Ready4aNewLife

PLease tell me if you went to Sparrow HOspital in East Lansing MI. If so who was your doctor? How did your surgery go? Any complications?

I have read a lot of information on the internet that says after you get the sleeve, the hunger hormone is officially gone, is that true?

What insurance do u have ?

When did your pain go away and how bad was your pain?

How long ago did you have your surgery? How much weight have you lost? What has changed in your life since surgerY? Positive things or Negatives things please. I am going to be sleeved next month and just curious =)

I read all of you talking about a honeymoon period after surgery. What is that referring to?

Just curious on how long of a diet you had to do for your insurance to approve you?

Im having WLS next month and I was curious, after you lost weight, how much loose skin did you have? Did your skin ever stretch back at all and get firm again? I just turned 20 years old...but I have been overweight literally my whole life...haven't been 150 lbs since like probably 5th grade...since I am younger do you think my skin will stretch back or no?

I am just wondering how much weight you lost at 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and a year?

I am just wondering how much weight you lost at 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and a year?

So I was just bumming because I called my insurance company for the 100th time and Medicaid told me something different...that I had to have a one year medically supervised diet to be able to approve my surgery. But apparently they didnt know that medicaid is my secondary insurance and Blue Cross Blue Shield is my primary insurance! So my BCBS approved me without a supervised diet and since they are my primary, my Medicaid is going to pay the rest! Since I am under 21 years old Medicaid is going to pay all of my deductibles and copays also! All I have to pay for is my pre op diet, so my total bill for my surgery will be $915!!!! Thank god something is going right in my life for once!!!

I am 20 years old and I live in Michigan. I have Mclaren Medicaid Health Plan

So I have got all my pre op appointments done down to the last dietician followup and I just found out that my Medicaid requires a 1 year medically supervised diet! How horrible is thatttt!! My BCBS doesn't require a diet at all but if I want medicaid to cover what BCBS doesn't then I have to complete the 1 year diet. I was so excited to get my surgery done in the summer and start a new life too =(

I am a 19 year old female, 5'4 and 293 lbs. My BMI is 50 exactly. I was diagnosed with moderate sleep apnea yesterday. I have called both of my insurance companies, BCBS and Medicaid, and they both cover VSG. I was wondering how likely am I to be approved for VSG by them?

Hello everyone. I am in the process of getting my bariatric appointments done at the moment. I only have a couple more appointments til I get my surgery date, but first I have to choose what WLS I would like to have done. The lapband is completely out for me because I dont want anything foreign in my body for the rest of my life. So my choices are left between the sleeve and the gastric bypass. I am more leaning towards the sleeve but my doctors are saying that the gastric bypass is much more popular and told me to think through it again. Why did you choose to get the sleeve over the bypass? Or vice versus?

I only have 2 appointments left before I get my surgery date and my doctor or surgeon hasnt said anything about a supervised diet..is that something I might not have to do for my insurance to cover it since I have Sleep Apnea, Urine Incontinuance and Polysistic Ovarian Disease?

If so how did your surgery go with them and who did you have?

I was just curious on how long it took all of you to get approved? Did you get approved the first time, second, third? Am I gonna be waiting miserably for a week, 2 weeks, or longer to find out if I have been approved?

I am wondering if any insurances cover the pre-op diet cost? Also how much did your pre-op diet cost you out of pocket?

I have had my heart set on getting the vertical sleeve for sometime now. Now that I am actually in the process of making my dream happen, my doctor is trying to convince me to think about getting gastric bypass instead. Can all of you tell me why you chose the surgery you did? I also want to know all of the differences between them that I might not be able to find on the internet!

Im sooooo upset right now. I told my boyfriend how I signed up for this website and he saw I added a picture to it and he thinks that I'm using this website to look for guys. Are you kidding me??? It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!!!!!! I have no intentions on that! I have one and one intention only to be on these forums and it's because I have all these questions and all of you have great answers! He says "Why cant you be like a normal person and just search it on google?" He doesn't understand that stuff found on google is just general information and the people on here can answer so many things that google cant!!! Most of you have experienced VSG and that's who I need answers from, not some stupid search engine.. Sorry...I'm just so upset about this...just ranting!!

How long did it take for you to get approved?

Hello everyone! I have recently come to the conclusion that I want to have the vertical sleeve done. I was curious how you felt the first two weeks after surgery?

I am prepping for it. I have my orientation for VSG on May 16th! In 3 days =]]

Did you have any comorbidities?