Hello!

I stumbled across the site while looking for other's experiences with insurance. What a great community!

I am attending my 6th and final "6 month supervised diet" visit tomorrow morning, and my surgeon's insurance coordinator will be turning in the paperwork to my insurance company (CIGNA) as soon as she gets the 6 month diet notes from the doctor that did that part.

I have done my psych eval, dietician meeting, attended a seminar, and have gotten a 3 year weight history from my PCP. The coordinator says that I have more than enough info, and my PCP had very detailed notes for each year where they spoke with me about weight, losing weight, etc. She said everything looks very good and I should call Cigna in 2 weeks, and that it could take 30-60 days for the approval but since everything looks good for me it may not even take that long...

I am having a hard time accepting that! I am terrified that I have gotten my hopes up for this life-changing experience and I will be denied.

So that's me and where I am right now. :confused:

I look forward to reading and posting here, and hope to post some good updates as I move forward on this journey!

Amy

Hi,

I am a new lap band patient. I had my lap band surgery Monday, March 9, 2009 and I'm a little scared. I have questions about a few things and thought I would look up support groups online.

I find this site and I hope to meet other people who have had some of the same fears I have. I'm new to this and I'm not even sure if I'm posting right to this site.

I am finding it hard to drink all the fluids that I am suppose to drink during the day but I'm doing my best to stick to the schedule. Also, I'm having gas alot which I ask the doctor while I was in the hospital if that was normal and he told me it was.

I am going to quit for now and see how my posting did. I look forward to new friends and chatting with other lap band patients.

Lori