Mzflaningam

First I want to start off with a little about me. At the age of 22 I am hppily married to a US Army soldier, stay at home mother of 3, and love to be out n about doing stuff and hanging with friends. I had to put education on hold till i find a reliable sitter but i am slowly working on my RN. My husband and I choose to stop having children so I am taking this time to work on myself. I start to look into the lap band because: !. I have fought with weight my whole life 2: i want to live a betterlife for my children and teach them to live to healthier life 3: with the last like 20 pounds i started to really noice the effects like getting out of breath quicker, knees hurting all the time, and clothes just not fitting at all 4 this is what broke the the "fat straw" i weigh more now than i ever did when i was pregnant. so March 6 2012 i went to my seminar, March 16th met with the NP and mental Health Eval, March 19th lab work and upper gi, April 5 nutrionist class/ first WLS support group April 13 surgery approval.... April 26th Stars pre op diet. and May 10th Surgery Now I have heard some awful stories about gettin approved for WlS through tricare (tricare south prime!)... i am guessing it as farely easy for me because i had already been working with my PCM for sometime and i met the more that 100 pounds over wieght. I mean it took them less than 24 hours to approve the request.the only co morbidity i have is bad knees and if i dont change i am on my way to diabetes. The biggest question I have "Are you scared?" no i am not scared to be changeing my life. i am excited. i am scared about the mood swings i will have with on the pre op diet but thats about it,\

Yea I can have 34 protein shakes a day( they gave me ok brands and recipes I can use) and can veggies including salads I can cook the veggies in things like broth n can have low fat or non fat dressing for 13 days and the day before surgery all liquids

Congrats I am getting banded may 10th not to far from each other

My surgery is may 10 n I start my pre op diet April 26th I am no looking forward to it

I GOT THE CALL May 10th I will be banded eeek start my pre op diet apr 26

You guys think I should call them it's been like four days? If not how long should I wait? I am just afraid cause I got a new number n I left it with the patient advocate but that's not the same person who schedules the surgery

Sadly I didn't get the call however there is tomorrow lol i am just impatient I think I don't hear from them by Friday I will call find out what's going on... How long you think I should wait?

What the difference between the 2? I believe it's the lap band system though

Where can you go to see approval on tricare specifically tricare south... N Congrats on your approval !!!

I feel your excitement I found out yesterday that I was approved .... Now I am anxiously waiting the dr office to call me ro schedule surgery .. Eek however not looking forward to the pre op diet but I know that will be my first battle

Voted for you ..... Good luck

I really love Zumba too ... Even after I knew I liked it I have walked out of classes cause I just didn't like the instructor .. Its just about finding the one for u

Did you get free samples? if so how?