Looking For A Buddy (Mil/virginia)

[MonicaMuncy 4]

Are you in North or south?

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

What was the hardest part of getting banded?

Thanks for the heads up, I will start looking, via the web tomorrow.

all the pre ops (time consuming)

and the all liquid 2 week pre and post op's diet

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

tricare north prime

[MonicaMuncy 4]

So we have the same insurance. So I will find a dr over the weekend so that I have a name to take with me on monday

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

you take charge and take control. you can do this.

look online for surgeons in your area

[MonicaMuncy 4]

Thank you! I needed that

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

here for you anytime

you can pm me or email or whatever you need

[MonicaMuncy 4]

I called around today, but they said to call tricare. Tricare said they didn't have a list, that I would have to compare general surgeons to the bariatric surgeons....

I am thinking I will have a long talk with the nutritionist and then make a follow up with my new PCM.

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

I called around today, but they said to call tricare. Tricare said they didn't have a list, that I would have to compare general surgeons to the bariatric surgeons....

I am thinking I will have a long talk with the nutritionist and then make a follow up with my new PCM.

surely, if you call any bariatric office, they will or should tell you if they accept tricare. i must have called 3 or 4 before i found the one i did whodid accept it. perhaps your nutritionist will know one.

[Daddyof4 95]

Hi Monica, I don't have Tricare but I do have the leg tingling/numbness you describe. I had back surgery in Feb 2010 for sudden pain and lack of response in my right foot; had what they call a discectomy where the surgeon removes enough of the disc to stop the symptoms. This time my primary care doctor advised lose weight first and then if it continues go the MRI route. You don't say where in VA you are but I had my surgery done at Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax with Bluepoint. I've heard that Virginia Hospital Center, formerly Arlington Hospital, is now a Center of Excellence for Bariatric surgery so you might try them. My sons were born there and we liked it very much.

I'm glad yoiu left that awful first doctor in your dust - she didn't deserve any better. Good luck, I'm sure you'll find the right surgeon who takes Tricare. Hang in there!