abrasher

I had the sleeve on September of 2012. I lost most of all my weight and loved my band. Never had any issues. Then in August of 2013 I started having a pain in my lower left side. My job I'm up and down a lot so it never registered with me I only had the pain when I would sit. After a million test to see what was wrong with me I finally went to see my band surgeon. The pain was lower than my port. In December I had the band moved over. Dr said that the port was sitting on a muscle and that was why I was having the pain. After surgery I still had pain I went back to visit my doctor and he told me that the insurance would not pay for me to have another weight-loss surgery due to the fact that my BMI was too low. I asked him to ask them anyway because I was having it due to complications from a surgery they already paid for not for bariatric reasons. Sure enough less than a week later insurance approved to have my band removed and they paid for the sleeve. I had Blue Cross Highmark and they paid for me to have 3 surgeries.