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I'm so wanting a February date, but March is around the corner. Not sure what to expect from UHC have heard so many positive and negative about their approval process. I know my surgeon should have everything by next Friday. I will call then to make sure that they have received all the paperwork and If I need to send anything further. I'm going to hate being on pins and needles until I hear that I have been approved. I just need to remember to breathe. LOL....

Yay! I successfuly completed all of my visits and psych eval (passed) Everything is finished. Just waiting for everything to be turned in to UHC. Fingers crossed and saying a few prayers.

PPI- Proton Pump Inhibitor. (Pepcid ,Zantac)

No support groups, just six months supervised diet and psych eval. My surgeon needed a gallbladder scan and full labs. Which were completed 1/7.

Hello everyone! I'm almost finished with the six month supervised diet and exercise. Also will have the eval with the pysch completed on the 21st. Then one more visit with my PCP then everything will be submitted to UHC. YAY!!!!!!! I'm hopeful that I can get a surgery date end of February or maybe the begining of March. (depending on how long the approval process takes and having to go and get pre-admitted at the hospital and schedule one more visit with the surgeon) I can not believe that it is almost here. Neither can my family. They have been so supportive. I know I can count on them being there for me. Including my extended family here on this forum. I will update once I know when I have a date. Thank you all for the information that is here for all of us that will soon be joining you soon on the looser's bench. Deb

That cut looks awesome on you!!! very nice! I could never pull that off. Too many curls.. lol..

I agree, I have told my family and they are very supportive and my closest and dear friends. One who which is also going through the six month required diet for the sleeve. I have decided at work ( my supervisor knows and of course HR will know when I have the surgery as I will do FMLA for the two week recovery period) Just to tell the ones noticing that I'm shrinking that I have started the atkins diet and walking and doing some yoga. (The people that I work with in my small department (8 people) know but they have forgotten all about it. No one mentions it. Which is okay with me. No big deal. ) I have only one more month and the eval with the shrink and I'm done and will be submitting to UHC. So I can surely understand where you are coming from. Good luck with your success!!!!!!

You look GREAT!!!! That is so awesome!!! I can not wait till I'm sleeved. ( and those lei's smell so wonderful! I vacationed on Oahu back in February.)

Congrats!!!!!

Congrats!!!! Can't wait until all of my paperwork has been submitted. Way to go!!!!

Understand completely! Haven't been sleeved yet, working on it. I told a few people at work about wanting surgery. One in particular seemed to believe that I need is to not think I'm hungry all the time. The funny thing is I'm not. I crave all the bad carbs. Which I have successfully cut out two evil's that have been my best friends for a long time. Dr. Pepper and Mountain Dew. Yep quit drinking both of my favorites cold turkey. Their replacement is decaf tea with splenda. Which has been for five months now. Not to mention that I have cut my bread intake to half of what I was use to eating. I have lost a few pounds. (Not enough to brag about.) With the help of the sleeve I'm hopeful to regain control of my eating habits and my life. So yes I know what you are talking about. Some will never understand what we go through day after day. Wishing all the best to you on your journey. Deb

That is what I was thinking. When I had it done, the procedure entailed not only the stomach muscle area but the flank and back area. (circumfrential abdominal plasty) Not only fat was removed but a lot of extra skin. They weighed both and a total of twenty eight pounds was removed. It was very painful. The surgeon that will be performing my VSG had asked why I did the tummy tuck first? My response, "seemed like the thing to do at the time and WLS wasn't even on my mind then." He chuckled and said."you did it backwards." I think I did it the right way. The tummy tuck was a three hour surgery which I awoke right in the middle of it and the surgeon yelling she is awake give her something quick!!!!! I had my follow up and he told me no more surgeries for me. I said, "why, is it because I woke up?" he didn't say a word. So that was so very strange waking up and hearing and SEEING but not feeling any pain. Oh so weird. Thanks for confirming that the weight loss shouldn't change.

Okay, someone told me that since I have had a tummy tuck ten plus years ago, that when I have the sleeve my weight loss will not be the same as if I never had the tummy tuck. I do not believe this. But if anyone knows of someone that has had a tummy tuck prior to their VSG I would like to hear from them. I just find this a little bit strange. I don't have a date yet, still have two visits left with my Doctor and the MMPI 2 test. Then ready to submit. Just wanted to throw that out there.

Happy Birthday!!!! Hope you have a great day!!!!

Just checking in to see how things are. Have you heard anything back from Dr. Jawad's office or UHC? ( I too have Dr. Jawad) I have to do the six month diet and exercise and the labs and the eval. Still have two more months with pcp. I know that my pcp has faxed things to Dr. Jawad. But she is waiting to send UHC their paperwork until my six months is up. She wants to make sure that all of the six months are together. I hope things work out for you and get a date soon. Let us know how it goes.

Okay had my "eval" today. Have to go back and do the MMPI test. The therapist seemed harmless and he was informative. So no worries. I feel confident that this will be okay. We did touch on a few things like how he has worked with my surgeon with the evals and that I have nothing to be concerned with. So my heart in the pit of my stomach returned to normal. As soon as I have my results I will let everyone know. (I was all uptight and worried for nothing) LOL. Everyone have a great weekend!

I'm getting nervous too. My psych evaluation is tomorrow to. 12/10. Not sure what to expect either. I did get a nice little questionaire in the mail from UHC to fill out and take to the evaluation. I just chuckled when I read some of the questions. But I will fill it out when I get there. Will let everyone know how it goes. I'm sure it will be fine.

The six months will go by pretty quickly. I will be entering month four on December 10th. Just make sure that there is plenty of documentation. Even if you need to add your own documentation. Every month I bring in everything to my primary appointment that I have done for the month to lose the weight. How many calories at each meal. How many minutes a day I exercise. So that there is no mistake that I'm doing my part. They are sticklers for documentation. The more the better. Keep in touch if you want to contact me just email me. Take care.

Welcome!!!! I haven't been sleeved as of yet. But my required tests are based on what my insurance required and surgeon. Six month diet and exercise documentation with primary. Nut eval. and have a BMI 40 or above with no co-morbities. Below 40 with at least two co-morbities (As each is different on the requirements ) The surgeon is requiring a gallbladder ultrasound, CBC, CMP, TSH, H. Pylori. Every surgeon is different on what they require. Again, welcome. Keep us updated..

Welcome! I'm currently three months into the process. I too have UHC. I have scheduled my nut appointment for December as well as my fourth month of supervised diet and weight control. ( Both on the same day ) It will be here before I know it. I'm hoping to have my sleeve late February or early March. ( fingers crosed ) I know from reading all of the posts here, there is a lot of information. And I read and read. Keep us posted.

Sorry to hear that. Did you speak with your case worker with UHC? I was told up front from my case worker what was required. Try that and call the psych doc office to see where the eval went. Sounds like the "right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing." Let us know how it goes.

Good luck fingers crossed for you. Let us know when you get your date. I too have UHC but mine isn't PPO it's the other *** Choice. I have to complete the hoop jumping. The six month supervised diet, pysch eval, and last are the labs. So I'm half way through it. No biggie. Hope to be sleeved early next year. Keep us posted. How exciting for you.

Thanks everyone. I will keep posting as the updates present themselves. I will be going to the head shrinker's office to have them get prior approval before I schedule an appointment this week. A BIG thank you to Tiff. The information was a tremendous help. I did wonder about what size bougie that is often used. Question to the surgeon I will be asking.

I'm hoping to have a late February or early March surgery date next year. Fingers crossed pending all paperwork is submitted in a timely manner. I wish I would've known my insurance covered the sleeve last year. But I didn't. Now I do. So, I'm on my way. So glad I found this forum so much information.