[BlueSky]

Originally Posted by kackigrl79

.... The day I left the hospital I no longer needed my medication. ....

Thats really interesting. And it is good to hear that it had the desired effect. Have you tested your blood glucose response to high-carb foods since the surgery? If you drank, say, 200 ml of orange juice, would your blood glucose spike the way it did before the surgery?

[eatapeach]

Here is the URL for the 60 minutes video on The Bypass Effect.
The Bypass Effect On Diabetes, Cancer, Surgery Can Send Diabetes Into Remission, And May Reduce Risk Of Certain Cancers - CBS News

Cheers,
eatapeach

[kackigrl79]

Well once you have surgery the first month you have a lot of "head hunger", where you crave all kinds of foods you really can't have during that time. In a way I think it must be like a drug addict withdrawing from their drug of choice but with a lot less pain. Once you deal with that and know the difference between real hunger and head hunger it really isn't bad. When I'm hungry like breakfast I can eat a thing of yogurt for lunch I have soup or maybe some tuna and for dinner i have some chicken. I really am full after probably 1/2 cup of food. If I crave a snack I have something high in protein like cottage cheese. It is a life style change but after 1 month I was able to make the changes I needed to and not feel deprieved and just watch the weight fall off.

Now I do hear once you are about 2 years out of surgery things can sometimes be harder because by then you aren't really losing weight just trying to maintain. Your stomach pouch will stretch out a little by this time too (but not nearly close to the size of orginial stomach). Most people do gain some weight at this point the average is about 25% of the weight they loss might come back but I'm willing to live with that it is 100x better then where I was.

[fgummett]

Thanks kackigirl79... from everything I have read and heard so far it seems like this would be good for me... unfortunately my work insurance does not cover it and the Provincial health system has a waiting list of at least 1,000 ahead of me... I may have to go private if I can ever get the funds It's so frustrating knowing that there is something practical which could so dramatically improve my life and yet it is out of reach

[volleyball]

This could be like the ulcer thing where they just had to figure out the right antibiotic.
I'd like to see some long time follow up to see how long it lasts