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eyezchu22    6

eyezchu22
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I was just wandering if people with a high bmi and no co morbidities had a hard time getting approved for surgery? I really dont have any...but I am borderlin with some. My bmi is 44.1

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Boss Lady    0

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My BMI is 40.8. I do not have any co-morbidities, but was able to obtain insurance approval after submitting a 5 year diet history (tried and failed) and submitting to a psychological exam.

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Sarah.R    2

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Mine was 45.5, one of the highest I've seen on here but a woman did tell me hers was 47. I do have co-morbidities but I also didn't go thru an insurance company so even if I didn't have them I would have had surgery. Good luck =)

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RestlessMonkey    7

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High starting BMI , older, no comorbs (really!) and got approved in under 48 hours.

In case you don't find it on my ticker, my starting BMI was 67.4. And no, my surgeon never once tried to push me

to get bypass.

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AlaskaGirl77    0

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My starting BMI was 60 and I had zero cormorbidities. My surgeon let me know that i would have faster results with the GB,but supported me in what I wanted. I don't want fast...i just want it gone! lol

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Who'sThere    331

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My BMI is 50, and I have no co-morbids. I still don't have an approval yet (will be sent off early this week), but I will be shouting it from the rooftops when I do. The scheduler at my surgeon's office said my ins. co. usually gets them in quickly.

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steveden    0

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My BMI is 44 and I am borderline on comorbidities too. But insurance ok'd it. They didn't require ithis, but I did have documentation of trying to lose weight - weight watchers, hypnosis, my local hospital's eating disorder program. Maybe that helped, I'm not sure, but the hospital called me on Weds. to tell me I was approved!

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eyezchu22    6

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Thanks for all of your input I feel reasured that my insurance will hopefully approve me without necessarily having any co morbidities :thumbup: Will keep my fingers crossed when all the paperwork is finally submitted.

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chu    0

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my insurance rep said that a bmi of 40 qualifies. If you ar3 35 - 40 you need a co morbidiity.

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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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      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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