My Consultation

[blondielou 2]

Sooooo....I had my consultation the other day and I guess I'll start with the good news!

Insurance covers 100%

I have no co-mobilities and other than being overweight, I'm perfectly healthy.

So the not-so-great news

6 month dr. supervised weight program

(which she mainly told me is I go to the dr. once a month and they weigh me, so pretty easy)

Since I have no co-mobilities I have to go & get records from my dr.'s for the past 3 years.

(Which will be time consuming because I don't even have a primary physician, I barely go to the dr., only when I'm sick).

Could take 7-8 months until I get a surgery date.

So all in all it was fine. I still can't fully walk after my ankle surgery in May so I already plan to get more physical once I can walk again (starting with walking which is my, my dr's & my physical therapists goal right now) so I'll be tracking my exercise to show I'm not just doing nothing.

But here's what I'm worried about. She said that 45% of her patients that are banded, fail. 45%!!!!!!!! She did say it was because they eat around the band, soft/mushy foods like mashed potatoes, ice cream, milk shakes and things like that instead of getting in meats (protein) and veggies. Luckily I already read some on here about what you're suppose to do to eat "right" once banded (like eating your Protein first). But that number is scary!! I just keep telling myself that I'm the one ready for the entire lifestyle change. For right now I'll be happy with just being able to walk without excruciating pain!

[LJM 1]

hi blondelou.. i know it sounds stupid..but think about how long you've walking around with the extra weight. I felt like you a couple weeks a go. fortunately my ins is a tad bit more linient than yours it sounds. i also dont have a pcp but do go when im sick..about every 3 yrs. so i do have proof that for the last 5 i have been ow. i 'm not on any meds..so i was thinking today when i went to my consultation with my sx that it would be atleast 6 months before i could get my approval for sx. But lucky to say that all i need is my psych eval and my sx date is already set for 8/18!!

i was planning on waiting and going thru with whatever the sx asked me to do. That is pretty scary what she told you. And i pray to god that i can be parrt of the 55%!! i would hate to fail..once again!!

hand in there..and hope to hear that your going to stick with some sort of weight loss!

Sooooo....I had my consultation the other day and I guess I'll start with the good news!

Insurance covers 100%

I have no co-mobilities and other than being overweight, I'm perfectly healthy.

So the not-so-great news

6 month dr. supervised weight program

(which she mainly told me is I go to the dr. once a month and they weigh me, so pretty easy)

Since I have no co-mobilities I have to go & get records from my dr.'s for the past 3 years.

(Which will be time consuming because I don't even have a primary physician, I barely go to the dr., only when I'm sick).

Could take 7-8 months until I get a surgery date.

So all in all it was fine. I still can't fully walk after my ankle surgery in May so I already plan to get more physical once I can walk again (starting with walking which is my, my dr's & my physical therapists goal right now) so I'll be tracking my exercise to show I'm not just doing nothing.

But here's what I'm worried about. She said that 45% of her patients that are banded, fail. 45%!!!!!!!! She did say it was because they eat around the band, soft/mushy foods like mashed potatoes, ice cream, milk shakes and things like that instead of getting in meats (protein) and veggies. Luckily I already read some on here about what you're suppose to do to eat "right" once banded (like eating your Protein first). But that number is scary!! I just keep telling myself that I'm the one ready for the entire lifestyle change. For right now I'll be happy with just being able to walk without excruciating pain!

[Scott 72511 0]

My insurance company said weight supervised 6 months by my doctor....OR 3 months by a nutritionist. You might want to check into that so you can cut some time off. I have been seeing my nutritionist about 3-4 months pre op and I still continue to see her. Matter of fact I have an apt tomorrow. Good Luck!

Scott

[54Shirley 105]

Here is a good tip ! Since it school time Double pocket folders should be cheap, so buy yourself one.

Every time you go to a Dr. Tell them to give you a print out of your visit, and it must have your weight on this. (IF YOU MISS, YOU START COUNTING FROM MONTH 1 AGAIN) remember that ! Keep all those copies, and what ever else you have to get. If your weighed,,, you want a print out !

Keep it in the file, and when it's time to hand it over to the Ins. person, It's all there.

You should also make copies for yourself, then you have a copy of everything.