Is surgical treatment of diabetes credible? Is it true?

  We have many patients who come back for follow-up after diabetes surgery, and they often say that the question they are asked most often by others is, “Is it true that surgery treats diabetes? Can I trust it?” . Some diabetic patients even look at our healed post-surgical diabetic patients and open their eyes and say, “No, it’s not possible.  Surgery for type 2 diabetes has actually been written into the diabetes treatment guidelines for a long time, and in foreign countries it was even written into the guidelines of internal medicine 10 years ago. In China, surgery for obese type 2 diabetes has become a medical-surgical consensus, and for overweight friends who have poor glycemic control can also choose surgery, if your BMI > 27.5 and your glycemic control is poor, it is recommended that you have surgery, because after surgery 80% about of patients are free from drugs and return to full normal. From the 2nd International Forum on Weight Loss and Metabolic Surgery, we can see that surgery for diabetes has become the most effective treatment both abroad and on the mainland, far surpassing the effectiveness of medical medication.  There are often people who are afraid of surgery and worried about the safety of surgery, but in fact, this surgery is already very safe in mature centers, and there are no serious complications in our Jiangsu Provincial People’s Hospital Bariatric Center until now, and the recovery is smooth, and we can be discharged from the hospital after 3 days.  Some people worry about malnutrition after surgery, but in fact, patients can adjust themselves to overweight or normal weight after surgery, and if you follow the instructions of the medical staff, there will be almost no long-term complications during regular follow-up. Quantitative vitamin and iron supplements, etc. In fact, the complications after surgery are almost minimal compared to the complications of diabetes, just like we have patients who are already blind or have bad kidney function before regretting that they have islet cell failure and often lose the opportunity to have surgery.  Surgery for type 2 diabetes is not a myth, nor is it suitable for all doctors or all patients. The Chinese Society of Bariatric and Diabetic Surgeons (CSMBS) calls on patients to go to larger hospitals for surgery, as well as to centers of excellence, for better safety and results.