New To The Site!

[victoria24 0]

I am new to this site, and have found it to be very informative. I started this journey on August 8th with the seminar. I now have met with the Diet/Nut, Excercise Phys, Psych eval, MD eval, a Stress/Echo and had my sleep study last night. I have a follow up on the 17th with excercise, and have to do a body comp, a follow up with the MD on the 20th and hopefully I will get a surgery date. Does anyone know if they set a surgery date and then send all info to the insurance company, or do they submit all info and wait for approval before setting a date? I am so anxious to have this done! Oh, and can you fail a sleep study? I don't think I did very well:( I tossed and turned all night!!

[maxskillz 43]

Welcome!!!

[Tammy310 43]

Welcome!

First, you can't fail a sleep study. It is done to see if you have Obstructive sleep Apnea (stop breathing during sleep). If you have it, they may or may not decide to prescribe you a CPap or BiPap machine to sleep with. I've heard that most docs don't bother because supposedly the surgery will cure the apnea, ie: weight loss fixes it.

For the insurance question... I'm not sure if it is physician preference but my doc made me do the requirements and THEN he sends to insurance. Once the surgery is approved I can get a date and start to do any Pre-op testing that may be required. (chest xray, ekg, medical clearance, etc.)

Best of luck to you.

[Holly5.3 423]

Hi there fellow newbie! Although I hadn't had my Pulmonilogist appt. at the time of my last visit w: Bariatric surgeon they were submitting everything else to my ins. And gave me a date (10/11/12) and Pre-op appt. Unfort. My sleep apnea was worse than I thought so I have to do another over-night study ("titration"). I found I am Pre-diabetic and have a hernia! (I was shocked as I was more worried about my heart having yo-yo dieted my whole life! My  is fine!) so far this is the only stumbling block I've encountered- but not breathing at night isn't too good either and not getting enough oxygen can cause wright gain- I didn't know that! My oxygen levels dropped to 85 o/o - below 90 is bad. Good luck and don't take testing lightly, you may find out things you didn't know but can fix!