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msjoy83

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    Msjoy83 who was your dr and what hospital did you go to.And did you have horizon nj health?

    My Dr. Was and is Angela Glasnap loveee her. Surgery was at Overlook hospital in summit. Love the staff there so courtesy and supportive. Insurance I have Amerihealth EPO NJ. Anything else feel free to ask :-). Just left the center for my 1 week check up everything is great. Lost 9 lbs in 6 days yayy

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    Hi, I have horizon nj health also. I just made appt. With Dr. Paragi, please tell me the process and how long everything took from your first appt. My appt is September 12th. How was your surgery and recovery?

    Hi well I'm now 6 days post op, my 1 week check up is actually today. I started my process back in the early days of May 2014. I could have been sleeved as early as July 14th but I wanted to give my jobs enough time to find extra help. My recovery is going amazing each day it truly gets better. Remember Protein protein!

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    soon enough! i was super scared and excited and now i feel as though i should have done this ages ago! can't wait to weigh in at my post-op appt this thursday morning!!

    Congratulations and may you have a fantastic weigh in. I go tomorrow morning to do my dr. Consent forms and then the weight begins.

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    i had my surgery on 6/25 with dr. angela glasnapp at overlook in summit. she also removed my gallbladder. she was truly amazing. i was home the next day and have been out and about all weekend. my new tummy has been handling everything quite well and i'm so glad i went to njbc. good luck to you and laynie!!!

    Congratulations! Hope to be where you are soon lol. I'm super excited

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    No date yet. The surgeon told me at my appt Friday that they will plan a date for about 2 weeks after my 6 month appt. So I am thinking end of October, early November.

    Laynie

    Ok great they wanted to schedule mine for early next month I opted for end of July. Do you know who your surgeon will be?

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    @@msjoy83 I am going through NJ Bariatric as well. I am 5'8 and 379 lbs. I am about halfway through the 6 month waiting period required by my insurance UHC. At first I was annoyed by the wait, but now I see i need that time to get ready mentally for this change!

    Laynie

    Laynie do you have a surgery date yet? I just did my pre surgery class on Thursday

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    Yayyy an NJ group! Ok I'm in North Jersey going through the pre dawn stages ( consultation, appointments, seminars). I'm going through NJ Bariatric center. My insurance is Amerihealth EPO. I'm 4'11 and 206 lbs. Thank you for creating this forum it will definitely bring more people from NJ together to share their experience. Good luck to us all.

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    It seems everyone in this forum has BCBS...we don't have that in common but we do have NJ Bariatric Center in common. I went to the seminar at Overlook on the 10th of May. Dr. Goyal was very informative. If anyone has Amerihealth please let's talk lol thanks and good luck to us all.

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    Correct, my insurance required nutrition class, BMI requirement of 40 or higher unless I had something like diabetes, a psych evaluation and of course the surgeon is going to need lab work, EKG, and chest x-ray. If older than 50, my surgeon requires a stress test.

    O my cardiologist ordered a stress test. He was definitely trying to talk me out of surgery smh I know he meant well but it's my choice.

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    At first I wasn't sure whether to be excited or worried at the lack of clearances. But my hospital has 4 surgeons performing sleeves since 2011 and has only had 2 leaks/complications. I considered that pretty good and they are also a Center of Excellence, so I'm confident that they know what they're doing.

    I will have to have a pre-op EKG and blood panel at the hospital a week before surgery.

    Good luck to you!

    Thank you, I did the blood work and had my cardio done last month, and also my radiology so I'm ready to go. Lol just means a faster date.

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    Hi everyone went to my 3rd consultation today with my 3rd dr. Finally feel right and comfortable with everything. My question is this the other 2 consultations the doctors wanted me to do pulmonary and gastrointestinal along with the others, cardio, radiology, nutrition, psych. Just wondering if anyone else didn't have to take pulmonary and gastrointestinal test also? Was always under the impression that was a mandatory part of the process.

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