35-36 BMI- HIP PRIME

August 4, 201411 yr

In the past 7 years..

I have done the dukan diet, atkins, HCG diet, Optifast, medifast, nutrisystem and other misc diets. I have been losing and regaining the same 50 lbs, they just seem to creep up since I have never been able to sustain it.

I am debating between financing and going self pay in Mexico (Dr. Ortiz) or going through the insurance process, which I fear will deny me, for my bmi i would need to have at least one co-morbidity of the following:

Daily functional interference to the extent that performance is extensively curtailed.4

b. Documented circulatory insufficiency.

c. Documented physical trauma secondary to obesity complications, which causes the

member to be incapacitated.

d. Documented respiratory insufficiency.

e. Documented primary disease complication, as applicable:

i. Coronary heart disease and other atherosclerotic diseases.

ii. Medically refractory hypertension.

iii. Osteoarthritis.

iv. Moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea.

v. Type 2 diabetes.

I don't think I meet it, and I am even more frustrated because I have zero support from my family who believe that I am not trying hard enough, which really hurts, they won't even hear me out or discuss the surgery with me.

Has anybody been approved with similar bmi and no comorbidities? or did you decide to go the self pay route?

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