Interesting brief review of a study regarding diabetes remission with weight regain after surgery
Can you possibly post the link AS a link rather than just as text so people can click on it? I don't think anyone is going to type all that in (and my iPad wont let me copy it)...
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Very interesting article ... the weight regain stats particularly!
Anyway, I digress; I'm glad we hear less and less about "cure" after RNY and I'm also glad that it is acknowledged that recurrence is not because of anything we do ...
People who are early out may believe that once their diabetes goes into remission they are golden, or that they will only get recurrence if they regain - this article and study confirm what I have typed over and over - it's NOT TRUE! I have had recurrence and I was only insulin dependent during pregnancy and was not a long term type II diabetic, so unluckier than most ... No one who is diabetic before RNY should be smug - it really can recur any time - regain or not!
I am a normal BMI, eat well and exercise well and thus am able to control it with Metformin ... I am convinced that despite recurrence I am way better off than I would have been without WLS.
Proud Feminist, Atheist, LGBT friend, and Democratic Socialist
The only person I know personally who was diabetic before RNY and had it return only gained back about 10 of close to 200 pounds AND the diabetes returned before she gained some of that amount, so she basically had regained almost nothing after a HUGE weight loss when she had to go back on medication.
So the average regain after only about 2.5 years out (2.8 years was the average time period they cited) was nearly 20%. That seems like a lot of regain in a very short period of time! (It wouldn't seem strange if it had been over 5+ years.) For me, that would have been close to 40 pounds (and I didn't quit losing until 20 months out). Yikes! As I think about it, though, I do know several people who started gaining within a fairly short period of time after they stopped losing, so maybe those stats aren't as odd as they first seemed to me.
Perhaps we should send this study to Dr Oz and the doctors he had on his television show who were recommending RNY to normal or just overweight people who are diabetic! Fortunately, I have not yet heard of any insurance company that is willing to cover the surgery for people who are not obese. Hopefully the insurance companies are smarter about this than Dr Oz.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Very often people will ignore:
Links that are NOT hotlinked - I would not have opened this if the previous poster hadn't hotlinked it,
Threads that are just links, with no opinions or reasons why you posted it.
What do YOU think is interesting about this article?
Proud Feminist, Atheist, LGBT friend, and Democratic Socialist
