Are you serious about this stuff? Bariatric surgery doesn’t prevent or cure diabetes. This woman lost 350 lbs and her symptoms abated. That is not a cure which is unsurprising. I doubt there are many of us who even have 350 lbs to lose. OMG.
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I have read extensively on this subject and if you read my original post you will see that the whole point of this topic is to get people to stop using the term “cure” and “reverse.” Instead I have suggested the use of the term “REMISSION.” What did the NBSR report say? Remission.
Suggesting that bariatric surgery can cure or reverse diabetes and that it should be used to “prevent” diabetes is just wrongheaded and dangerous. This surgery is only indicated in severely obese patients where weight loss can improve their blood sugar management and comorbidities.
I have to ask. Are you associated with a bariatric clinic? Do you have diabetes? Would you personally consider this surgery?
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My mother had bariatric surgery in the 90’s. She lost the weight immediately, but now 20 years later and she’s regained it all, plus almost 75% more. She was diagnosed with diabetes 5 years ago. She still can’t eat more than a handful of food at a time without vomiting, now has digestive trouble and has to supplement.
While I am sure that whatever surgery she had is “the dark ages” compared to what they do today, I know that I would never sign myself up for it. I just can’t get out of my head the misery I’ve seen her go through, all for nothing.
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Don’t know from where (or why) you come to this Forum, Twill, but around these here parts, “remission” versus “cure” matters a great deal. You could benefit by checking your adversarial rabble-rousing at the door.
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I am not alone in suspecting your agenda has little to do with offering benefit to PWD.
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Quite a bit, based on the responses (Brian’s in particular).
Just look at the flowers, listen to Elsa, and Let it Go.
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Sorry to hear see this conversation dive into the weeds and potentially beneficial information to ~some~ people being selectively censored to protect the feelings of some others … quite unfortunate. I hope someday we will all just accept information as information without getting offended by it if we don’t feel it is relevant to us. We can always take what’s of value to us and dismiss the rest. But when we silence people who have something to say other than what we do, it’s really not good for anyone. Words are just words. I wish I could reverse or cure my diabetes-- I applaud anyone who feels they have accomplished that, regardless of what method was involved.
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someone once told me the more you know you know you don’t know. go to a diabetic ward in a hospital and
say it is nothing.
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