renegadebkr

Hi Sb, It is not you I too am a lapband failure well not me but the lapband. Mine started leaking after about 9 months. I went from 287lbs. down to 260 lbs. that didn't count my presurgery weight loss i was 313 lbs. at start. My port actually rejected from my body and came out through the skin. So i had to get mine removed and due to scar tissue I had to wait to get my sleeve. I finally get it next week. That doc you have I would talk to your insurance company about him and see if they would let you change and drop his A_ _ like a hot potato. I gained 30 lbs back because of a faulty lapband and me liking to eat thats why I went the WLS route. So chin up, dump his A_ _ and get moving on the insurance company but ask the insurance company what they would recommend.... Oh and put the crying act on hard it always works. Hope everything turns out for you. :thumbup:

Hi all I am new on here I just found this site and like it already. Well I started out 1 year and 7 months ago on this weight loss surgery. My insurance company would not approve the sleeve after I was denied 3 times and fought them for over 6 months. I finally rolled over like a dog and gave up and settled on the lapband ( Big Mistake ). I thought well I can work with this and make it do what I want it to do.....NOT. This thing I had inside of me sucked to the max, I had a hole by the port that never healed, I couldn't feel any restriction after about 3 months after 3 fills. Finally to make a long story short the band failed by leaking and the port rejected from my body and came out of the skin a year to the day of my surgery. I in the meantime found out that my insurance company started approving the sleeve 3 months after I got the band (Imagine that) Anyway the insurance company approved me for the removal and revision to sleeve if there wasn't to much scar tissue to do both then they would give me later approval well guess what to much scar tissue. I am now so excited that on July 19th I will finally get what I wanted in the first place My sleeve. So all of this cost the insurance company a total with the 3 surgeries $76,292.00 when if they would have gave me what I wanted in the first place the total cost would have been $26,350.00. No wonder insurance cost so much. So I am hoping to be a regular on here after my surgery. :thumbup: