TRClark23

I wanted to add a quick update, I got the approval from my insurance! I’m scheduled for June 23rd! 🎉

I wanted to do a bit of an update, frustrating as it is... My final doctors appointment was on May 3rd and at this particular appointment, I finished by meeting with the office manager and hearing what the next steps would be. She told me that it could take up to a month for insurance to approve the surgery and that I'd be hearing from them. All of the research that I've done online, all of the videos that I've watched of other people's journey's all pretty much showed that it's usually less than 10 days. I'm sure that's not true for everyone, but that's what I've seen. I got a notice from a debt collector last week saying that one of my appointments hadn't been covered by my insurance, so I called my doctors office to see what was going on with that and they apologized for a billing error. I asked while I had them on the phone if they had heard anything back from insurance yet about my surgery and she got kinda quiet for a second, they said she wasn't sure if they had everything that they needed to submit my file to insurance, then she says "oh yeah, we have everything we need." We're probably going to send it today (this was on Friday) or Monday. Talk about irritated, it's been almost three weeks since my last appointment! Oh well, hopefully everything goes a little smoother from here on out.

That's amazing, 122lbs is awesome!

Yeah, never thought I'd say I was happy about having sleep apnea and high blood pressure, but here we are! 😂 Thank you

Thank you everyone, I appreciate all of the kind words and well wishes. I can't wait wait to get started. ☺️

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I wanted to ask and not create a new one... I tried to find my doctor in your surgeon search and was unsuccessful. How can I go about having him added? https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-david-lam-2ymfj https://generalsurgeonsofpasadena.com/physicians/profile/Dr-David-N-Lam-MD He's affiliated with HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast Hospital.

Congrats! How has the liquid diet been for you so far?