Destiny

Well, my fiance is on a work policy on United Health Care but his particular policy does not cover the surgery. He had his work's insurance agent try to fight with UHC and she called back yesterday saying that they told her that they do not cover the surgery AT ALL. I know this can't be true because I've heard of many people being covered through UHC. Since he already has sleep apnea and is obese, he can't get approved with a new insurance company and we tried for a loan but only got approved for $6,600. Our local bariatric office has an insurance coordinator that we're going to get in contact with next week..hopefully they can help us out but if not, what other options are there or what have you done? We do not wan't to give up on this!

Well, the surgery is not for me..it's for my fiance. He's 28, 5'10 and about 375 lbs. I've been researching this for a while now and we finally went to an info session at the hospital tonight. We're interested in the lap band because it seems a lot safer but after researching and seeing some posts on here...I'm kind of discouraged. I've seen a lot of people say they've only lost like 40 lbs in a year. I've learned that it's an extremely slow process and for some people it doesn't even work. At this point, I'm still going to encourage him to get it done because it's better than nothing! I was just thinking that there would definately be good results but now I'm finding that that's not always the case. I would just hate for him to go through all this and end up not getting good results or any results at all...or having complications and having to remove the band. I know that (with my help), he will follow all the diet/excercise rules though. I know I'm jumping to conclusions before we've even started anything but I just got really discouraged after lurking around here.. :phanvan Well..he's got like a 30 page booklet to fill out and return to the dr before anything gets started so we'll see what happens I guess. I will try to be a little more optimistic about it. As our journey begins, I'm sure I'll come around here often to chat and get advice..it seems like a really informative place. Destiny

Thank you all so much for your replies. I really appreciate it! I'm feeling a lot better about all this after reading your replies and checking out the "before & after" picture thread. I'm still kind of worried about the long term results because of all the reports of problems with the band..Plus it's still fairly new in the US. I'm just afraid that it doesn't last long. Has anyone ever really had the band for several years (15+)? I know I just need to take it one day at a time but it's hard not to think about these things. Anyways..thanks again to you all for your encouragment. I'll keep you posted.