the lap band and did good with portion control.  NOT with the band.  I am looking to revise to a VSG.  My Shrink at the Psych Eval is trying to force me into a RNY due to Diabetes in the family.  I do believe the band saved me so far as I was borderline and so was my Sister 18 months older than me.  She is now a Diabetic, I'm normal.  If I wanted to convert to a RNY I would have done that 2 years ago.  I didn't want them to mess up my stomach/P valve.  Which the band did anyway so much for less invasive. 

So I am trying do my research so I know what I'm talking about when I talk to the surgeon on the 7th.  My question; are they talking about the DS or the Scopinaro procedure? I have been told in no uncertain terms this will be the last surgery I will ever get as I am already fighting against the once in a lifetime WLS rule.  My oldest sister has the DS and is the one that stopped me from the RNY in the first place 4 years ago.

By Victoria Stagg Elliott, amednews staff. Posted April 23, 2012.

Most recently, a paper in the March 26 New England Journal of Medicine compared patients with diabetes receiving bariatric surgery with those who got medical treatment for excess weight. After two years, 75% of those *****ceived gastric bypass, and 95% getting biliopancreatic diversion, achieved glycemic control. All the patients in the medical treatment group did not.

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