DonnaK.

I'm just frustrated. Seriously. It's so hard to choose the right surgeon. I don't have insurance that will cover VSG and I'm going to do self-pay in Mexico. But the more I investigate the more I get frustrated. I contacted "alighterme"and was contacted by one of their reps and she was so confusing BC she's referring to these people (who would be my driver, etc) and it didn't make sense.... Until I got info from "obesity solutions international" she works for both companies and got her employees mixed up. I guess for her it's a win/win situation. One is $500 higher than the other so if her client doesn't go with one company then they can go with the other. Whatever, it worries me BC if she can't keep her employees straight and which company she's representing straight, how is she going to keep my details straight? I checked out Mexicosurgerysolutions and I'm seriously considering them instead. They aren't as advertised but it seems even more legit. I'd be in a hospital. Not a clinic in a strip mall. I'd recover in a hospital, not a "recovery house" that is over-crowded with no emergency room in case something were to go wrong, and I'd see the surgery team for longer than 5 minutes prior to my surgery. But they are a little more expensive than some of the others. They do use the BajaMed group, but how good are those surgeons? I'm just overwhelmed and needed to vent

Here I am sitting at 308 lbs, well that is what they weighed me in at the doctor's office on May 9th 2012. I went for my first consult. The dr says he does not think showing a medical need will be any problem. It is just a wait and see game to know what hoops the insurance(Aetna) is going to make me jump through. The office said it will take about 2 weeks to hear back from the insurance company. Come on 2 weeks. I am ready to start a life that has me playing the lead as a smaller ME!
 
I have been fat my entire life and it has caused me such mental pain and now it is causing me physical pain as well. This is the largest I have EVER been in my entire life. When you hit rock bottom I guess there is only one way to go and that is up. My weight got out of hand after being pregnant 5 times. I have had two miscarriages and 3 live births. I was on bed rest with the last two for a good half of the pregnancy. Since that time I can not make the scale move in the opposite direction. It just keeps moving up.
 
I want to be able to chase my girls and play without being afraid of hurting one of them. It is funny the larger I get the more I just want to hide and the more impossible being able to hide gets.
 
Does anyone have Aetna? If so what kind of experience did you have?