This soft food diet is killin me lol I'm still hungry !!! Any good suggestions on some soft food that is actually filling ?!?!?

Hi,

I tried everything I could to get them to waive it-- I wrote a letter to Aetna (I also have Federal Blue Cross which is secondary).

My surgeon's billing manager told me they had only been successful in getting one patient's pre-op program waived (and it's a large practice --8 surgeons) and that was only because he was in a life threatening medical crisis.

They also explained to me that if they officially try to submit it before the 3 months there is a 99% chance that they will deny it and then to resubmit it would actually have to be submitted as an appeal to the first denial. Which of course would take months to go through the process. I decided I did not want to risk pushing it back further by submitting early. I finally resigned myself that I just had to wait. It did go by quick though....

I assume you are pre op , try drinking lots of soup , eat refried beans , and lite cheese sticks..... and water ... after surgery you will no longer be hungry !!! the pre op diet is the worst of it and directly after surgery when you get sick of liquids for so many weeks ... lol hang in there its all worth it in the long run