Did the vertical sleeve surgery cure your diabetes?

Easy as that... was this surgery a magical cure?  If you are dieting... why couldnt you diet before but you can now? 

I was borderline diabetes (technically pre-diabetes), but by the time I had surgery my glucose levels were in the diabetic range. Within 12 hours of surgery my glucose level was 88. My glucose level has stayed in the 80s on all draws since - whether random or fasting.

For many of us, dieting was very difficult because of the deprivation it caused and because of the raging ghrelin levels. Having a VSG reduces the amount of ghrelin the body produces (forever) and a majority of people have significantly reduced hunger for the first year. Some of us, myself included, have had a drastically reduced hunger level that has proven to be long term.

The sleeve also helps people with portion control - especially in the first months. It's not a magic bullet, but it's a hell of a tool to have in your weight loss arsenal! I will NEVER regret having my sleeve.

Oh, and A1c is now ranging from 5.1-5.5. It's never been over 5.5 since VSG!

The don't call it a cure, but my preop A1C was 7.2 and my post op A1c was 5.6 or normal.

YUP!!

diabetic for 17 years, well controlled for 15 out of 17 years on 1 med...

last 2 yrs out of control even w/being on 2 meds and 2 shots!!!

although my endocrinologist doesn't say cured he says in remission..

which is true..I gain my weight back, my diabetes will come back w/a vengeance...

My last dose of Metformin was the day before surgery.  My diabetes has been in remission since.  My last A1c was 5.0.  I tried dieting so many times, with the same results - lose a little, gain a lot.  I managed to take off a good chunk of weight prior to the surgery, as my resolve was to do all that I could to have a successful surgery.  However, without that motivator, it was only a matter of time before I gained it all, plus some, back.  Prior to surgery, at the WLS info session, they said that keeping off the weight lost, for 5 years following traditional dieting had only a 2% success rate, while, with WLS the success rate was about 70% - that info alone made my decision to have WLS a no brainer.

Pretty much my same experience. 

Diagnosed diabetic officially just a month or so before surgury. Normal A1C post surgery. Slight creep in the last 6 months and now sitting at the very low end of the pre-diabetic range. I gained and lost a gob. So far so good on making goal and staying there, and that never would have happened without the surgery.