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@@time4change15 I know you will get past this stall! I think you are doing great! Your ticker is insane girl!

@@time4change15 I'm not sure if I understand your situation correctly. Are you just 15 days post-op? I am still pre-op but my surgeon and nutritionist have given me my packet for my diet from step down, my liquid 2 week pre-op prep, then Day 1-3 Post-Op, Days 3-7, 7-14, 14-21, etc up to the 8th week which is the first time I get to have solid food. At that time I get to have pea sized soft foods. I must wait one minute between each bite. My surgeon may be conservative. He has never had a patient with a leak. Do you make your chicken salad with mayo? I no longer eat high fat foods or breads and I am pre-op. Also it seems really early for you to be doing anything but walking. Again I can only go by my surgeons guidelines. Despite all that your weight loss is incredible!!!! Twenty pounds in 2 weeks! Your body is stabilizing. Many people have said they gain in the first few weeks due to all the IV fluids. Don't be too hard on yourself. I'm sure you will fo great. You should have a follow up appointment real soon and the MD will allay all your fears.

Of course it counts! Congrats!!!!!! Keep me posted on your progress, you can add me as a friend if you want.

I'm not sure what Medicaid covers. You can probably Google it but I have Coventry Advantra Medicare in Louisiana and they cover it with a BMI > 35 and 2 co-morbidities. Sleep Apnea diabetes would count as the 2.

Call your insurance tomorrow yourself! I was given conflicting information but was able to have it clarified. If you have an approval you should be able to find out. You do need medical clearance but that is something your primary care physcian can write and fax to your surgeeon to send in to your insurance. You must advocate for yourself. I am going through this right now. I do not have a date yet, in the data gathering process and it is like pulling teeth. You would think the surgeon's office would coordinate the whole thing but that is not the case. I have scheduled tests I thought would benefit my case then hand carried the results to my surgeon. I call my other MD's and prod them to fax results to the surgeon repeatedly. I call AND email my surgeons Coordinator to see what she has and has not received. I have called my insurance company several times to clarify the guidelines. Have I ruffled a few feathers? Probably. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. I retired 3 years ago after being a RN Supervisor for 20+ years. These MD offices are busy -don't let them put you on the back burner. Sounds like they admitted missing a deadline. Organize this project yourself - you can do it!!

Only my husband and my daughter that lives with me knows. My sister knows that I was looking into it and was supportive. My mother was afraid of me dying in surgery so is not. I don't have a date yet but I don't plan to tell anyone else until Thanksgiving when it will be obvious to family by my eating choices. No one else because I don't want to hear that I took the "easy" way.

Retired RN (2011) From Louisiana. Hoping to be Sleeved by the end of March. Should be submitting for approval in the next 3 weeks.

@@Salonboi how did your appointment go? I have had Bronchitis so I haven't posted much. I have my next appointment March 5 with the NUT. Still trying to get all the documentation required in before then. Please update me on your status!! If you prefer private message me - Lynne.

I am so happy to hear everything went so well! I have not posted much lately due to my bronchitis which is resolved (fingers crossed). Looks like your decision to go to Mexico was a great one!! Wow I hope I can do as well as you! I'm still waiting for my Dr.'s offices to send records to my surgeon. Then I will do psych eval. I did my sleep study and hand carried the results to the surgeon lol! I still don't understand why they need 2 years of documentation of co-morbids when my BMI has been over 40 for the last 2 years and it is a Medicare Advantage Program. Supposedly they have to follow Medicare guidelines... Well now I need one more co-morbid but as I explained before they are not cut and dry. Really wish it was not so nebulous. Please keep up the play by play. It is so helpful!! What medication i.e. Gas-Ex strips has been your best ally against gas?

So I went to my consult on the 5th and the office says my Coventry Advantra medicare Louisiana excludes WLS when they call customer service. I push so they call back and it's BMI >35 with 2 comorbids. But what if I had left? Then she wanted me to get the records from my PCP. Now she says she'll try once but then it's on me. She has 200 patients and she also isn't going to photo copy 2 inches of paper work. (they want last 2 years). So i'm redoing my sleep study tomorrow. That's 1. But all my labs over the last 2 years are normal. So is my blood pressure. I'm pre diabetic and my blood pressure is controlled with HCTZ. I am on atorvastatin for my cholesterol and that has kept it between 195 - 209. My LDL is great and always has been. So last chance - arthritis. I was treated 10 years ago at a pain clinic. MRIS whole bit. They no longer have my records. New law, you can destroy them after 6 years. So my PCP probably has me complaining about my back but I weaned myself off the duragesic patch and narcotics years ago. He doesn't treat my arthritis. Am I doomed?

@@JerseyCityGal Thanks, I read your link. What I am worried about is that my insurance list the surgery as a specific exclusion on my policy. The only comorbids they accept are DM, HTN, Sleep Apnea and Hypercholesteremia I have come to find out and I must have documentation from the ladt 2 years. My Dr. has documented my blood pressure as within normal parameters and my cholesterol lab values are normal although I do take medication. If my surgeon's office was more motivated I guess I would feel more positive.

They also don't count GERD which I Have so bad it has caused blood blisters on my vocal cords that are not responding to treatment.

I'm sorry this is on here multiple times. I'm seems my iPhone app had a brain fart.

So I saw my NUT for my first consultatation pre-op yesterday and she wants me to take 500 mg calcium with 1000 D3 chewable, liquid or powdered. I'm not going to buy pills now when tbey estimate my surgery to be in 6 weeks. I looked at Sam's , Walmart and Walgreens and all the chewable Calcium are pure sugar. What do you guys buy?

Thank you all so much! I am looking into all your suggestions as we speak. I knew I could count on my Bariatric Pals!

I meant to say she wants me to take this 3 times a day!

You posted just not in a place anyone is at right now. Look at the other forums

You posted just not in a place anyone is at right now. Look at the other forums

You posted just not in a place anyone is at right now. Look at the other forums

You posted just not in a place anyone is at right now. Look at the other forums

Way to go!!!!

Ugghhh!!! And hard to force yourself to drink smelling poop!!