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Hello all! Happy to find you!

Hi @Daniela welcome to the forum, it is a friendly place with lots of advice forthcoming if you need it.

It also helps if you provide a little information about your diabetes, such as how long you have had it and what your last HbA1c was.

Your surgery sounds 'interesting' I didn't realise that Type 2 could be treated surgically. Has/is it working?
 
Hi Daniela, and welcome to the forum from me too! As Jimmy has mentioned - feel free to share anything you feel comfortable with and ask questions if you have any, as the forum is here to support. :star:
 
JimmyBlue said:
Hi @Daniela welcome to the forum, it is a friendly place with lots of advice forthcoming if you need it.

It also helps if you provide a little information about your diabetes, such as how long you have had it and what your last HbA1c was.

Your surgery sounds 'interesting' I didn't realise that Type 2 could be treated surgically. Has/is it working?
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I don't think it is directly a treatment for type 2 but could work as it will enable weight loss by reduction of intake of food but I would suspect still needs good food choices.
 
Leadinglights said:
I don't think it is directly a treatment for type 2 but could work as it will enable weight loss by reduction of intake of food but I would suspect still needs good food choices.
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You're right. It appears to be a way of suppressing appetite as a way of promoting weight loss. To be considered for this on the NHS, patients usually need a BMI of 40 or more and to have not lost weight through diet, exercise and medication. They'll also need to agree to lifestyle and diet changes and regular check-ups afterwards,
 
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Hi @Daniela and welcome from me too.

Hope you have recovered well from the surgery and you are finding it helpful in aiding you to lose weight. I don't think we have had any other members go through this procedure because I hadn't seen it mentioned before and had to google it. It seems quite major surgery, so I really hope it is successful for you.
Is there anything particular that we can help you with on the forum? Would you like to tell us a bit about how you manage your diabetes? Are you on any medication or has the operation itself enabled you to manage without meds.

If you have any questions or things you don't understand, please feel free to ask. There is a wealth of experience of all types of diabetes here on the forum and usually that means you often get more that one different answer, but that is a good thing because diabetes is very individual and what suits one person may not suit another. The key to success is to find what suits and works for you and your body as an individual.
 
JimmyBlue said:
Your surgery sounds 'interesting' I didn't realise that Type 2 could be treated surgically. Has/is it working?
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Weight loss surgery can be used to treat type 2
 
JimmyBlue said:
Your surgery sounds 'interesting' I didn't realise that Type 2 could be treated surgically. Has/is it working?
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Weight loss surgery has been known to put T2D into remission for some time and this is what led to the work in Newcastle - it was designed to replicate the rapid weight loss by surgery to see prove a hypothesis about weight (Twin cycle theory) being a major cause of Type 2 diabetes.
 
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