CTGirl08

My insurance card had a specific pre-authorization phone number on it- but in general you can call customer service and ask for the pre-auth department. I worked in Medical Billing for years so I spent many hours on the phone with them.

And yes, for my sleeve surgery I called everyday to check the status :)

You call the customer service line and ask for the authorization department

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I just did this on Friday. I called the regular customer service line.

OMG is right!! That’s incredible! Congrats George!

Here I am at my highest and my lowest let me know what you think. Starting weight 387 current weight 230. Just bought my first pair of 36 jeans down from a size 50. And still losing yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heres mine me at my biggest of 425lbs, then a the full body was oct of 2013 and the head shot was new years eve

Ok I finally found a pre picture so I will try to upload them.
The teal dress is a size 10!

Before/ during (posted in another thread previously)

My doctor said no alcohol for 18 MONTHS! I never planned on following this bc I’ve researched and he’s the only one who has that long of a wait time. I do plan on waiting a few months tho. Since the sugar is part of the problem, I plan on drinking vodka and Water and bring a sugar-free koolaid squeeze thing with me. It’s the lowest sugar drink you could have. Someone said vodka and soda but I thought carbonation was super bad for us...isn’t it?

Um, your response is incredibly rude. You don't know me AT ALL. How could you possibly get from my original post that I have an alcohol dependence problem?? I gave you ONE day of information and not even full information of what I ate, just the calories. I had white wine, on one night. Not a nightly thing at all. I've read a lot of your posts and they've always been friendly and you've always given good advice or feedback to questions. I'm truly shocked and disappointed by your judgmental response.

Just need to vent for a second. I’m so frustrated.

My bariatric group requires 6 months of nutrition, psych evaluation and an exercise class. It won’t schedule surgery until after you’ve completed everything. As an attorney, it’s really hard to book things on my calendar with no real idea when the surgery would be. But I was told that surgery is often 4-6 weeks after the last nutrition appt. Mine was 6/25, so I was thinking late July to early August.

I finish the last NUT and she tells me they’ll submit it to insurance. But then they come back and say, oh there’s all this blood work you need to do too. I was frustrated because I could’ve already done that if they’d told me I needed to. Especially since some stuff they test for, like H-Pylori, takes time to treat.

I took the tests and thankfully everything was great...except my white blood cell count was high. Turns out I was diagnosed with a sinus infection the day after I went for the blood work. I just finished the antibiotics today, but the doc said I should be fine to be retested over this past weekend. I waited till Tuesday for good measure and it turns out it went up (only slightly), not down. My WBC was totally normal just in March, so it’s not that I “run high” as some say.

I’m sure it’s just that I’m still somewhat fighting the infection and it’ll go down soon but it’s surprising it hadn’t gone down at all. And it’s so frustrating that I now have to get tested again. But I don’t want to go too soon and risk it still being too high. So how long do I wait?

And I still don’t understand why I can’t get a date. Obviously if the WBC doesn’t come down, it’d have to get cancelled. But it’s totally screwing with my job and the people I work with to have no idea when this is happening.

Thanks for letting me vent.

@CTGirl08 I finally get to submit for approval Monday and I'm frustrated about tests as well. I don't know if it's my surgeon or my insurance who dictates the order of things. I don't get any labs, tests, endoscopy any of that until after I've gotten my approval, date and begin my pre op diet. I find that odd, why begin diet and set a date if the tests determine if it's going to happen. I totally understand and with your schedule that's just an added stress in the mix! Good luck, I hope it works out for you and fits in your timeline!

So glad you got the call xx

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Just sharing my progress with you guys! Hope everyone is doing great!

Glass baby food jars. When you get to pureed stage, it’s great to be able to have jars with just the right portion for a meal. I can write the calories/carbs/fat/protein on the lid and it washes off for next use.

For the first time in eight years, I am a NON-smoker! After I attended the initial seminar for WLS, I decided I had to quit cold turkey or else I knew my surgeon wouldn’t even consider me a candidate. I am in the very early stages of my weight loss journey and decided it was never to early to start preparing myself for gastric bypass. To be honest, it has been much easier than I anticipated and I should have done it years ago (or never started smoking in the first place🙄) but I am so, so terrified that I’ll give in to a craving and waste all my hard work. I’m even more terrified that I’ll have the surgery, and then go back to smoking afterwards and die from an ulcer😳 Are there any other former smokers who have struggled with this anxiety? Any tips or tricks?

I had a NSV tonight that made me smile...my bath towel wrapped all the way around me without any gaps

My boobies stick out further than my belly!!!

I had a friend pick me up today to run errands. I kept catching her looking at me out of the corner of my eye. Finally, she says ” I know it's only been a few weeks now, but I can totally see it—you look good.” ☺️☺️☺️

At an amusement park now that I’m 53 pounds down. I can fit in all the rides! Sadly, I’m older and some of them make me sick now. Lol!

Omg, this just happen to me the other day. The lady asked me if I was using someone else's ID. She stated it looked nothing like me. In fact I had to show her a couple of ID's so she would believe me. Lol

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I have a car but live in the city, so sometimes don't actually use the car for a couple weeks at a stretch. A few weeks ago I got into the car and realized all the mirrors were significantly off. I had to reorient all of them - side mirrors, rearview mirror. Was really annoyed that I'd somehow hit buttons and screwed up the mirrors until I realized: I'd had to tilt them all downwards the exact same degree.
I'd lost enough on my hips and ass since the last time I'd been in the car to literally shrink a few inches and thrown all of the mirror angles off.

I love going to the theatre, but I haven't been going much because I couldn't fit in the seats. Well, I decided to try it last Friday, and I fit just fine and I was comfy! So happy that I can go see more shows!

On a business trip, went to a rooftop bar with coworkers. One of the guys finds the stairs and heads on up, and we're following, and on the fourth flight my (very slim) coworker stops to catch her breath and I realize: I'm not panting at all. I'm not sweating, I'm not needing a break, I can very easily walk up another flight to the roof bar and won't need any time to recover or ANYTHING.
And I'm doing it in 4 inch platforms.