Can I have metabolic surgery to lose weight and treat diabetes if I have been diagnosed with diabetes?

Nowadays, the incidence of diabetes is very high, and another phenomenon is that more than half of the diabetic patients are now overweight or obese. According to my cases, most of such diabetic patients are due to unresolved obesity problems in the early stages, which eventually led to elevated blood sugar. Patients or family members who have a detailed understanding of diabetes treatment will know that in addition to conventional oral hypoglycemic drugs and insulin injections, there is also a surgical treatment for diabetes – gastric diversion surgery, which I actually prefer to call metabolic corrective surgery. However, those who know about this surgery will, on first impression, think of it as bariatric surgery. This inevitably leads patients to ask, is it really okay to have such a surgery for diabetics with high blood sugar? Will the blood sugar really normalize after the surgery? To tell you, surgery to treat diabetes such surgery, the earliest is used in the field of weight loss, just a chance to find that the operation of the fat friend’s blood sugar has returned to normal, and then gradually in the treatment of diabetes can be applied and unfolded. However, in the past, there was a single type of surgery, but our hospital has improved and upgraded it, and now there are four main types of surgery that can be carried out, and the one that each person ultimately chooses must be the one that suits him/her the most, which is one of the factors to ensure the effectiveness of the surgical treatment. Meanwhile, we tell you that surgical treatment has now become one of the routine methods, and our national “Chinese Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes” clearly recommends that patients who are suitable for the conditions should undergo surgical treatment. But also re-emphasize that the conditions for surgery are very harsh, seem to meet the conditions, do the examination may not be able to do. Therefore, if you want to do the surgery, you should do it before it is too late, don’t wait until the opportunity is gone, and then regret it will be of no help.