Diabetic almost 1 week post op from gastric bypass

Surprisingly I am type 2 I was just insulin dependent. I don't quite understand the difference myself but I hope within the next few months I will no longer require the insulin at all. Also my last A1C was 10.2 so haven't had it checked yet after surgery but I hope it has gone down. Thanks for the support!

The A1C test uses red blood cells, which have a lifespan of about 90 days. If you have another test closer to your surgery date, it won't reflect yhe full extent of the change. You'd need to wait until all of those nasty pre-surgery red cells die off.

Type 2 diabetics are never insulin dependent.  Insulin dependent diabetics are Type 1.  They must have insulin or risk dying.  Type 2 diabetics are given insulin to help control their blood sugar but they are not dependent on it and will not die if they miss a dose. 

Well my body still produces insulin and my doctors said I was type 2 insulin dependent. So take it up with them I guess. Regardless it doesn't matter now. 

My A1C was 10.7 in 12/2014. I'm not going to call RNY a miracle, but it sure is effective.  

You should talk to your bypass doc about the sweating.  I recently had surgery for a stomach problem and I began having sweats.  Apparently this can happen when your blood sugar falls too low too fast.  I had never experienced this before.  I was always a sweater because I was heavy, but this is a different kind of sweat.  Soak your sheets and very sudden.  They told me to track my blood sugar every time I experienced one. 

I can't offer much help with the sweating -- call your doc! -- but I was also diabetic from a fairly young age. I had my surgery last May at age 30, and I'd been type II diabetic since I was 23. I was never insulin dependent, but I was at one point on metformin, glipizide, Invokana, and Bydureon injections. If you're truly type II, weight loss should definitely help, although getting off medications is never 100% guaranteed. I was off all but the metformin by losing 80 lbs before surgery, and I stopped the metformin the day before surgery. I saw my endocrinologist last month and she officially declared me no longer diabetic. However, my A1c at the time of diagnosis was 8.3, and the highest it got after that was 7.4, so your mileage may vary. I fully expect to be back on at least metformin at some point in my life because I was diagnosed so young and have such an overwhelming family history. But I'll take any improvement (and any medication cost savings) I can get in the meantime!