What's Been Going On
By JasonSWrench
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So, here's what's been going on in Lap-Band world for me.
Last Thursday I went in for my upper endoscopy. Overall, not a bad experience. They were very nice and the whole thing went very quickly. The last thing I remember was the anesthesiologist saying "This may sting a little" - and I was out.
When I woke up 20 minutes later, the nurse assisting my GI was packing up the equipment. He showed me the pictures and my GI came in and told me what she found.
Basically, unbeknownst to me, I actually have some serious Gastric Reflux issues. Apparently, she found ulceration and scaring in my lower esophagus. I know I had a little Gastric Reflux occasionally, but usually I would pop a couple of tums and be perfectly fine.
She decided to put me on a drug for the Gastric Reflux and I get to go see her again in two months for another upper endoscopy (lucky me!!!).
Of course, by the next day I had lots of questions. I called her office and got ahold of one of her office staff who was able to go over the report with me. Thankfully, my GI doesn't think that her findings will prevent me from having the surgery and ultimately when the surgery occurs is something that will be left up to the surgeon.
Speaking of the surgeon, I go into finally meet the surgeon tomorrow. I'm just hoping that the GI report gets to him by tomorrow. Other than the GI report, I have flown through every hoop they have sent my way. I should know tomorrow when I'm going to be scheduled for surgery. Of course, getting scheduled for surgery and then getting approved by my insurance company are two unrelated issues.
I just find this process a little backwards. I have to go through all the hoops, and then hope that the insurance company goes along with the idea. My surgeon's office has a really good history of getting patients accepted by their insurance companies, but I'm not going to be completely happy until I'm laying in a recovery room.
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