I got the results of my sleep study. Although my apnea has worsened (mild to moderate) with the increased weight, it's still not bad enough for a CPAP. I do/did snore mild to loudly. I had no periodic limb movements; so my restless leg medication is doing it's job. The report did make the specific recommendation that I lose weight; so that should help my case. I faxed the report to Dr. Kuwada's office on Thursday.

I spoke with Cathy Head, ANP last week, and she said they'd mail my information to the insurance once they received the results of the sleep study. So it should go out this week

Let the waiting begin....

You can have my two front teeth, all I want for Christmas is a surgery date

I bet you'll get it! It's good you don't have to use a machine. I haven't used mine for a while I need to get a new mask. It is a real drag.

Karen that is great....I have no idea how I missed this. Keep us posted!!! I am so excited for you.

I called on Tues. and Cathy said they hadn't received my psych eval yet, but said she would check into it. She called me back yesterday (Wed.), and said they had gotten my eval, but my blood work wasn't recent enough. I went today for blood work - a 2 hour wait at the hospital and 8 tubes of blood! Cathy did say the lab work ususally comes back next day. Maybe my paperwork will go to the insurance tomorrow?

We also talked about going ahead with my endoscopy. I have acid reflux; so surgery or not, there's a diagnosis to give to the insurance company.

I'm also encouraged by hearing of another UHC insured (thru the same employer) with BMI below 40 that got approved for WLS.

Karen thats great...you might just have a date scheduled by our next meeting!

Good luck!!

Melissa

My blood work came back OK, which isn't surprising to me. My bad cholesterol is a little high, but not extremely. As soon as Dr. Kuwada can get the letter dictated, it will go to the insurance. Unfortunately, his nurse practitioner didn't give any indication how long that might take.

Moving right along in the mean time, my endoscopy is scheduled for Tues., Dec. 6th, 6 a.m. at CMC.

congratulation for take your detition of have the surgery i had problem whit my blood pressure and now i fell better i wich you fell the same after your surgery my surgeron was dr huacuz in tijuana mx. www.huacuz.com

he did excellent job .

Let the waiting begin....

You can have my two front teeth, all I want for Christmas is a surgery date

I TOTALLY AGREE......my stuff was sent to the insurance company today and I am SO impatient to get a decision.

Hey Judith, even if I get a decision tomorrow, I may have to wait for a date. Dr. Kuwada more recently moved here from Chicago, and is in the process of being recertified by Inamed. He won't schedule me until he has enough surgeries for Inamed to come proxy his technique.

Karen -- Thankfully I don't have those issues at all. My doctor's surgery schedule is pretty open they tell me so if I get an insurance approval I will be able to schedule a surgery date fairly quickly. They do the WLS only on Tuesdays I'm told.

I got the name, phone# and reference# at my insurance company so I will be calling Sue tomorrow to check on it!

Judith

Did you have your approval yet judith? I'm just curious. What stage are you in.

I wanted to share a quick story my paper work was sent to UHC on a Thursday and I got my approval - verbally when i called them for my approval. So. If your with UHC it should be a breeze depending on how much documentation they needed. Good Luck

Karen - It's gonna happen, soon. I think you need to get some more recruits there so they can have enough patients to get this proxy done.

Jennifer, you know I was trying to recruit you, but didn't quite make it in time

No Karen, the dr's office didn't make it in time. I was all set to switch out and I didn't get a timely return call. I guess it's meant to be. There's thousands of people at work, we can find some so you get a date soon.

Have you called your insurance? I didn't receive any documentation yet, but the dr's office did.

I called my insurance; they have yet to receive my letter. I've left a voice message with my surgeon's office asking for an update. I don't mean to be impatient, but cannot wait to hear something!