djgirl19

Hey all, I got my date yesterday for VSG on 6/4 and I am...in disbelief. I’ve struggled my whole life as many can relate to here. I did lose a large amount of weight in my late teens and 20s but after an accident that stopped my workouts and having kids and emotionally eating though a lot of sh&$ in the last 10-15 years I am bigger than ever and this was my last hope. I am excited and a little scared but ready to not be obese anymore. I started almost 18 months ago. 1 insurance change, 1 hospital change and 3 doctors later, I have a plan and a date.

Just got my date today. Scheduled for 6/4. It took over a year but I made it this far and am glad to join the June club. ☺️

Yep-Schumacher. You must be in town here too!:) they switched me to Brown. I liked him ok at the seminar I had to attend but damn his ratings are low and my original surgeon who I was referred to said he would only recommended Schumacher. I don’t think it means he wouldn’t recommend Brown just that he didn’t know anyone else. My issue is his comments online.

Thanks for the support everyone. I’m not going to rule him out yet but it’s major surgery and I need to trust the person doing it. It helps not feeling like the only one with such a long battle to get surgery. I have a 50 BMI and seeing so many much lower than that getting surgery makes me feel like the universe just wants me to fail. I’m doing this because my health is rapidly declining and the delay after delay is scaring me. Thanks for letting me vent.

Yes, it’s just so frustrating. This journey started for me with a plan that was supposed to cover surgery but an employer that opted out so I got my hopes up to get shot down. Then a wait to switch insurance. Then once it was switched I had to switch docs/hospitals. Shot down again. Had to start over from the very beginning even though I had completed the insurance requirements with the first hospital. Then once I was approved with the new dr but waiting for my date they call me with this news and tell me at least another month to wait and a new approval needed. All the while I can’t smile or even drink without drooling out the side of my mouth right now. I’m a complete mess and just sitting here in self pity. I know it will get better but I am having a hard time Deciding what to do about this surgeon. Going from a Dr with 4 star ratings online to one at 2.5 is not appealing to me. I mean what is it this guy has done to make everyone so unhappy?? I’m concerned about it. I can’t lie. But I only have a few surgeons to choose from thanks to UHC. :(

So annoyed and frustrated right now. After over a year of waiting and coming to seminars, groups, pre ops etc and then insurance saying I had to use a different surgeon due to COE requirements I was one appointment away from scheduling. Everything approved and had a single pre op class left in a few weeks. Just got a call today that my SECOND surgeon resigned. Now they have to resubmit with another COE surgeon at this COE. New surgeons ratings online are considerably lower. I mean I’m not so desperate I want just anyone rearranging my internal organs?. I’m so angry and frustrated with this process I’m losing hope. On top of this I was in the ER just a couple days ago and diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy. So half my face is paralyzed. I’m so low right now I can’t see any light at the end of the tunnel. Just feeling very hopeless and needed to vent where other people may have dealt with the same red tape and hurdles and hopelessness.