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I am sorry. The lap band was not covered 5 years ago due to the investigational issue..... could they do it as the first step to ds and just forget the rest......if you are heavy enough? If your ins company might cover that? I really am sorry.....I know how hard it it was when I was told I could not ge tthe band...... so off to Mexico I went. Had they had the sleeve as an option five years ago....I would have skipped the band...... but other than the last 3 months of my pregnancy I never had issues and I did love my band!

I like the ready to drink Isopure.....40 g and a clear liquid i drink it over 2 hours right now. I got a great deal $1.18 - $2,09 each cause they expired in August....... P also like GNC Performance 95 (25 mg soy protein) it is a mix! I kept those slim fast & the ones w/ carbs in my car when I was pregnany w/ my band cause I never knew how iy would go.. they aren'y horrible

Well I wil be interested. they could not use the buterfly stiches and the glue cause they used the same holes as three times before!!! so I have actual stiches on four of them. The other was fine with the glue! I was going to look into something. THough I know the ones I had with the glue were so very small after 6 months the only one you could see was the port one (for the band) and that one they left alone this time.

My new PCP will order them for me... she should just code the teasts as she would if she was ordering to my understandining it is not a "bariatric panel" or a special upper GI... I only paid out of pocket for stuff I didn't want my insurance company to know about.....fills and other stuff. I did go to Mexico for an endo scope....... but that was when I had the band. You could say wour are experienceing a lot of reflux if you wanted,,,,, I do not lie but I do not give my insurance company any more information than they need either. I even waited to get life insurance till we were past the " why did you loose so much weight and the 3 year surgery / doctor look back" and if I needed Fluid or their was an Emergency they would send me to the hospital here where there is a Bariatric Program and he would take care of it under dyhydrations,....... usually the cause is not the issue....... for my with the big emergency I had with my band.....they paid for all, including the consultations with the bariatric surgeons the xrays and endoscopes..... the anethiasologist (sp) and all the or stuff just not the surgeons fees for the actual surgery or when he tried removing the last 1 ml (which was suppossed to not be there)....... he is still fighting my insurance company due to the life threatening for me and the baby......I sort of gave up........ I just decided it was worth ot not to have gotten the whole bill!

Normal....... you are propbably having a lot of last time I can eat this for X number of weeks!!!! Very hard! I put on three myself......... had to have some hot wings (which do purree nicely...... I have a son who loves them and was on pureed stuff after his g-tube for about -8 months!)......lots of pickles and of course the last time I would eat a whole steak! You will be ok!

I set my first goal (with the band at 165) Just under the bmi of 25 cause of my frame I hide weight well and would have a lot of weight due to extra skin......however as I approached that number I decided I wanted to go to 150. When all was said in done I hung out most of the time (with the band) at 153 - 160. Which is a little below the BMI of 25 for my 68 1/2 inch frame. I was afraid to get much lower Cause I was a size 8-10 on the bottom and a small on top and my breasts were gone!

I had my surgery tuesday and am also able to drink as before.....same worry here too! I keep taking out my two different leak x rays and looking at the stomach to make sure it is all gone! (yep....not there) But I also "feel a little like when my band was full ......just a little tickle ....so I know that something is different. I have not tried yougurt. We are asked for 7-10 days clear and then 10 days full before starting mushies. SO I am just on clears. And occasionally hungry! But I am using RTD Isopure witht he 40 g Protein....2 a day and really only feel head hunger.....when i am cooking for the kids or smell others food....like at airport! Hope all is ol for you!

When are you going? The direct to SAN DIEGO is one of the ones being cut in august. i can not remember the date but it was w/ a huge announcement last week. aa was cutting another 30+ direct flights. I think it was after 15th of august

I had no problem bring mine to SAD......as long as they fit in the bag...... I also had one in my medicine bag

I live there.....south west had a direct (no plne change flight) both directions & it was only 4 hours on the plane monday. Same fora return. AA has only one direct till the end of august....... one of the ones getting dropped......I wanted that but it was so much more expensive than when I made resevations than when i looked (that 21 day thing)......but I was waiting on my expidited passport to come! before I purchased......did not turn out the way I planned.

did you try the iso pure ready to drink ones....... expensive...... but i like so much better that the powders. I lucked out and got four 12 packs for 1/2 price cause thhe were to expire aug first! They taste good to me! especially compared to the powdered.......i figure i will use the all before then. I also really like the soy Protein 95!

FYI....TPN sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still threw up......we tried ng tube first going through my band's stoma.....puked also!!!!!!!! it is my biggest fear again! short of my husbands layoff.....which scares me more!

What size "stomach" do you have......I can't remember how to even spell the "b" word....My husband has nicknamed it the bannana! My surgeon mostly prefers to use a 32......just interested and wondering if the size has anything to do with long term success or not?

when banded....my sign was "sneezing". I learned to stop with the sneeze! one more bite after that was "evil" I am wondering if sleved will be the same

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great to hear it!

My policy here now reads no expenses to to any type of bariatric surgery (revision or fixes included). we have lost three appeals on getting them to pay for the parts they would not cover.....we even asked for the part i paid to come off the individual and family deductible....no luck. Our state insurance commission said if they exclude bariatric surgert....they can exclude whatever the deem related to it.....in our case what came down to life saving for the baby they paid for.....because of our maternity contract. ironically untill this last pregnancy....i had no problems....at goal and happy with my band and xrays and endo to prove it 1 month prior to conception I was told that it varies from state to state and then based on how policy was written. My dr here is making one last appeal...... but i am not holding out hope.

my insurance paid for certain things...... the hospitalization, the anesthia and the dr except for the actual surgeon fees (4 k billed to insurance.....requied to pay 2850 ....the part insurance would have paid him) or his little followers fees unless it was hospital visit. I also had to pay my deductible 1500$ but my whole hospital stay was well over 100K ....I also had an emergency c-section too caused by the lap band issue and need for surgery......the covered all this too!

i KNOW THAT TPN SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Spent nearly 25 days on it at home and in and out of hospital........waiting for the baby to mature enought so if he had to be delivered when the took the band it would be safer fo him! I have no words of wisdom for how toget through it......it was the most horrible time in my life! I am so happy you family is with you........ thinking good thoughts for your speedy recovery!

Glad all is well!

lad it went so well!

Welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And great job!

I know that when I did atkins for several minths and religiouly followed it! I threw and egg and got pregnant with my first biological child (10+ years of trying) SInce I never had any sort of regular periods I was almost 4 months pregnant before realizing.....this was all pre band! I got banded 12 1/2 months or so after Adrian's birth and with in two weeks and shedding the weight.... I started having periods every 2-3 weeks till I reached original goal of 175..... Then they switched to regular and I was on to a new goal! I got pregnant 5+ more times since the first with two carried to term! One with the band and one ended my band and was a preemie cause if it, I took metformin for three years before atkins, i did loose some weight with it..... and I still take it....cause if I do not..... it is way to easy to put on weight! I am scared cause Dr. is now thinking since I want no more kids he should take me off the metformin..............my husband said he would buy it on the b;ack market if he did.......cause it helps me with my mood swings (not suppossed too,,,,, buy both of us really believe it did! Good luck and I really think it will help...... but the PCOS does help make loosing weight harder imho with or without the band!

welcome! and such awesome treatment and great work!

Congrats on your sleev-ersary! and your stats are awesome!!!!!!