Airam13

Thank you very much. :tongue_smilie:

Thank you, I have to remind myself that I am doing this for me. I went to the dr yesterday and he said you might not ever get rid of it. Could read false positives. I had to do a "sample" and that will tell for sure. So have to wait another 3 days for the results. Keeping my fingers crossed :sad: I agree about the insurance. I told my dr. that in order to do this surgery I can not have a positive H-pylori test and he asked who the insurance was through and he said that was the stupidest thing he ever heard and they should know better lol.

Update - I had an endoscopy done and was on the anitbiotics for 2 weeks. Had a follow up blood test, and it still shows H-Pylori Have a Dr. appt tomorrow to see what to do next to try to get rid of this so I can get back on my lapband journey - very discouraged but still hanging in there. Want to get the ball rolling and start losing weight so my husband will come home to a new me

Thank you. I am trying to hang in there. I keep telling myself that it will be worth it.

Hello, I am new to this, so here goes. This is my story. 2 years ago I looked into lapband and talked myself right out of it for whatever reason.Then June of 09 I was at a party and was talking to one of my neighbors and one thing led to another and she told me she had labband surgery. Then I started looking into it again and started to get the ball rolling.Long story short, July started the process. I was hoping to have the surgery before the end of December for 2 reasons. 1 my husband wanted to be here with me before he got deployed and 2 we had to change insurance because of him being deployed. The one insurance we had, didn't have as many requirements as Tricare. The person who did the psychological evaluation took 5 1/2 weeks to complete it, so because of that I had to go under Tricare and now that we have Tricare, I had additional requirements to do. I did the blood test for H-pylori and that came back positive (just a trace) but because of that, I now have to see a G.I. doctor and have to take care of that before it can be submitted to the insurance co.I have almost given up several times, but my neighbor is very encouraging and I keep going. I feel like everytime, I get a step closer, I take 2 steps back. I am anxious to get this done, and start a healthier lifestyle. Has anyone else had any problems like this? Thank you for your time.