I got the beautiful call today that I am approved for lap band surgery... now i just have to wait for them to call me and give me a pre-op screening date, and a surgery date. I am so impatient I WANT IT NOW

CONGRATS!!!!! What state are you in? That didn't take long at all!

i am in michigan....having lap band at ypsilanti bariatric center

You are so lucky, I am so happy for you!

Reading posts like this gives me encouragement to keep waiting and not get too sad about that process.

Congratulations!

I got a message yesterday that I was approved!!!!! I am so happy. I was scheduled today for May 12th. That seems a long way away but I know it will be here soon. If I could have I would have jumped on a gurney the day I went to the "Free Seminar"! Let us know when you get your date!:w00t:

Congratulations...I received my approval message today, too. What a great day, huh?:w00t:

I am trying to get approve but I don't understand what is considered five year obesity history. From a doctor or what???

All i had to give them was a list of the different things i have tried to lose weight both supervised and unsupervised and if i was seeing a dr..which one i was seeing...but every insurance company is different. I was fortune enough that i went through a bariatric center that is contracted with my insurance co. so the approval process was much easier.---IS ANYONE ELSE HAVING SURGERY IN YPSILANTI MICHIGAN??

Edited April 26, 200818 yr by new_jewel