Diabetic No More

I don't think your pre-diabetes will affect your weight loss at all.  But you will have to be more careful about not letting your blood sugar drop too low as you lose weight.

I was Type II with insulin resistence syndrome and I had the RNY.  There are a number of articles relating to Type 1 and gastric bypass.  The general concensus is that the weight loss HELPS but cannot cure Type 1:

In conclusion, gastric bypass surgery not only leads to a significant and maintained weight loss in type 1 diabetic patients, but also results in remarkable improvement in metabolic control (absolute reduction in HbA_1c of 3–4%) and concomitant disorders. Interestingly, the need for constant intensive insulin therapy in these patients had no detrimental influence on weight loss as an effect of obesity surgery. Both patients lost 50–60% of their excessive body weight during the follow-up period, which is also the rate reported in nondiabetic subjects (4,5,7).

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/10/2561.full

I'm having trouble getting my blood sugars UP today.  I had the shakes this morning about an hour after breakfast and when I checked my glucose it was 57!!!  Hasn't gone  above 90 all day and I know I've been eating things I shouldn't have.

Being type 2, with the suddent weight loss, I always wonder if the pancrease is still used to spitting out the high levels of insulin and hasn't quite gotten the hang of the idea, oh wait I don't need to do that anymore.

Non WLS i always say - have protien with your carbs.. so now i wonder if you need a little carb with the protien to keep the sugars up enough.


See diabetes I know - type 1 for 24 years - putting the pieces together with WLS -  learning all i can.

My pancreas has been spitting out too much insulin for years so I'm used to the high protein - low carb management of my blood sugar.  It's just nice not to have everyone I work with jumping down my throat if I reach for a thin slice of birthday cake and shouting "You can't have that - you're diabetic!"

Hi my name is Joyce, I just had usrgery 2 weeks ago and have lost 13 pounds I am a type 2 diabetic and my doctor took me off of metformin but has me on injections 2 times a day my blood sugars were in the low 100's the first week and even though I eat hardly anything my blood shugars have gone as high as 277, my doctor says once I get back in the gym my sugars will become more regular and probably stay in the low 100's and probably go even lower. Its very frustrateing to think that they just went from one extreme to another. I can't eat any less than I am eating I have lost a total of 35 pounds since may of 2009. so my weight loss has been pretty fast and steady which is why I do not understand the high bs levels I am at 195lbs and I have 40lbs to go before I will be at my goal weight. The bs fluctuations I am told could take as long as a year to stablize. Is anyone else haveing this problem.

I'm not sure why they would take you off the metformin with a lap band - the band does not inflict the same metabolic change a malabsorptive procedure does.

I'm concerned about you hardly eating anything, as you stated. If you're eating too little, your liver can release glucose into your blood to give you evergy since you're not eating enough, which, obviously, means higher blood glucose levels. This is why many people have higher fastnig morning glucose levels even without eating anything overnight - the liver dumps glucose into your body to give you the energy to wake up. Any time you fast (skip meals, eat too little, etc.), this can happen.

Thank you for the info. I will be askeing my doctor about the information. The liver releasing glucose makes since to me thanks again.