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I'm a 34yr old mom of two boys of will be 15 on may 15th and the lil one is 3 1/2! I've been a big girl since I can remember, my highest weight was 380 and now I'm around 270. I'm so ready for a life change!!! It sucks when your life has been on hold for so long because of this weight!!! Ugh!!! Gotta stay positive. I love reading all of your posts about your journeys it is so inspiring!! I hope I'll be able to get off the bp meds and cpap machine, and that the symptoms from pcos subside.. Praying for you all much love

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Wow, you lost 110 pounds on your own!!! That is great!!

Insurance is usually based on BMI and co-morbidity issues... being on a CPAP would be a co-morbidity issue, and along with a high BMI hopefully your insurance will indeed cover it! Easy enough to call them and check; and they may have requirements for following a two to six month supervised diet program, and pysch evaluation, before approving surgery. Most of that stuff is handled by the WLS surgeon's office.

Good luck to you!

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Zacknjordonsmom

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May I ask who your insurance company is mine is blue cross blue shield and I was approved in roughly 3 days

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Well have my pre op next Wednesday .Getting really excited about it too

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Thank you labwalker yes in 2004 I was 380 and lost some weight and then in January 2012 I joined WW at 340... Weight loss has stopped and couple of pounds are creeping back up :( but I wanna be here for my boys!!!!

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