songbrook

I chose to have the gastric banding procedure when I had to start taking insulin for diabetes.  My biggest problem was the apparent insulin resistance I have.  I had been started at 10 units advanced to 100 units of insulin a day over a period of 6 weeks, and it wasn't controlling the blood sugar.  I was switched to byetta.  That helped for a few weeks, but then my numbers crept up again, and very quickly.  I was taking 8-10 pills plus 1-2 shots a day for diabetes, high blood pressure, and at my Dr.s insistence, cholesterol, although my overall number was at 100.  I never had a real issue with the fact I was heavy while I could work, but I became disabled due to a couple of accidents blew out both my knees and a surgery for the torn ACL that went seriously wrong and left me with RSD in my left leg.  Not being able to work or exercise piled on 35 more lbs, and I wasn't ever thin before that.  I haven't been able to walk in three years.  I am now at 2 weeks post banding, and have lost 23 lbs, and already am seeing blood sugar and blood pressure dropping.  Unmedicated fasting WAS 289.  It is now 200.  My goal for this surgery isn't measured in lbs for me, but in my BP and blood sugar scores.  At this point in time, it looks to me like I made the right choice.