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I think each surgeon and each patient is different. There is also what the hospital will approve and what insurance would approve. Those are not always the same. Good luck and I hope they approve you.

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Are you sure they look at your highest weight and not current? Do you know how I could verify that before I go weigh in this week?

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They look at your highest weight in the last year

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Hey bekah7482 I have my appointment with the surgeon tomorrow and im so scared to say something that will get me denied. Any suggestions based on your experience on how to make this go well?

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Dont be worried. With me he just looked at my health history, asked about what kind of exercising I do, why I want to have surgery and gave me the chance to ask questions.

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I guess I'm just scared that because my bmi is only 40.2 she will tell me I'm "too healthy" to have the surgery....

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Just be ready to state your case.

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Yeah I read the binder the bariatric center gave me yesterday and I know why I think i should have the surgery. I just get really high anxiety in cases like that and then it's hard to talk and breathe lol. Pray for me :)

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@lili94 @victoriak419 @bekah7482 My suggestion to you all is to get definite answers and requirements from your insurance first. I had UHC at the time of my surgery and I was required to have a 40BMI. This was because I had no Co Morbids. I was lucky as I had my mentor Paula that I worked with to guide me. When I first started thinking about the LB Surgery my BMI was just under 40. But because I know already that I didn't have any other issues that I would not qualify. So before I even went to the seminar i put on 10lbs to make sure I was at the 40BMI. I know your thinking... Wow you gained weight to get the LB....Yes I did and I would do it again and again if i had to. I gained 10 to lose 100.

I also used my GYN visits to show a progression in weight over the years, my history from Weight watchers.

After I knew I had the weight I needed I signed up for the seminar. They gave me the packet to fill out and all the question I needed to call and ask my insurance. (which I know because Paul had told me) But I did call anyway. Made my appointment with the DR, got in, filled out all of his stuff, weighted in.... 230lbs 40bmi right on the nose. They set up all of my other appointments.... NUT, Pchy, Heart, Swallow, sleep ap...etc. After all were done, they compiled all my results and sent with a surgery date to my insurance all in one packet. They said the reason they do this is so they can't say they didn't get something... it's all together. I got a call in one week.

I Started looking into everything in Aug. First apt in Sept and was banded Nov 9, 2009.

So my suggestion to you all.... if you have not been diffidently approved by your insurance, DON'T lose a lbs especially if you are on the cusp of the 40bmi with out co morbids. As soon as you do get the approval, then you can if you need too.

My advice to you all..... Hope it helps

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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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      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

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        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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