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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Giblet" data-source="post: 195383" data-attributes="member: 10453"><p>It's the bypassing of approximately 1 metre of bowel that has the effect of "curing" the diabetes. I am four weeks away from surgery at St Georges Tooting. I'm having a Roux-En-Y Bypass and hopefully this will cure my diabetes immediately, but although this is a nice by product of the surgery, it is in fact to help me to control my weight. No-one enter into having this operation lightly as it is major surgery, but just being told to eat less will not work once someone is as "addicted" to food as I am. There was reference to a trial recently that showed that once a certain weight had been achieved by a patient, there was a 98 percent chance of that person relapsing and becoming heavier, however much dieting, CBT or other therapy was given (obviously not including surgery)</p></blockquote><p></p>

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