Hello please anyone i am in need of advice my VA doctors refuse.to get me started on any weight loss pills or surgery. He only advised me to get on the MOVE program. Which is a weight loss classes that gives you information about food.

I recently turn 50 a week ago currently i am tipping the scales at 394lbs and I am 6'1. I want to have any type of biaratric surgery the Military or the VA will pay for. Please help in need of advise.

Hi! I recall a video I saw about a month ago online featuring a 65 year-old Vet who had bariatric surgery and was very successful at losing weight. I've been searching everywhere for it. Haven't located it yet, but did a Google search on "bariatric surgery veteran" and it pulled up U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on the topic of bariatric surgery. It lists out the requirements for qualifying for the surgery. I will keep trying to find the video of the gentleman who had bariatric surgery and did so well. Good luck!

I recommend going to a different doctor. I'm living on base now, they do it at the hospital on base, and my doctor only told me to try and lose weight and if iv couldn't she'd refer me to the surgeon. Anyway, I got my surgery date for the 29th of December. I think your doctor is just being difficult. TriCare covers it