Finale Of Pre Lap Band Surgery Reqs + Results

[jayeedee 7]

Despite not having the sleep study completed and submitted to insurance, I was approved for lapband surgery. Go me.

The sleep study also said I have no sleep problems. So yay and boo for that. While it is nice knowing that I was right about being fine, and to have it confirmed by medical science, I am not looking forward to the portion of the study I will have to pay for out of pocket.

Now to get a surgery date, hopefully this month as I have time off! Good luck to everyone else.

Also, out of curiosity, how long was your wait between approval and surgery?

[horsegirl315 114]

My approval was submitted after my nutritionist appts (3) and my passing the psych test (guess I'm not crazy after all!) It took 32 days for my approval to come back from bcbs of RI. That's when the real "fun" began. Tests coming from every direction, sometimes two in one week. I failed my first sleep study, didn't sleep a wink, so off to sleep study number two tonight...rumor has it that if I do show apnea, I will be off to sleep study number THREE to do it with a cpap. I find the sleep study to me the least desireable of tests, but I want to have it all done by the time I meet with my surgeon on the 20th to talk about scheduling surgery.