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I'm meeting up with my primary dr Tuesday to talk this whole thing over with her. I saw her in March specifically about my weight. I'm hoping that at least that visit will qualify towards my six month pre-op qualifications for insurance.

I've been struggling with my weight since age 10-12 and dieting and exercising off and on since then.

Then Friday is my new patient appointment with the surgeon.

Wish me luck.

Age 28

HW 350.3

CW 338

Hbp

High cholesterol

sleep apnea with cpap

Depression and anxiety

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Good luck. I wish I had done this when I was your age. But heck, I'm glad I did it.

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welcome! I'm 24, has surgery last August. My surgery weight was 387. If I can ever help at all, feel free to friend/message me. :)

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Best of luck to you! I can only tell you that the whole process is absolutely worth it!

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Good news! My primary dr was super supportive! I went in for my visit this morning as ready as I could to have to battle it out and sell her on my perspective and she was like, "yeah!" I've seen quite a few patients have this and be successful. So she filled out my referral paperwork and she went through our past visits and found the ones coded with EPT codes showing obesity etc so now I only have 3 more months to wait instead of 6!!!

Looks like I should hopefully be able to get surgery around October if all goes through with insurance?

My new patient appointment with the surgeon is Friday. I'm really excited.

Also I've lost 9 pounds eating low carb, starting to slowly get back into the workout thing.

HW 350.2

CW 332.2

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Just met with the surgeon. He was super kind. Loved him.

Thankfully being fat has helped me out for once!

My Bmi has shortened the insurance time frame from6 months to 3 months. My dr wrote down those three visits so hoping that should take care of it! If nothing else I saw her July, will see dietician in August and September and that'll take care of it!

Best case scenario.. It seems like I could be having this done in the next couple weeks! I got my checklist of things to do from the dr so I'm setting up all the dietitian appointments and will be doing the upper gi and psych eval, meeting with their bariatric support group and going to their fitness class... As long as I can get it all done.. I'm good!!

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