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I'm still in shock. I am 23 years old, have a BMI of 36 and am on medication for high cholesterol and GERD. I was worried that insurance wouldn't approve me because I do not have a BMI of 40.

My first appointment ever with the surgeon was on June 18th. I found out I was approved this past Wednesday, and I am still in shock! I first saw the surgeon, in June and got my list of "to dos". I did the barium swallow, EKG and sleep study all by mid July. Then I saw the nutritionist twice, and she cleared me! Lastly I saw the psychiatrist at the beginning of August who cleared me as well. I saw the nutritionist once again for an education appointment, and met with the surgeon to review all of my test results. He told me last Tuesday I was cleared and that we would be submitting to insurance. They submitted this past Tuesday and I called Tufts on Wednesday (one day later) to make sure they received my paperwork for them to already tell me I was approved!!!!!!! I am ecstatic! I will be having my surgery in October I believe. I call tomorrow to book my date!!! I am over the moon excited!
PS: for those who have Tufts, they no longer require the 6 month I can change program..they just require surgery be "medically necessary"

I'm still in shock. I am 23 years old, have a BMI of 36 and am on medication for high cholesterol and GERD. I was worried that insurance wouldn't approve me because I do not have a BMI of 40.

My first appointment ever with the surgeon was on June 18th. I found out I was approved this past Wednesday, and I am still in shock! I first saw the surgeon, in June and got my list of "to dos". I did the barium swallow, EKG and sleep study all by mid July. Then I saw the nutritionist twice, and she cleared me! Lastly I saw the psychiatrist at the beginning of August who cleared me as well. I saw the nutritionist once again for an education appointment, and met with the surgeon to review all of my test results. He told me last Tuesday I was cleared and that we would be submitting to insurance. They submitted this past Tuesday and I called Tufts on Wednesday (one day later) to make sure they received my paperwork for them to already tell me I was approved!!!!!!! I am ecstatic! I will be having my surgery in October I believe. I call tomorrow to book my date!!! I am over the moon excited!
PS: for those who have Tufts, they no longer require the 6 month I can change program..they just require surgery be "medically necessary"

Hi everyone. I'm a 23 year old female. I weigh 221 pounds. I also am on medication for high cholesterol and GERD. I have met with the surgeon and initially thought I FOR SURE wanted the gastric sleeve surgery. I am now leaning towards gastric bypass after meeting someone who was my age and my size when she had gastric bypass and she had excellent long-term results. I am really torn and obviously need to make a decision before my surgeon submits everything to insurance. Thoughts?

I love this page because we are all in the same place! I can't wait until we all have our dates! This is really exciting to be able to be on our journeys together!

"Be curious, not judgmental"
--Walt Whitman
Please be kind to each other on this site - aren't all of us trying to stay positive about perhaps the hardest things we have ever done? I know I am. I come to this site for inspiration and answers - not to read others being negative about others' choices. Be respectful please. You don't have to agree with what others do, but no need to hate. This is hard enough.

@@Ms. Reid
"Deal with it Babe"?
Thank you for that very well articulated response regarding the correlation of smoking Marijuana and it's effects on post Bariatric surgery patients. I also appreciated your well thought out response and obvious expertise about the dangers of addiction and addiction transfer post WLS. Your critical thinking skills must be the envy of all your peers.
I'll bet you're fun at parties.

I have to agree, once a week is not frequent, funny thing is that I have not smoked for the last month because is something that I can stop at free will. To me an addiction is something you can't willingly stop on your own, such as tobacco users who can smoke up to a pack a day. I have recently stopped just because I don't need it, just like I don't need wine - While several months ago, I was having wine every week, I now have wine maybe once every three months, but with Marijuana being so widely used and now being legalized in several states, I was just curious. I am sure everyone has their own perception, and I have agreed for myself that smoking marijuana would not be best for me after surgery, but I would welcome open minded perspectives to this subject on those that have used it and what was the experience.

I had to have the barium swallow because I have acid reflux..they said they do it for everyone though to get an accurate view of the path of your systems because that's important regarding this surgery

Hi! I believe I will be having surgery in September. Not sure how it works for other surgeons but my plan goes like this..I just had my first appointment last week with him. We did pre-op blood work and scheduled all my appointments for barium swallow, sleep study, 2 appointments with a nutritionist, one appointment with a psychiatrist and then they submit it to insurance. They said my insurance takes about a week to approve and then we schedule 2 weeks out or so from there for the surgery. So it definitely sounds like mid-late September. I am so anxious to get this process going. Afraid to lose weight because I'm only a BMI of 35.6 right now but I do have comorbidities.

Hi! I believe I will be having surgery in September. Not sure how it works for other surgeons but my plan goes like this..I just had my first appointment last week with him. We did pre-op blood work and scheduled all my appointments for barium swallow, sleep study, 2 appointments with a nutritionist, one appointment with a psychiatrist and then they submit it to insurance. They said my insurance takes about a week to approve and then we schedule 2 weeks out or so from there for the surgery. So it definitely sounds like mid-late September. I am so anxious to get this process going. Afraid to lose weight because I'm only a BMI of 35.6 right now but I do have comorbidities.