Froggi

I started my journey of everything in April. I'm 22, 23 in august and I weigh 419 pounds. April 5th was my seminar. April 18th was my consultation. I had Xrays and blood work done April 23rd all turned up negative. :thumbup: And now I start my 6 months of supervised diet and exercise on May 6th. I'm sad that I have to do 6 months but at first the insurance said 1 year so 6 months is nothing! I'm already using baby silverware to teach myself to take small bites and chewing chewing chewing! I'm eating smaller amounts, and I took junk food and sodas out of my diet completely! And now I'm also waiting on my Psych evaluation appt. My EKG appointment (they heard an irregular heartbeat at my consultation) and then I have the endoscopy and 2 week preop diet those will probably be around October! Either way I don't have that long to wait considering i started learning stuff about lapband toward the beginning of the year and they just started it where I live in March. My insurance approved me already just have to do this 6 month thingy :thumbup: Either way I'm VERY happy.

Okay I have a question. I know my insurance approved to pay for this if I do the 6 month supervised diet which I am but after I do everything do I have to have it all sent in again and get approved again? I'm getting confused due to some posts I read lol.

I sure hope the 6 months goes by quickly. I think it will though because I have other appointments and such to goto while waiting, like the psych evaluation and all of these nutritional classes every other week. My mom keeps making my worry about the psych evaluation but I think I'll do fine. She can be frustrating. I just don't like waiting I have never been a patient person, it's hard.

My insurance is different but it took about a week and a half to finally find out if it was covered and approved. Right now I am starting my 6 month supervised diet on tuesday actually. It's very hard waiting I kept calling and stuff...finally one day i was at the dr's office to have my blood pressure checked and they said they got the paperwork. All insurances are different though. Don't give up and try to be patient. I have to wait 6 months for my surgery and I'm trying my best to make it go quickly. Think positive.

I'm 22 and I'm just starting my 6 month diet if things go well I should be having my surgery in november