Weight-loss surgery and the effect on diabetes | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Health Columnist Judy Foreman | The Dallas Morning News

I absolutely despise articles like these …

 

Weight-loss surgery and the effect on diabetes | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Health Columnist Judy Foreman | The Dallas Morning News

 


Elizabeth Soto used to say no when her husband suggested they go dancing. “I didn’t want to go,” she would say. “I felt tired and ugly.” She also was carrying 314 pounds on her 5-7 frame and had Type 2 diabetes

 

One of my dear friends brought this article to school for me.

 

Of course, she couldn’t answer the two most important questions about the surgery:

 

a) How is the complication rate and in particular the death rate?

b) How much will it cost? 

 

Well the biggest answer is that our insurance won’t cover it, last time I looked.

 

And the complication rate scares the heck out of me.

Besides if my pancreatis hadn’t been damaged, going on the nuitrion protocol would probably make me not need insulin too.

 

None of the above was in the article at all.

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