Hi everyone!! I am currently in the process of the Gastric Sleeve procedure! I have already completed my nutrition evaluation, my exercise fitness evaluation, and psychological evaluation. I also had a sleep study done, due to have suspected sleep apnea. Turns out I have obstructive sleep apnea. Besides having OSA, I have have a ventricular septal defect with an abnormal heart murmur, which I need 1 comorbidity seeing as my BMI is under 40 and at 38. I have Anthem (PPO) and the requirements are 3 months of supervised weight loss management, which my last day would be towards the end of Oct. My surgeon is very positive that I will be approved and should be able to schedule in November, fingers crossed. Everyone I have seen from the nutritionist, the psychologist, and my surgeon, they are all very very positive that I will be having this surgery done. Even when I saw my surgeon last week to go over the results from the evaluations he said the next time I would be seeing him is in the OR, so I am trying to very hopeful and very positive about it but having to wait on the insurance company to say if you are approved or not is making me stress out. Any tips or helpful words to get through this next 2 months?
