Jess55

Each visit I have to pay my copay which is $50, so after 6 visits that is $300, so yeah, even though I am going through my insurance I still have to pay. The nutritionist was not covered with my insurance, but it is $164, for 3 visits, 2 before surgery and 1 after.

In my packet that I got from the seminar it says we only have to do a one week preop diet. I think 4 days of liquids and 3 days of clear liquids.

I am worried about giving up between the 6 month supervised diet as well. I've already done 2 months, so 4 to go and I hope I don't lose focus in the mean time.

I have to wait 'til the 18th 'til I go back and get my results. God am I dreading that appointment. I was wondering, if you have sleep apnea, are they going to force you to use the cpap?

Hi, I have been doing all the pre op testing in order to get my band. I found out a couple days ago that my job is switching insurance companies on September 1st. So here is what I am worried about, would there be any wait time with a new insurance, or if I have all my testing done already it should be ok for them to just do the approval? I plan to have all the tests done before September, I am going on vacation last week in AUgust and coming back September 2nd, so I planned to try to get approved when I come back. Please if you have any info, let me know, I am very worried this will make me wait to get it done.

I am going for a sleep study on Thursday night. I am worried I will not be able to fall asleep. First off, I will be going to sleep earlier than usual, I will be in a weird place, and have wires attatched to me and I usually fall asleep with the TV on (with the sleep timer set). Would it be really bad if I took a benadryl before I go in? I know you are not supposed to but I do not want to be just laying there trying to fall asleep.

I am so very annoyed right now. My first visit with my surgeon last month. I gave him records from WW, proving that I had tried to lose weight for 6 months. He had told me that this was acceptable for bypassing the 6 month monitored weight loss. So I had huge plans to have surgery in September after I got all my tests done. I have been rushing to have all these tests, have an appointment basically on all my days off except for this coming Tuesday, which now my boss talked me into working. Only to get a call today, saying those records are not acceptable and I have to do the 6 month monitored weight loss. I am so pissed off. I have had 2 sessions already, so that is only 4 months left, but that still pushes me into November to have the surgery, or by the time my insurance approves it, December. This completely ruins everything I had planned.

I don't know. I have to go back at the end of August anyways, so I am going to talk to them again then about it.

Well looks like I had a crushing blow today and I will not be able to have my surgery in September. AFter a month ago the surgeon saying my WW wight history was acceptable for the 6 month weight loss. I get a call today saying it is not sufficient. So now I have to wait 4 more months to even submit for approval

I went for my sleep study last night and it totally sucked. If they tell me I need one, I don't know what I will do, I did not have to wear one last night, but it can't be comfortable and I could barely sleep with that other junk on me, there is no way I will wear one. I slept so bad, I went home and went back to sleep(after washing that crap out of my hair), felt much better when I woke up.

LAst night was pretty bad. All those wires. I did fall alseep pretty quickly with how tired I was. Unfortunately I sleep on my stomach, so I was woken up and told I could not sleep on my stomach. I guess it interferes with the EKG or something. If I don't sleep on my stomach I usually can only sleep for short intervals. Like I've fallen asleep on my back, but wake up like 20 minutes later. So I slept (very uncomfortably) on my side, and woke up so many times. I had a horrible nights sleep. They finally had me get up at a quarter to 6, and I was so tired. I went home and washed my hair to get the crap out of it and went back to sleep. So this study was really in n way reflective of how I usually sleep. I really hope I passed, because I cannot do that again. At one point she came in to check my nasal cannula and I really hope something just fell out and that did not mean I stopped breathing or something. So yeah it sucked and I cannot do that again, so if I did not pass, I will have to talk to the Dr., since it is no way reflective of my true sleep.

Thank you Lisa_MC. I have to go in in about an hour. I hope I can sleep alright, but the fact that I did not sleep well last night, no caffeine today and I have been tired for a few hours, I am hoping I can fall asleep relatively easily. I am worried about having all those wires on me. I can be a rough sleeper.

I hope to e able to join this group. I am still doing pre op stuff, but will be done by the end of August. I can't submit anything to my insurance until after the 1st of September though, because my company is changing plans on the first, so I have to wait for that and then submit everything to the new insurance.

Congratulations! I am flying 4 weeks from today and I am dreading the flight due to the seat belt situation, I probably will need one. I was at this weight a while ago and did not need one, but I gained weight since then and lost it again, but when I regained it, it all went to my butt it seems, and it hasn't really left there yet.

Hopefully I wil be tired, I will be at work 8am -6pm that day, and I have to get there at 9 pm, so hopefully I will be tired, or maybe they will give me something. I am glad to hear they have TV's in the room (I hope it is in all centers) My job asked me to work at 8 am the day after (or the day I wake up) and they said yu leave at 6:30, so I had to say no, because by the time I get hme and take a shower and walk the dogs, I won't be able to get there in time (Well I didn't tell her that, I just said that I could not) and I am not sure how restful the nights sleep will be. I am kind of a light sleeper sometimes Though I do live near train tracks and that doesn't wake me up, but when I am in a different place, I am. I have to go in tomorrow night, so I hope it goes well. I better not have sleep apnea, or I am going to go crazy. Heck I went for my stress EKG today, and surprise it cam out normal. What a shocker considering I am 27 and don't have a huge risk factor for heart disease.

Same with me, I do not have sleep apnea, nor do I snore, but they also wanted me to have one.

The cardiologist I went to also is making me do a stress EKG and get an echocardiogram. He said my EKG was normal. I am only 27, I really am unsure why I need to have them done. My surgeon doesn't require them either. Anyways I have my stress EKG on Wednesday and the echo on the 6th.

All these posts I've seen about dr's not filling that much has me wondering what my dr. is going to do. I have an appointment tomorrow for another consult to see how I am getting along with all my pre op stuff, but I am going to ask him about fills. I know he said for the first year I would see him every month, but I don't know how much of that is fills.

My surgeon had not said no soda, but I've only seen him once so far, I have an appointment on Tuesday, so will ask then. I have not had surgery yet, still doing the pre op tests. I will be quite sad if I can never drink soda again. Well since I started not drinking with meals it has drastically reduced my soda intake, because I used to drink a can with lunch and dinner and wylers the rest of the day. I still have one every few days and don't want to give it up completely. I don't drink coffee or anything, so if I am really tired and I need some caffeine to wake me up a diet coke is all I really have for caffeine.

Remember you are doing this for yourself and nobody else. The only person I have told is my mother, I don't want to hear anyone elses opinions. About 4 years ago, I was deadset on having gastric bypass after seeing a coworker do wonderfully from it. I went to a consult and did a psych eval and a seminar, the more I thought about it, the more I did not like the mal absorption part of it, and of course the dumping syndrome. I did not want to never eat chocolate again. I decided, I can do this without surgery. fast forward to present, I decided that I would do the lap band. I recently heard the woman who had the GB recently had an intusseception (intestines basically telescope inside themselves) I feel this was due to the GB, I have seen animals with this condition due to a few factors, but never had heard of a person with it. I would love to lose the weight as fast as I could with GB, but now I feel losing it slower is better and I am going to learn better eating habits, and I will still be able to have chocolate once in a while in moderation. But remember again, this is your decision and no one else's!

Beleive me, I understand Dr's visits leading to even more than you thought. I went to a pulmonologist, thinking that was it, they told me I had to go for a sleep study and a chest rad and then go back to them. Then I went for my cardiac consult and they said I have to get an echo, and a stress EKG and then go back to them for the results. Then I went for my GI, and they said I needed to get an upper endo and then go back for the results (Well that one I expected), but yeah, I have seen more Dr's then I have in a long time. Well especially since I had not been to a PCP in like 5 years. So yeah the testing takes a while. Plus you have to do the 3 or 6 months monitored weight loss. Luckily I had records from WW, which was accepted for that, so I did not have to do it again.

Thank you Shelley, that makes me feel better.

Your guys stories make me feel a bit less anxious about the surgery. I mean I work in an animal hospital, in the ER part actually and I have been seeing animals go into the OR (whether it be just spays/neuters, or splenectomies or more) for over 15 years, but I have never been myself or seen a person go in. I just have a question, I hope someone will answer. I am a very modest person, are you awake when you are naked on the operating table, before they knock you out? This is what worries me. May sound stupid, but that is my most nerve wracking part of it.

Your guys stories make me feel a bit less anxious about the surgery. I mean I work in an animal hospital, in the ER part actually and I have been seeing animals go into the OR (whether it be just spays/neuters, or splenectomies or more) for over 15 years, but I have never been myself or seen a person go in. I just have a question, I hope someone will answer. I am a very modest person, are you awake when you are naked on the operating table, before they knock you out? This is what worries me. May sound stupid, but that is my most nerve wracking part of it.

Congrats! Best of luck on your journey now, I can't wait until I join the land of the banded.