Good evening,

My name is Ashley and I'm newbie here. I never thought about joining a bariatric support group. But I do believe this will help me considering how frustrating my journey has been up until now periods I started my journey August of 2015 and I'm going to be using dr. Kim in Texas. I came into this knowing that my insurance which happens to be Cigna is very strict. I have a 53 BMI , obstructive sleep apnea, PCOS, and chronic back pain. I found the support group while I was maniacally searching 4 people experiencing the same things that I am experiencing. My insurance required three months of nutritionist verified diet psychological evaluation cardiac clearance as well as cardiac sonogram. I got all that done and submitted all my stuff to Insurance on January 14th of 2016. Cigna denied me on the 25th of January 2016 because they said I needed pulmonary clearance as well as blood work and they said they did not receive my cardiac testing clearance. Now I've gotten all that done and I just resubmitted March 1st of 2016 and now its March 11th of 2016 and I still have not heard anything. So I started searching for people who have been in the same boat as me and I found this wonderful support group and I've been reading a lot of your stories and experiences and I know by being in this group it would give me some comfort I wish I had found this when I first started. My starting BMI is 53 my starting weight is 320 and I'm so hopeful about my future. I have had a failed lap band which I got banded it in 2008 and then band removal in 2011. Gastric sleeve is a dream come true if I can ever get the approval. I know this has been long but I really wanted to introduce myself so that if anyone has a story like mine they can share with me so that I know I'm not alone.

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@@Ashoryb I hope you hear soon! You are really dedicated to your health and this process so even if they give you more hoops to jump through it will suck but you will make it and reach your goals I have no doubt!

Your hope about your future and willingness to reach out will fuel your success. Best of luck to you.

@@Ashoryb I hope you hear soon! You are really dedicated to your health and this process so even if they give you more hoops to jump through it will suck but you will make it and reach your goals I have no doubt!

Your hope about your future and willingness to reach out will fuel your success. Best of luck to you.

Butterfly 23 Thank you so much for your reply. I appriciate your kind words. I'm very dedicated to this process because I have a beautiful 3 year old daughter who needs a mom thay can play with her. All I can do is sit and watch. My insurance is cigna but goes through a third party call group administrators and they are ruthless. But I can be pretty ruthless myself

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