I am looking for a support person that lives in Newport News. I am going for my first consult today with my family Dr. to see what he think about me having Lapband done. I have a 43 in the BMI, I am on 35 yrs old. I have two children that I would like to see grown up and have children themselves. I am hoping my Dr. can help me with all my questions and with the insurance company.

I would like to thank all of you that have put your experiences out here, this has helped me alot and I will continue coming out here to read more.

Wish me luck this is the beginning of my new journey "I hope".

Hi Welcome.

I am just in the waiting stage of my process for the insurance and whether I have overturned my denial. I wish you all the best in your journey.

I too am new to this site. I stumbled acrossed when I was google TriCare Prime for the LapBand Surgery. So I decided to join and see if anyone has had any luck with approval through TriCare for the LapBand. I started to look into this a year ago and was told TriCare wouldn't approve the LapBand only full gastrice by-pass so I just gave up. Well I thought this is a new year and just maybe TriCare has come around to a new way of thinking about this surgery. So thought I would look around here and see if there was any luck to be found. So I see your thread was from last year any luck so far/