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Yay!!!!!

Glad to know you made it through surgery okay. You are officially no longer a bandster! THAT has to feel awesome. Keep walking. Hopefully the gas pains will subside soon.

Glad they finally have your info. Mine was submitted on a Thursday, and I was approved either Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully you will have your approval just as quickly. Good luck!

Don't feel like a fool. I felt/feel the same way, and I don't even have a date yet. I think it is perfectly normal to have some trepidation. This is a major change. We will come through this and wonder what we were so worried about. Good luck to you!

I would call your coordinator to find out what is going on. I can understand your frustration. Heck, I have my approval letter, BUT I'm STILL having to wait to schedule... SMH

Once they had all of the information that they wanted, it only took a couple of days. My biggest wait time came because my band doctor's office didn't send all of the information that insurance wanted. After they submitted, insurance requested documentation that I had been following the doctor's eating and exercise plan.

I was told that with a lower BMI, we won't lose as fast. I hate that, but will be glad just to be losing at all. I have gained almost 30 pounds in the last year (ten just since they took out SOME of my fill last month).

good luck!

I have BCBS of Illinois, and they approved my revision last week. I don't have a slip or eroision. I just wasn't getting good restriction AND started regaining weight over the last year. Aslo, like Wheetsin said, call the insurance company. I started calling the day after my paperwork was submitted. I'm sure they are used to patients calling to question the status all of the time.

I hope that they are able to do it in one surgery with no complications. I know that dealing with two surgeries would be stressful AND very expensive. Hopefully the damage won't be very extensive. As for the recovery after the band removal, I don't know. I have known only a couple of people that had their bands out without getting a revision, but they didn't really talk about anything special as far as the diet. I'm sorry that I couldn't help with that part. Good luck and many prayers for you with your surgery.

Can you ask for a heating pad? That helped me with the gas after lapband surgery. I hope it subsides soon.

Congrats! That is so exciting!!

I'm joining early. I am 39, but will turn 40 before the summer is over. I'm not sleeved yet. I have verbal approval (waiting on my official letter to get the ball rolling) for revision from lapband to VSG. I can't wait to get this part of my life started!

I won't miss having my band mysteriously tightening right before my TOM. I won't miss not being able to eat breakfast before10 or 11 a.m.

You're very welcome.

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Thanks! I am so nervous, and it isn't even scheduled yet!

I've not try it with protein powder, but when I was on the liquid phase after getting my lapband(soon to be revised, yay), I used the protein shots in jello. It was very tasty. You could not taste the protein at all.

My band isn't even completely unfilled, and I feel like I starving all of the time. They took out .5cc about a month ago. I have gained about 5 pounds since then. I am not sure when I will be unfilled, if at all... Just got word of approval for revision, but haven't gotten the official letter so I can't schedule yet...

I am truly in agony over the wait. I am in limbo. I have been approved for surgery, but I can't do anything with that information until either I or my doc's office gets the official letter. They won't schedule me. They won't tell me what the next steps are... Nothing... Sigh... This part is for the birds...

I received notice via the insurance company private messaging system that I was approved. The doctor's office won't accept a printed copy of that to schedule. It has to be the official approval letter... I'm thrilled but can't wait to begin the next steps before I chicken out.

Congrats! I jus went through the same thing! They told me that they needed more information, but the letter implied it was a denial letter. I wonder why they send the request on the same letterhead as the denials?

Am so excited!! I just got an email from my insurance company that by revision to sleeve is approved!!! Yes!

Better just a week than several weeks! You are going to do great! The 9th will be here and over before you know it!

They won't schedule until they have the actual letter... I can't print the email to take to them (or frame, shoot) because it is simply a link to their website to get to their private message center.