Congrats to all of you who have made such a life changing decision and to those who have already had their surgery!!

In reading thru everyone's threads I have seen a lot of stories with people who had BMI around 40... My current BMI is at 72 and I'm a little more heavy then most I've read so I was wondering if anyone could share their experience with getting approved with insurance, or their experience with surgery and recovery that had a higher BMI? Any advise or info would be greatly appreciated...

i dont have the bypass...but started with a BMI of 62...i was as wide as i am tall

so do not lose hope because of the weight you are starting at ....YOU can do it, i promise.

Congrats to all of you who have made such a life changing decision and to those who have already had their surgery!!

In reading thru everyone's threads I have seen a lot of stories with people who had BMI around 40... My current BMI is at 72 and I'm a little more heavy then most I've read so I was wondering if anyone could share their experience with getting approved with insurance, or their experience with surgery and recovery that had a higher BMI? Any advise or info would be greatly appreciated...

My bmi was 71. I was sleeved Sept 27, 2013. I was self pay in Mexico. My insurance does not cover wls surgery. My recovery was very easy. Maybe I got lucky. I had no gas pain. The only pain I had was it felt like I had done 1000 sit ups in my left side. I was back to work in a week. I do have a desk job. I was never tired. I think that is because I did my pre op diet for 4 weeks. I think this made my recovery easier. I'm down 94 since surgery. I don't feel like I'm in a diet. My starting weight was 410 my current weight is 316. Sometime I still can't believe the surgery works after trying so many diets. But it does! Good luck.

Thank you ladies so much! I am in my 2nd month of my 3 month nutritional requirement and my psych eval is next week. And hopefully will be scheduled for surgery end of March or early April with the gastric bypass

Best of luck to you Holly!

Thank you!

Good luck!!

Thank you so much!