I'm am a 20 year old girl. I have been waiting to get this surgery for about a year now. I planed on having it in December or January while I was on school break but my insurance denied it. My surgeon put together a appeal for me, I have a lot of things wrong with me that would go away of I lost weight. I've been trying for years but I just can't lose it. So we put in the appeal right away and they are still deliberating. It has been so long and I feel like this is my only hope. I don't know what to do. Do you think they will approve it? My surgeon said she has never lost and appeal.

I self paid, so I can't say in my own experience, because my insurance excluded the sleeve. (They would have given me the band, but who wants the band?) My friend was denied by BCBS once, but they approved it after she appealed.