VaLadyRose1965

Just want to say Hello! Just trying to find out more about LapBand Surgery. Seeing if anyone has had luck yet with Tricare Prime approval in my area. I looked into this about 1 year ago and was told I would have to pay out of pocket that Tricare did not support the the LapBand Surgery. So I just got discouraged and threw all the Weight Loss Clinic info in the garbage. I knew I could never afford the money and if they wouldn't approve the surgery what was the use. I surely didn't want to do a FULL GASTRIC BY-PASS. Heard to many horror stories on that subject. Well I am now figuring LapBand surgery has come a long way with great success let me see if there are any differences now. So I am back at researching this and see if anyone is having any approvals through Tricare Prime. One other thing that has me looking at this more and more is that I am possibly diabetic or at least borderline. I have not been to Dr yet but all the symtoms are there. So that will be at yet another thing that makes me even more unhealthy. So here goes it....got any news out there? If so drop me a note.

Thank you for the warm welcome. I am sure hoping to get started on this again and have a happier and healthier future. I want to see my kids married and have me some grand babies. I want to be a grandma that can keep up with the little ones. Please let me know how your stuff goes. I will be continuing to read and post around here. Hopefully I will find others that have had dealings with TriCare and had a good outcome. I could use the good news. I don't want to go the drastic Full gastric by-pass that is just way TOO scary. AGAIN thanks for the warm welcome.

I too am new to this site. I stumbled acrossed when I was google TriCare Prime for the LapBand Surgery. So I decided to join and see if anyone has had any luck with approval through TriCare for the LapBand. I started to look into this a year ago and was told TriCare wouldn't approve the LapBand only full gastrice by-pass so I just gave up. Well I thought this is a new year and just maybe TriCare has come around to a new way of thinking about this surgery. So thought I would look around here and see if there was any luck to be found. So I see your thread was from last year any luck so far/