I go for my doctor consult on the 23rd. I am 5'8" and 236 lbs, and have a bmi of 35.9. I am wondering if they are going to let me get the lap band. I am going thru self pay because I dont want to wait for insurance and they might not cover it anyway. The only things that I have wrong is back pain and bad pain in my joints in knees and ankles. I am wondering if I need to have some other medical problem if I am not over 40 bmi. ??

Has anyone else been kind of in my shoes as far as lower bmi and no co-morb stuff going on?

Thanks for all the advise. I cant wait, its 10 days now. I scheduled my phych eval and i am going to try to schedule my blood work also before I go in and that way he knows how serious I am. The waiting stinks. But I know this is the only the first step of the wait. Has anyone got a surgery date at the first visit before? That would be great!!!

Met with the Doctor yesterday and he gave me my surgery date. Which will be April 14th. I cant wait. It is going very fast now. Went for my pre-op class last night and need to schedule my nutrition class and some other thing before the 14th. Crazy...

Hopetolose My insurance did approve me! I'm on the preop program! How are you doing?

Kimberly, I am so excited for you. Do you have a date yet? I am doing good. My date is 4/14. I started a pre-op diet and have lost 4 lbs so far since saturday. Just kinda doing a low-carb and shake mixure type thing just to get used to eating less. Have the timer on my phone set so that I eat every 3 hours or so. That seems to be helping alot. Please let know all the details of your surgery. Yaaayyy Us....