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Thanks for the replies everyone! Linette that is great to hear too :-) Im still down the 5 pounds. Its pretty much in Gods hands at this point hhehehe but it sure is maddening at times!!!

thank you kind people! Does anyone know what criteria they use to determine if you are "100 lbs" overweight? I have seen that "metlife" chart, but there is a small frame, medium frame, and large frame. Then with in EACH frame, there is a low and high......................

thank you!!!!

thanks for the reply. As far as I have been able to find, tricare requires 100 pounds over weight, not BMI.............but someone on here somewhere did say tricare now uses BMI, so im not sure.

Went for a physical on the 6th. Just a routine physical. Doc "mentions" lapband. I have been mulling, and researching, and thinking and meditating like a fool since then. Doc orders cholesterol, diabetes, thyroid, et. tests, and I have had high bloodpressure too so a 5 day blood pressure test. Ok, so my husband and i come to the conclusion that i would LOVE to get the band. (its not like i haven't thought of WLS for the last 5 years) and its like ok what next. Well I have a "follow up" on Monday to discuss all the results. We plan on telling the doc we want to go foward with Lapband. (were military and our MTF does the procedure) I am ***** barely***** exactly 100 pounds over my weight according to metlife. Its been the hardest week of my life this last week, to NOT be on a diet!!!!! I am just like a fish out of water!!!!!! I've been on a diet every day of my life for the last 12 years!!!!!! So, Im NOT trying to gain, just not trying to lose................and its so hard im a mess!!!!! AND GUESS WHAT??????????????? IM DOWN 5 POUNDS!!!!!! wha??????? lol. I want to be so excited but i just don't understand!!!!!!!! Its the 5 pounds that could make me INELIGEBLE for this surgery!!! How does this even happen??????? ARGH im sorry i just needed to vent i guess. Im so confused!!!!!!!

thanks kellyjoii ~ I think part of my confusion was I am just now "getting" that a MTF can do the surgery, and its not under tricare, but that specific MTF............THEN also tricare covers the procedure.......which can occur at a different hospital. That makes a diff i suppose.

thank you! Going to check now :-)

sorry im bumping this..............was really hoping to get some more answers!!!!! :thumbup:

MLBL............if you don't mind, may I ask what MTF you are using? Im trying really hard to find out what I can about William Beaumont, and so far havent' found anything. Im wondering how long the "average" waiting time is?

hmmm guess I'll have to wait to ask my doc. I go to the hospital on post, and never have to deal with tricare ~ I've only ever had to deal one time with being referred off post, and even then I never had to deal with tricare. So im really curious how it works if you get banded AT the MTF as a tricare prime benificiary. Thanks for your replies :confused:

thanks for the reply. May I ask if you are getting it done at a MTF? Or are you getting a refferel for civilian doc?

I am sitting here about to freak out, and just need some help please! Last week i had a physical, and my doc "mentioned" lap band procedure. I go to William Beaumont @ Fort Bliss (my hubby is active duty army) and he looked at my weight, and height and mentioned that WB now does the lapbands. I have been "thinking" about WLS for about 6 years now, and when he said that, I decided that it is now time, im not getting any younger Anyway, i have RESEARCHED and researched tricare primes policys, and all i can find is that they require you to be 100 lbs over weight (no BMI requirements) AND have a co-morbid. Well I do have high blood pressure, and Im going to find out if i have high cholesterol and blood sugar issues. (in other words im pretty sure i qualify with the co-morbids) HOWEVER...........according to the metlife chart i see, they have a range for my height of 5'6 as 140 - 159. I currently weigh 248..............so Im "with in" that range. But i saw a conversation on here somewhere (wish i could find it now!!!!! ) where someone said that they require you to be on the HIGHER limit of your range. If that is the case, I would be 11 pounds shy of qualifying. Does anyone have experience of getting lapband, under tricare prime AT A MTF???? Meaning not referred out, but at the actual army hospital? Now that Im very excited about getting qualified, I just want to cry that I could actually be denied because im right in the middle of my "height range"????????????? I dont' see the doc for another week, and i just don't feel like im going to make it..............lol............please someone HELP!!!!!!

I would be very interested to know of anyones experience with lap band surgery at William Beaumont AMC?

above is quote from OP I never tried to say one is better than the other, but that its NOT true that if you have a GB you can't eat sugar. I would think that if I were to have GB though, I would WANT to not be able to eat sugar. And many can't, but many can.

Im so glad I found this thread :biggrin: I am wondering if anyone has experience specifically with William Beaumont MTF (fort bliss)???? At my last appt, my doc "mentioned" lap band, and I also found out i've had high blood pressure for a while now, and am getting my cholesterol, and thyroid checked and checking my blood sugar level. I think my BMI was 39...............so im fairly sure i qualify. I have a follow up next week, and before I get too excited, I want to know if I have months and months wait, or if it is a fairly expedient process to go through? The doc told me Fort Bliss now does Lap Band and has 2 surgeons...