Solve Your Diabetes Problems with LAP-BAND
If you or your loved one is affected by type 2 diabetes, below you may find the information useful in determining whether the lap-band procedure is something to consider as a solution.
What Is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic condition marked by high blood sugar levels. While there are multiple reasons why and how your sugar levels may spike out of proportion, the general cause is the body’s failure to absorb glucose from the blood stream. Depending on the direct reason for malabsorption, doctors recognize three types of diabetes:
- Type 1 diabetes – This particular kind of diabetes results from your body not producing hormone responsible for glucose uptake from the blood stream (insulin). While the origin of the condition is still unknown, type 1 diabetes can be controlled with insulin injections.
- Type 2 diabetes – Also called non-insulin dependent diabetes, is a condition characterized by insulin resistance or insulin deficiency. While the type 1 diabetes is believed to be caused mostly by genetic factors, the onset of type 2 diabetes is mostly caused by the combination of environmental and genetic factors. Most often it is associated with sedentary lifestyle and diet high in fat and sugars. Of the varieties of diabetes, type 2 is the most common. It can happen at any age and is often preventable.
- Gestational diabetes – Diagnosed in pregnant women who showing high blood levels despite no such symptoms prior to pregnancy.
The Causes and Diagnosis of Diabetes
If you are concerned you may have diabetes, you should contact your primary doctor to test your blood for sugar levels and final diagnosis. While some of the patients never experience any signs of being diabetic, most of them show some of the symptoms such as:
- Increased thirst
- Increased hunger
- Frequent urination
- Weight loss
- Fatigue
- Sores
- Blurry vision
- Frequent infection
- Darkened skin
To determine whether you are a diabetic your doctor will most probably order a fasting blood glucose test, which is currently the easiest, fastest, and cheapest way to diagnose diabetes. The fasting glucose test is nothing else than simply checking your blood glucose levels after you’ve gone without food for at least eight hours. Because of mandatory eight hour fasting, it’s better that you schedule your doctor’s appointment first thing in the morning.
Depending on the levels of glucose in blood and any other symptoms, your primary care doctor will determine whether you have diabetes or not. By looking at your blood glucose levels, your doctor may diagnose you as pre-diabetic. This will mean that despite your sugar levels are higher than normal, they are not high enough for you being diagnosed with diabetes. If you were diagnosed with pre-diabetes, remember that now is the best time to act. With some weight loss and moderate physical activity you can significantly delay or even prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 Diabetes and The Lap-Band
The connection between pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes and excess weight is still undetermined. Nevertheless, doctors agree that if you are significantly overweight, you have ten times higher chances of developing type 2 diabetes than someone without weight problems. The good news is that, early stages of type 2 diabetes as well as pre-diabetes, can be easily treated with diet modifications and weight loss. Because lap-band has been so successful in helping thousands of patients to lose weight and keep it off, no wonder it is so effective in treating diabetes.
How can lap-band help with your diabetes exactly? After you have lap-band and begin losing weight, your body will become more sensitive to the insulin you naturally produce. Therefore the uptake of sugar circulating in your blood stream will increase directly improving your type 2 diabetes. In addition, depending on the time of duration of your condition, lap-band may be able to help increase the amount of insulin your body produces. This can be achieved by changing your lifestyle to one promoting insulin producing cells recovery. Remember, the less advanced your diabetes is, the less likely it is to cause insulin cell damage.
For the past decade, hundreds of type 2 diabetics and pre-diabetic DayOne Health patients experienced how effective lap-band can be in controlling or beating their diabetes. If you have any questions regarding lap-band and type 2 diabetes don’t hesitate to contact us.
Treating Diabetes
When correcting diabetes, diet and exercise are fundamental. It’s no accident that these are also the necessary steps to treat obesity — and for diet modifications, the lap-band can help a patient address the quantity of food he or she consumes. Diabetes treatment can include:
- Diet modifications: meal plans are a very important step
- More exercise: increased activity can help lessen the effects or slow the progression of diabetes; sugar is processed more efficiently in those who exercise
- Treatment of obesity: nutrition and exercise modifications, and such treatments as the lap-band
- Blood sugar monitoring: ensure the disease is under control
- Insulin injections: mostly for type 1 diabetes, though some type 2 diabetes patients require insulin as well
If not controlled, diabetes can cause serious health complications, including:
- Neurological damage
- Eye damage
- Foot damage
- Skin, mouth, bone, and joint problems
- Cardiovascular disease
- Kidney damage
- Various conditions in the fetus and the mother for those who contract gestational diabetes
Diabetic Patients in Chicago Can Now Get LAP-BAND!
Laparoscopic adjustable banding surgery, or lap-band, is available at DayOne Health, your Chicago source for the least-invasive and safest bariatric surgery available. If you meet the criteria to be a candidate for the lap-band procedure, get in touch with DayOne Health to see if the lap-band can help you fight excess weight and control your diabetes symptoms.
Contact a LAP-BAND Specialist in Chicago!
If you would like to hear more about DayOne Health or to schedule a consultation, please call us at (312) 239-3838. You can also schedule your free consultation using this website.
- Dixon JB, O’Brien PE. Health outcomes of severely obese type 2 diabetic subjects 1 year after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. Diabetes Care. 2002; 25:358-363.
