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Ruptured disc and back surgery in the midst of battling Cigna



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I've been trying desperately to get approved by Cigna since April! I cannot tell you how difficult Cigna has been! I've done several medically supervised WL programs but not in the past 6 months! So, I finally get down to the one thing they say I'm lacking and that's 90 days with a nutritionist to go over diet and exercise! After our first visit, they said the notes made no mention of exercise so that one won't count! Well, I had just gotten out of a boot that week from a torn ligament in my ankle! The very next weekend, I ruptured a disc in my Lower back. I've been out 2 weeks on my back and just had surgery so I will be out another 2 weeks in recovery! I have a bmi of 41 and 2 co-morbidities! What more do they need?

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This happened to me in 1987. I was in so much pain at work I finally caved in and went to go home. It was night shift on an early Friday morning before Memorial Day weekend. I walked half way out and my legs lost feeling and I grabbed a railing so I did not fall. I was taken to hospital and a neurosurgeon came in. Because of the holiday he couldn't even run the appropriate tests. I could not walk. I laid in that bed for 5 days before they did the surgery. Most painful surgery I ever had. By the grace of god I had lost some weight at that time and was down to 224 instead of my normal at that time of life of 250.

Best of luck to you.

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