Hey All!! Well I finally reached the insurance authorization ! After doing the endoscopy, psych eval, dietitian, consult with surgeon and lab work! The only thing that kind concerned me is that no one told me my file was sent to insurance verification or that it passed the board of review there at the hospital.. I called today just to check the status of my file of if I needed to do anything else and than that's when I was notified that it's already sent to insurance.. She did mention that it can take 10 to 14 days so I am trying not to keep thinking about it ! Anyone else have Anthem Blue Cross HMO in California ?? If so I would love to hear any feedback! Or just feedback in general!!

YES! You go before me so you can walk me through it, lol! Do you have to do a diet???

Oh I definitely will walk you through it Yes two weeks before I have to do a liquid diet ! I am a little nervous snout my caffeine but it's all worth it !!! Even if I am a zombie for the first week ! What about you?

Yep! I have to do 3wk diet! :-P It starts on Feb 4 so we will be dieting together!

Aww three weeks?!!! We need to be each other's support! It's gonna be tough but so worth it!!!!

I know! Please add me if you are on instagram I have a second account just for fellow weightloss surgery friends! It helps to be able to see what everyone else is eating/doing and its some pretty awesome before/after progress pic's there. :-)

mycupofjojo is my username.

HINT!!!

Start to taper your caffine NOW... I was able to get through the process with NO caffine withdrawal side effects, and they CAN be nasty!!!.

Hello everyone I'm new here, today is my sleep study I have finished all the requirements for surgery, the last thing is to submit my papers to the insurance company, my very first weigh in my BMI was 39.98 but a week later and every appointment after I have been at 40 so I'm really nervous in getting approved, but would the doctors have me go through the whole process if they thought I would be denied

Hi Vonvon. Personally, I don't know much about the BMI qualifications but I'm sure there are plenty of people on this site that do! I hope you find more on this topic.

Cupofjojo- such a good idea of creating a separate Instagram account! I have kinda looked around with different hashtags relating to the surgery to kind of see different things! I will create one today and add you

Arts- I definitely need to start winging my self off of the caffeine like yesterday!!! Lol that is def my goal for this week... As I am drinking my coffee!!! Lol gosh it's gonna be tough but sooo worth it