Surgery 'safe and effective': diabetes experts

[Northerner]

AUSTRALIA'S worsening diabetes epidemic could be reduced dramatically by more publicly funded gastric banding surgery - a treatment shown to put most people into remission, experts say.
While bariatric surgery has generally been considered a last resort for the severely obese, diabetes specialists are now saying people with mild to moderate obesity should consider it if they fail to lose weight with conventional methods.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/surgery-safe-and-effective-diabetes-experts-20111219-1p2ex.html

Contains one of the worst comments I've heard so far 'Anne Binns has no regrets over lap band surgery she underwent two years ago; her diabetes has cleared up and she is healthier than ever.'

 

[Copepod]

"cleared up" sounds exactly the sort of phrase that would be used by a lay (non-medically-qualified) Australian, so The Age (very wel lrespected newspaper) journalist is probably quoting her accurately.

Although checking now, the paragraph reads "
Anne Binns, 55, of South Yarra, said she was thrilled with the results of a stomach band she had implanted two years ago after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Within a year, she had lost 17 kilograms, had a healthy BMI of 22 and no longer had diabetes.

''I've found it to be brilliant,'' she said."

What Northerner quotes is the caption below a photo of a fit looking woman sitting on a grassy bank.

 

[trophywench]

On the other forum I infest, we have a young woman who had the radical gastric reduction surgery last year - her T2 was but a by-product of various problems which led to her obesity.

She's doing great - except she now suffers from hypoglycaemia instead of hyper, she's hoping her pancreas will eventually re-program itself ! But anyway she's obviously now not taking anti-diabetics in any form,has lost a tremendous amount of weight already and describes herself as 'a diabetic in-waiting' LOL