QueenOfTheTamazons

Right?! Especially considering they took medical patients. If we had $2500 (in reality $5000 for both my husband and myself) to throw around we woukdnt have medical. I would think that they woukd have a sliding scale for medical patients. Plus, most of the "benefits" of their lifestyle management program wouldnt be available to us because we live 1.5 hours away.

I wasnt specifically meaning exercise. I meant the WLS journey in general. My husband and I are both getting the surgery done, with him following a month or so later. I wasnt specifically meaning exercise. I meant the WLS journey in general. My husband and I are both getting the surgery done, with him following a month or so later.

Im a 10/fiver!

I am October 5th too! I managed to get my insurance company to cover it though. Way to go grandparents!

A lot of people around here (Sac area of NorCal) use facebook posts to advertise clothes to sell and/or garage sales. There was a woman selling her 3x-6x clothes and she had over 50 people respond. Also, last time i was doing the 2 week preop diet I bought premade shakes from Sams Club. They allowed me to return them if I only used 1-2 of the bottles. I only took advantage of that on th strawberry shakes but it was nice to know we had tbat option.

You should also consider getting your better pieces tailored. The woman you tailored the costumes and my dress for our Halloween wedding only charges $10 for alterations. You can save some money by having pieces taken in rather than going full new.

I understand. I started the process in April 2015. I have medical and the only bariatric doctor they covered was over an hour away. Medical requires 6 consectutive months of doctor supervised weight loss. I worked with bariatric dr to do those monthly visits with my primary care. It took a year to get everything done. In April 2016, I ended up switching surgeons due to first dr having a $2500 management. It took my 1st dr 2 months and 7 requests to send my medical records. It then took 4 attempts to get the insurance company to approve my surgery. I kept being turned down as not medically nessisary, even though i am 380lbs, diabetic, complex sleep apnea, gout, edema, ostoarthritis and high blood pressure. They then said that i hadnt proved that i tried a non surgical approach. In the end i had to get my primary care dr to write a letter stating tbat we discussed diet and exercise in our monthly meetings (even though the chart notes said that) and a 3 page letter that discribed my family history of obesity related diseases and a 10 year history of my diet plans and outcomes. My insurance company finally approved me... 3 days after my insurance ran out. I thought it was hopeless because I didnt think that I would qualify for medical and no insurance that I could afford would cover the surgery without a high copay. But things all worked out for me and in 2 weeks I will be getting my sleeve. I know it will work out for you. My advice - Is there someone above your doctor? Unless they own their own practice there likely is. Try talking the them. You can also do what i did and write your own letter to the ins co and have tbe bari dr turn it in. You can describe you struggles, your attempts. You can talk about how your dr doesnt approve if the surgery, so is witholding the docs that would get you approved. The most you lose is a few hours of time. My bari drs nurse said the letter I sent was the reason the ins company changed their minds. Msybe it will help you too.

Thanks for the info. My boss is being really cool. I am the one pushing the return. Partly because of money but mostly because I am the only AP person in our understaffed accounting department. My coworkers are going to have to pick up the slack.... and mess up my system. Lol.

I do. Accounts Payable. I sit at a desk 90% of the day. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using the BariatricPal App

My sleeve is schedule for Wednesday October 5th. I will be taking off the Tuesday 4th for pre-op. My husband is going to pick me up Friday and I'm going to spend Saturday and Sunday in bed. I've worked it out with my boss to go back to work Monday for as many hours as I can handle. She is very understanding and much less optimistic then I am. I'm estimating 4 hours I of work Monday, Tuesday Wednesday and moving to 6 hours on Thursday and Friday. I would like to be back at 8 hours a day by the following Monday (13 days post op). I am using all my sick time, comp time and vacation to cover my salary. I don't make enough money to be able to take weeks off at a time. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using the BariatricPal App

Im on my second doctor. I have Medical and the doctor they sent us to has a $2500 life style maintence fee that has to be paid in full prior to scheduling. My new doctor is 3 hours away, but only charges $300 and provides the liquid meals for the two week preop diet. My surgery is scheduled for one day shy of 18 months since I started the process. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using the BariatricPal App

I start the preop liquid diet. My surgery is scheduled for 10/5. Its my second time. My insurance denied me at the last minute the time before. Everyone keeps asking if i am nervous, but im oddly not. Maybe when i get closer to the date i will freak out. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using the BariatricPal App