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Hello, I used the Atkins shakes from Wal Mart. His office should have sent you an email stating what should and shouldn't eat. You might call them and ask them if you didn't get information for your diet. Good luck! I hope all goes well for you!! :smile2:

This was my doctor and he was great!! I highly recommend him. He is one of the leading surgeons in the LapBand.

I would approach it from the point of view that it's soley for your health. Don't tell them it's so that you can get skinny. Tell them you want to do it for health reasons. This will then leave room for you to say that one of the benefits is that you will lose weight. Hopefully if you approach it from that point of view they will understand. Just be careful to always remember that you reinforce that you are doing it so that you can be healthy. With being healthy comes the benefits of losing weight! YAY!:cursing: I hope that helps!

I also have UHC and they paid 100% of my surgery. I had to paid for the anesthesiologist. I just got a bill yesterday actually. It was $184.00. Not bad though. My dr billed my insurance $36,000.00 for my surgery and they got paid $3000.00. Big difference! All UHC plans are different though. The best thing to do is call customer service. This will give you an idea of what to expect. Customer service actually told me that I would pay almost $2000.00 out of pocket. I never did. So that's why I say at least you will have an idea.

Hi there. I went through Dr Richard Benavides in Richardson. He is well known surgeon in the area. In fact, I live almost 6 hours from Richardson and I have ran into several people here in town that have had the LB done by him. You can see his credintialing on his website. He's a great doctor and I highly recommend him. I am not sure of the cash paying cost. Thank goodness, my insurance paid for mine. I hope that Helps! :thumbup:

Hello. I too was banded in October and have only lost 20lbs. I felt a little discouraged until Friday. I had a fill of 1.5cc's and I can definately tell! I feel confident about this fill. This puts me at a total of 6cc's. I have already lost 4lbs!!! Just keep your head up. Losing is losing and some of us lose slower that others. I have decided that there is nothing wrong with that and I don't need to compare my self to others who are banded. I would rather lose than gain! I too felt normal...like I didn't have a band until this last fill. Then I went to eat and ate too fast. I threw up for the first time. :w00t: Well, now I know to slow down and chew my food. My NP told me that I should really start feeling and seeing a difference on my 2nd or 3rd fill. I am on my 2nd fill and IM FEELING IT! Good luck and chin up!

:ohmy: I am so glad that I came across this post! I was banded back in October and I have only lost 20lbs. I felt so discouraged that I didn't even want to show my "face" again on Lap Band Talk. Yesterday is the first time I have logged on in a long time. I have had one fill and my band is up to 5cc's. I am so glad, in a way, that I am not the only one that is having this problem. I go for my second fill on the 23rd of this month and I hope that it really helps. I am so scared of failure.:laugh: Thanks again for posting this and boosting my hopes!!!