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I am just a mess- and the insurance company makes me feel like a nobody



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My case got submitted to insurance late due to the doctor's office dropping the ball. Anyhow it was submitted on Thursday so I called and check on it on Friday. I was told by my case manager nurse that there are a lot more important cases and urgent cases them mine and I am just going to have to wait - BCBS Empire in Florida. I tried to tell them that my surgery is penciled in for Dec 16th but I need my surgery approval number to schedule my last two appts with surgery nurses and to sign my final papers. :( My nurse says she can't schedule them without that approval. Just in case they had me start the clear liquid diet last Monday but I have hit a standstill in losing weight with it. I have been walking 5 miles a day everyday. I completed the 6 months nutrition classes and all the appts necessary. I am just bummed and a nervous wreck, I don't know what to do anymore.

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Insurance companies dont really care. They need to realize this is a important surgery too your life. I am waiting too sent mine on the 1st then had to resend on the 3rd not heard anything yet. Goodluck!!!

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Tesa36 good luck to you too! Do you have a planned surgery date? I will send prayers your way.

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It is easy and absolutely understandable that you are frustrated. I would be a reck myself but when I am in a situation like that, I try to remind myself that my goal is above all the fallout and the details. I stick to the plan and keep going. If it doesn't happen today, I work on the next day and so forth. This will happen and that's all that matters.

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I understand how you feel. My insurance company denied the first time. Then they wouldn't approve the gastric sleeve. Finally I was approved, but only for the bypass. They don't care how long you wait. Or what your doctors reccomend. But it will finally happen and you will feel so much better. So hang in there. Call them 5 times a day if you have to.

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I too had problems with my insurance company. I put blinders on and just forged ahead. I am now 19 months post-op.

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I too had problems with my insurance company. I put blinders on and just forged ahead. I am now 19 months post-op.

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No i think they gave some kind of date when they submitted it to insurance but they did not tell me. I know they said i had to have approval back before the 18th or i could not have it this year.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. LeighaTR

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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