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mswisdom

Gastric Sleeve Patients
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  1. I'm having mines done with Dr. Elizabeth Salzberg at Bon Secours Maryview Hospital in Portsmouth.

    Hey...everytime I read Dr. Salzberg I was like 'man this chick is busy'. Little did I know ya'll were referring to a man. Lol

    Good to know that there's people my area on this journey.

    Im looking at pay Sept./ early Oct.

    I have to get my Protein & Iron up so after I retake some labs in the next few weeks I'll get my date. All other test are done and only 2 more PCP visits.


  2. I have PCIP here in Virginia and the first thing I did after they said that they pay for surgery is for them to email me the criteria for surgery.

    They emailed it to me and once I went to my first weight loss seminar the surgery scheduler told me everything that was required for surgery.

    6 months PCP visits (I'm on month 4)

    Physh clearance

    Dietician appt.

    Chest xray

    Ekg

    Lab work

    Cardiac clearance (I have stents)

    The actual program I'm going through wants

    1 group meeting

    Mammogram

    Colonoscopy

    And $120 for 6 1hr personal training sessions.

    All of my things are done, except the PCP visits. They said they would pull my records in month 5 for submitting but my PCP doesn't work fridays and my July appt. was pushed to August 1st.

    That's no big deal because my albumin & Iron is low so they gave me 4 weeks to bring the numbers up with Protein shakes and Iron pills. Other than that I'm ready to go.

    Hopefully I'll have a date by the middle of August when my labs are redond, I'll keep you posted.


  3. I'm apologizing in the beginning if this typing appears small. I had issues like that on the Vertical Sleeve site when typing from my phone.

    I just found out today that I have bad reflux so my surgeon won't do the gastric sleeve. I never had heartburn so I couldn't understand it. Anyway she said she'll have to do the RYN bypass instead so I joined this forum.

    My thoughts are all over the place at this moment for I've been geared up for the sleeve all this year.

    I'm coming here for support.

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