Diabetes type 2 after sleeve surgery

[Shellbs 0]

Hi type 2 diabetic post Sleeve 6/21 still struggling to get my #s under control!!

Still on glipizide and insulin. Blood pressure still high as well!!

Very depressed feeling like it was all for nothing!!! Everyone told me I would feel great, sugar will be better less meds!! Not happening!!!

[RickM 1,752]

Unfortunately, you may be one of the 15% or so who do not resolve their diabetes with the sleeve or bypass (both have remission rates in the 85% range, give or take a bit) or you may be one of those who just takes a while longer for it to resolve. There is a generalization that the longer one has been on medication and/or insulin, the longer it can take to resolve (but, of course, not always - YMMV.) My wife had been on medication for it for around twenty years and just short of needing insulin when she had her DS (which is a stronger treatment for diabetes, with typical remission rates in the 98-99% range) and it still took her the better part of a year to be off all of her diabetes meds. So, there is still hope yet, as frustrating as it may be to see others walk out of the hospital free of those meds.