I am curious to those who are diabetic and post surgery......how did you control your blood sugar?  Did you go home on medication and insulin.......or nothing.  Just wondering how most diabetics control their sugars when they first come home.

 ALL the diabetics in my support group take their last dose before surgery. Not one of them has had a dose since surgery.

I'm sure this isn't the case for everyone but I would think your doctor will advise you and you'd monitor your blood sugar just like you would now?

 It really depends on your personal history.  I have read stories on here of people who went home free of drugs.  For me I didnt stop taking my meds until after being home for 3 days or so.  

Prior to surgery I had an A1C of above 10.  I was on levemir 120 units a day + metformin/victoza/januvia.  Three days after surgery - blood sugars no higher than 86 in the AM.  My last A1C was 5.0.

Now my Diabetes always went out of control when my weight did.  My medical history pretty clearly indicated that losing weight would help my diabetes.

That said, I am extremely compliant.  If you get home and start eating a bunch of crby foods, you may not be able to quickly get off meds until you lose significant amounts of weight, or at all.  

Not everyone does come off meds or stay off of them permanently.  Weight loss is the most common drug free treatment for Type II diabetes, but its not a aguarantee.

I am/was? prediabetic and extremely insulin resistant. I still take 2000mg of metformin. My blood sugar is always in the 80s though but I will find out if my insulin is getting better and what my A1C is. The surgeon tried to lower my metformin but I stopped losing weight when he did that.

I was on 1750 mg of metformin left the hospital free from meds! Good luck-

 I was just sleeved on 5/30, when I was d/c they told me to stop taking my meds and test twice a day (goal was to be under 200). Apparently they forgot to order a endo consult or I might have gone home on meds.  They said to check with my primary in two weeks.  HTH

Wow! I am diabetic and didnt know the info that you guys described above.  I mean I knew  that I could eventually be taken off he DM meds but I didn't know that the I could potentially be taken off so soon after surgery, 

You all are so helpful.  Thank you for your time and willingness to provide useful informatin to those of us that are pretty new to this site.

I too went home with no diabetic meds.  Prior to surgery I was on 2000 mg Glumetza and 12 cc'(?)s Victoza

I stopped taking my Victoza the day I started my pre-op diet. I'm very much in tune with my blood sugar levels/a1c ect.

I work in pediatric endocrinology, so I feel like being aware and taking care of my diabetes is part of my job.

I was supposed to be on Metformin, but I had gotten off the wagon with taking it and could not get back on because it was making me too sick. About 2 months before surgery, I started taking Tradjenta, which did not make me sick at all. I stopped taking it the night before surgery.

While I was in the hospital, my numbers stayed in the 140's, so my dr said I would need to take a dose of my meds every other day for a while. I didn't do that when I first got home because I wasn't sure how to take it, since I wasn't supposed to swallow pills. When I saw my pcp a week later, my blood sugars had been normal since I got home, so she told me to not bother taking the meds at all.

About three weeks ago, I had my first postop blood work, and my A1c was a 6 without meds, and that includes about 6 weeks of preop numbers too. My pcp is confident that my A1c will be even lower the next time we check it, so I'm still on no meds.

It really does vary from person to person, but for most type 2's weight loss, paired with the way we as sleevers tend to eat post op, is usually a recipe for much better numbers.