tika76

Hi Tika! I had mine 1/9

Congrats! How are you feeling?

Hi Tika! I had mine 1/9

I like your name!!!! I'm having a revision... I had a really hard time with the band, I'm afraid of the dumping and malabsorption... What was your highest and lowest weight?

Hope my date is in January! !! Need to feel better

keep in touch

My date is Jan. 31....

20lbs down total since 11/6.. 11lbs from 12/27... Booooo...I was hoping for 20' date=' but a loss is a loss.. He said because I'm so small I won't see big numbers all the time..

I can start my soft food diet today! I can skip pureed food. I can have them if I want to but I don't have to![/quote']

Congrats!!!! If you don't mind me asking, what was your start weight before bypass?

My surgeon's office is in Cypress off of Huffmister..Dr. Jorge Leiva... I got aapproved in about a month!..

I actually live in the heights/oak forest area....

Where are you all from..Maybe we could all meet up once a week for a walk or coffee

That sounds great, please keep me posted

Hi! Congratulations!!!!! How do you feel?? What a way to end and start a new year!!

Good evening!

I'm in Cypress, I am doing a band to bypass revision on Jan.31 with Dr. St. Laurent...

Hi' date=' Is your band already out, or will it be done in one procedure?[/quote']

Happy New Years!!!!

Mine is gonna be done in 1 procedure, on the 31st... I'm beyond nervous but I feel that I'm making the best decision. After a failed band and a year and a half of misery... Good luck to everyone....

I have tricare once my pcm put the referal in and i met wiyh the surgeon it took two months to get the requirments done. Than i got his earliest surgery apt. I did mine at a military hospital though so that could be why it didnt take as long? Its going to be different for everyone. They let me do all my stuff in a two week time frame because my hubby is going to korea and i wanted to get it done before a certain time. But like i said its going to be different everywhere u go. People are going to requir differen things. Like i just had to do 3nutricion classes' date=' 3phyc evals, orientation, and 1 support group meetinf and i was good to go. Depends on ur surgoen.[/quote']

Congrats! How long ago and what your recovery like?

I am excited and ready for it to be over. My day is Monday 17th. I am first that morning. I asked my doc about the abdominal binder and said just to tell them in the O R before being put out and they will give me one and put it on me. Dr .Schmitt at St.VincentE Birmingham AL

Congrats! My revision is Jan. 24 and I am overly nervous... I wanted to ask the purpose of the binder?

I have Tricare Reserve Select and they said I had to do the 3 months of monitored weight loss' date=' not the dr. When you think of it that it took years to get all this weight on us.... 4 months for this "tool" to help you get it off isnt too long.

I know its hard to wait...trust me!! And my Dr's office can confirm...I am not long on patience!! But it's a process. Any surgeon you go to, unless you're paying cash up front will make you do what your insurance requires..... and tricare is set, they wont change the rules.... I tried!!

Best of luck, trust the process and let it work for you. The 3 months of weight loss and learning process you go through will be helpful, and the time will FLY by, promise!!

I started in April....my surgery is TODAY! It goes quick![/quote']

I too have tricare reserve select, I didn't have to do 3months when I did my band and they just approved me for band removal with bypass revision.... My surgeon suggested that I contact tricare myself and it worked, I'm thinking that the different regions have different guidelines, which makes no since.... Don't give up, call and harass them and make them understand the necessity.... I wish you the best if luck!!!