GLP-1 medications don’t work for everyone. A local doctor says surgery is still an option

When Jennie Mixon had gastric bypass surgery in February 2024, she weighed 245 pounds, and was a Type 2 diabetic in Stage 3 liver failure.

Today, the 53-year-old is no longer diabetic. She lost half of the weight, and she can keep up with her two young grandkids.

“They exhaust me, but it is a good exhaustion now, compared to what it was,” Mixon told WTOP.

Mixon, of Bowie, Maryland, said she was “failing miserably, healthwise.”

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