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Oh my goodness! Yesterday, my August 24th surgery is now set in stone! I'm so excited!

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Oh my goodness! Yesterday, my August 24th surgery is now set in stone! I'm so excited!

Lucky you!! Congrats! I haven't gotten a surgery date as of yet, but I'm hoping for the end of August/beginning of September. I still have like 3 more visits with my doctors office. I am hoping that I can get a date by the end of this month or sometime in July as I have completed all the requirements for surgery except the 6 months of visits and a chest xray and ekg ( I'd have to wait until close to surgery to get those last two).

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August 1st over here! So excited and ready! Been working on getting surgery going since November of 2015, so 9 months start-to-finish process for moi.

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My liquid diet starts 7/17 with a big colon cleanse 7/31 before 8/1 surgery. Am I nuts that I'm excited for this because that means surgery is imminent? LOL. I'm so ready to do this!

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United Health Care. They approved me right away! So far so good! :)

What insurance do you guys have and how long does it take to get approved?


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Just scheduled mine for August 15th. Really anxious, but I know it's the best decision for me. I'm glad I have the opportunity to do this and my insurance is covering it.

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Hi all. I think I will be on the schedule in August. Yesterday I met with the dietician (for 5th time) and psych (for 2nd time) and they said they were going to review my case and try to submit to insurance. Today I received a copy of the letter they sent to the insurance. Now I'll be holding my breath for approval! I think I could probably schedule in July if they approve right off, but its such a busy month, I think it would be better to wait to the beginning of August. Heck, I made first contact with the surgeon's office in November, what's waiting a few more weeks?

It is all feeling very real now though and I'm getting quite excited!

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My last appt is July 12. I'm really hoping for an early August sleeve date!

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I had an appointment with my surgeon today and they are submitting to my insurance for an early August surgery date (TBD), I'm hoping for a quick approval but the surgeon thinks they might try to fight it because my BMI is a 39, but because I'm a band to sleeve revision (after a slip and band failure) he's confident it will be approved! Now the waiting game begins!

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