Thaindian News

July 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In recent years, scientists have made the discovery that diabetes virtually disappears after a patient undergoes surgery for obesity, which has led more and more diabetics to consider the procedure as a way to alleviate the symptoms of the chronic disease for good.

In patients who were obese, undergoing gastric bypass surgery has been proven to be a miracle to those who suffer from the symptoms of diabetes. Sugar levels return to normal rather quickly and patients are often able to go off of their medications completely.

Take the case of Cristina Iaboni for example. Iaboni battled diabetes for almost ten years, taking insulin shots, and other medications and still her blood sugar remained out of control. She began to search the internet for a new way to alleviate the life threatening symptoms of her disease, and found a story about a doctor who was performing weight loss surgery to cure diabetes.

Iaboni was not morbidly obese, just a tad overweight, so it was not clear if the procedure would even work for her. Her surgeon is one of very few who are breaking the normal rules of who can have the surgery to include those who may not be as heavy, but need help for diabetes.

She underwent the surgery last fall in the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center as part a research group’s attempt to see if it would work for someone her size. Her stomach was stapled to a thumb-sized pouch which will hold less food, so that she eats less.

Iaboni is now 50 pounds smaller, and has stopped taking her medications for diabetes. Her blood sugar has returned to almost normal. “I didn’t care if I lost any weight. I just wanted the diabetes to go away,” the 45 year old mom with two teens stated.