Hello Everyone,

In 2009 I underwent Lap Band surgery with a starting weight of 252lbs. I slowly lost over the course of 3 years weighing in at 149lbs (103lbs lost). I literally had never felt so good in my entire life! Around this time I started noticing that some things felt “off” with my band. However, my focus was then on my struggle with infertility so the band was put on the back burner. Fast forward 4 years later and 2 rounds of IVF I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy!

Now that my son is a year old I’ve been focusing on my health a bit more. During my struggle with infertility I gained around 50lbs back and am pretty upset about it! I actually just got a letter from my hospital about revision from the band to the sleeve. The letter stated that greater than 50% of their lap band patients were having complications and undergoing revision surgery.

My consultation is this Friday 9/15/17! I’ll be back to update you on how it goes!

Edited September 12, 20178 yr by breprih

Still impatiently wait for the results of my sleep study over here. I have my "class" next Tuesday and I need to know the results before then. I plan to call Friday as that will be 2 weeks since I took the test. They told me 2 weeks is how long it takes. Patience is a virtue, right?!

On 10/25/2017 at 8:28 AM, breprih said:

Still impatiently wait for the results of my sleep study over here. I have my "class" next Tuesday and I need to know the results before then. I plan to call Friday as that will be 2 weeks since I took the test. They told me 2 weeks is how long it takes. Patience is a virtue, right?!

I'm on day 9 after at home sleep study......patience is a virtue!! I'm DYING for a good night's sleep!!!!

1 minute ago, Klynngetsfit said:

I'm on day 9 after at home sleep study......patience is a virtue!! I'm DYING for a good night's sleep!!!!

Do you have any clue why it takes so long? I see you are in Mass as well. Lahey?

1 hour ago, breprih said:

Do you have any clue why it takes so long? I see you are in Mass as well. Lahey?

I have no idea....initially they told me a week......so after a week I called and they said they only have one person transcribing the results so it should be more like 2 weeks.

Also I'm in the Springfield area! Baystate for sleep and I'm thinking about Mercy for surgery

Just now, Klynngetsfit said:

I have no idea....initially they told me a week......so after a week I called and they said they only have one person transcribing the results so it should be more like 2 weeks.

Also I'm in the Springfield area! Baystate for sleep and I'm thinking about Mercy for surgery

That must be why at Lahey Clinic then. =(

I just called and the sleep test results are in! I just have to wait for the nurse practitioner to call me with the results! I'm so nervous please say a prayer!

4 minutes ago, breprih said:

I just called and the sleep test results are in! I just have to wait for the nurse practitioner to call me with the results! I'm so nervous please say a prayer!

YAY!!!! for results....BOO for having to wait longer!!!!! I am now anxiously awaiting your results LOL GOOD LUCK <3

Well, it's official! I have mild sleep apnea! It still feels really odd to be happy about that. The nurse practitioner thinks I'll have a good case for approval now. So Tuesday I found out that I meet with the nurse practitioner, the psychologist, and the dietitian. All three of them have to fill out paperwork that will then be submitted to insurance. So, I'm glad I have the sleep apnea result before I go to that! She wants me to see pulmonary as well. She doesn't really think that I'll actually need a CPAP. She thinks I may need clearance from them for insurance though. I'm going to try and find more out about that on Tuesday.

1 hour ago, breprih said:

Well, it's official! I have mild sleep apnea! It still feels really odd to be happy about that.

LOL, so true!! I was happy when I was dxd with such a strong co-mordidity, too -- we are ridiculous :-)

I moved my work and babysitting schedule around this week for my nurse practitioner, psychologist, and dietitian appointment today but I received a call yesterday that the psychologist won't be in today. I'm pretty annoyed since I had to reschedule everything. Oh well, things happen! They squeezed me in tomorrow but I have to move things around again which isn't easy.

Happy Halloween! I'm staying away from the candy!

On 10/27/2017 at 3:40 PM, breprih said:

Well, it's official! I have mild sleep apnea! It still feels really odd to be happy about that. The nurse practitioner thinks I'll have a good case for approval now. So Tuesday I found out that I meet with the nurse practitioner, the psychologist, and the dietitian. All three of them have to fill out paperwork that will then be submitted to insurance. So, I'm glad I have the sleep apnea result before I go to that! She wants me to see pulmonary as well. She doesn't really think that I'll actually need a CPAP. She thinks I may need clearance from them for insurance though. I'm going to try and find more out about that on Tuesday.

Do I say CONGRATS!!!! lol .... I'm still waiting for my results :-( tomorrow will be 2 weeks since the test.

Keep us updated!!!!

5 minutes ago, Klynngetsfit said:

Do I say CONGRATS!!!! lol .... I'm still waiting for my results :-( tomorrow will be 2 weeks since the test.

Keep us updated!!!!

hahaha I guess you do! Thanks! They called me with the results two weeks exactly.

The other nurse practitioner called me this morning. She's the one that I've known since I had my lap band in 2009. She said I do not need to see pulmonary and that they are going to tell insurance they will treat my sleep apnea with weight loss. She said that my insurance is going to have the 90-day waiting period. So, since my initial consult was the end of September as long as scheduling works I should be able to have the surgery end of December. She said a lot of the surgeons take time off at the end of December so that may make it challenging but hopefully we can get it done!

2 minutes ago, breprih said:

The other nurse practitioner called me this morning. She's the one that I've known since I had my lap band in 2009. She said I do not need to see pulmonary and that they are going to tell insurance they will treat my sleep apnea with weight loss. She said that my insurance is going to have the 90-day waiting period. So, since my initial consult was the end of September as long as scheduling works I should be able to have the surgery end of December. She said a lot of the surgeons take time off at the end of December so that may make it challenging but hopefully we can get it done!

That would be wonderful!!!! I'm still waiting to have my first consult. I am checking two different surgeon groups one in November and one in December. I'd love to have it done early next year...if I don't have it by March I will have to wait until June. I have a trip to the Dominican for my cousins wedding and I DO NOT want to be healing down there LOL

Good Morning!

I wanted to give you an update on my appointments yesterday. I first met with the nurse practitioner, the one I’ve known for about 10 years now. She said with the mild sleep apnea and BMI of 35 I have a very strong case for approval now, yay! She said what they do is pick an arbitrary surgery date and send it to insurance for approval. They know insurance will say “no you need to do x-y-z first before we approve”. She said it’s their way of having insurance lay out 100% what is needed before approval. So, we fully expect them to come back and say I have a 90 day waiting period and that I need to see my PCP for the “OK” for surgery. I started this whole process Sept. 15^th so my 90 day waiting period expires mid-December. That all means I could have the surgery this year but she said that most of the doctors take the end of year off so I’m not hopeful. I think I’m looking at early January instead which is fine since it’s such a small difference. The only benefit to having the surgery in 2017 is I’ve already hit my deductible for the year.

Then I went to meet with the dietitian; that was stressful. I’ve barely eaten “food” the last couple of years. Like I’ve said previously I had 4 years of infertility that consumed me and that is also around the time my major food intolerance showed up. I basically drank my calories and consumed slider foods to gain all this weight back. So right now she wants me to focus on eating 3 meals a day and finding sometime in my day, even if its 15 minutes to work out. I’m pretty sure I can make it work but it’s going to be hard with my little one. He’s both a terror and a delight LOL! I can’t just put him in the pack and play and walk on the treadmill; he’d scream the whole time. The child needs his freedom haha. He does go to bed by 6PM though so instead of sitting on the couch I am going to hop on the treadmill. I use to walk 3 miles a day 6 days a week but that was pre baby and I think it’ll be years before I can do that again. Baby steps. I go back to see the dietitian on 11/27 and I’m going to try my best to make big changes between now and then.

I see the psychologist today and I’ll come and update you after the appointment!

Oh and confession………….I’m up to 215lbs, ugh. I hate that I had to GAIN weight to get my BMI to 35 to qualify! Good news is the nurse practitioner said I can lose all the weight I want and it will not affect my approval!

Edited November 1, 20178 yr by breprih
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