January Dates

[mrspitts11367 17]

I am so happy!!! I finally got my approval through anthem and my surgery is scheduled for Jan 30th!! Wooohoooooo!!! I am finally looking at good health. I start my liquid diet on Jan 16th. 2013 is going to be the best year yet. Yaaayyyyy!!!!

[lovealways 287]

Feel free to add to this list and edit it as dates come along. The following are confirmed surgery dates for January 2013....

thynnlynn – 1/4/13

preacherswife26 – 1/7/13

Frogjlr – 1/7/13

Teka2011 – 1/9/13

feelin-lika-cow – 1/14/13

Trailblazer57 – 1/14/13

Lovealways – 1/15/13

Libralisa – 1/18/13

Wdwfreak – 1/21/13

Jayla_mom_of2 – 1/21/13

Copmom – 1/22/13

Vbgirl264 – 1/22/13

How exciting!!!! 2013 is our year!!!!

[libra_lisa 136]

Feel free to add to this list and edit it as dates come along. The following are confirmed surgery dates for January 2013....

thynnlynn – 1/4/13

preacherswife26 – 1/7/13

Frogjlr – 1/7/13

Teka2011 – 1/9/13

feelin-lika-cow – 1/14/13

Trailblazer57 – 1/14/13

Lovealways – 1/15/13

Libralisa – 1/18/13

Wdwfreak – 1/21/13

Jayla_mom_of2 – 1/21/13

Copmom – 1/22/13

Vbgirl264 – 1/22/13

How exciting!!!! 2013 is our year!!!!

Yes it is!! Best wishes to you all!! I'm counting down the days!! )))

[Frogjlr 57]

Man I can't WAIT. The best of luck to everyone. Cheers to our healthy new lives. Waaahoooooo.12 more days

[copmom 73]

THANKS EVERYONE AND GOOD LUCK

I'm sooo excited to get the revision done... Mine is 1-22-2013

I will keep u all up to date as the date gets closer

Good bless ....

Goodbye Lapband hello RNY ......

Everyone have a Happy New Year....... I know I will....glory be to God.....

[mrspitts11367 17]

Feel free to add to this list and edit it as dates come along. The following are confirmed surgery dates for January 2013....

thynnlynn – 1/4/13

preacherswife26 – 1/7/13

Frogjlr – 1/7/13

Teka2011 – 1/9/13

feelin-lika-cow – 1/14/13

Trailblazer57 – 1/14/13

Lovealways – 1/15/13

Libralisa – 1/18/13

Wdwfreak – 1/21/13

Jayla_mom_of2 – 1/21/13

Copmom – 1/22/13

Vbgirl264 – 1/22/13

mrspitts11367-- 1/30/13

How exciting!!!! 2013 is our year!!!!

[Natasha K 27]

Hi, I am new here. Started my journey in August. Up until last week I was scheduled for the sleeve. Doc reevaluated my images from the scope and explained that I have some damage from reflux. He wants me to have bypass instead. My surgery is sched for Jan 3, Federal Way WA. I'm starting my liquid diet. I woke up feeling anxious this morning. Called the nut. office and sched a visit for 3 week post op. I think that will help! I love reading all the posts and how supportive everyone is! Also, just to double check RNY is for any gastric bypass surgery? Thx! ????

[ready2smile 138]

Hi, I am new here. Started my journey in August. Up until last week I was scheduled for the sleeve. Doc reevaluated my images from the scope and explained that I have some damage from reflux. He wants me to have bypass instead. My surgery is sched for Jan 3, Federal Way WA. I'm starting my liquid diet. I woke up feeling anxious this morning. Called the nut. office and sched a visit for 3 week post op. I think that will help! I love reading all the posts and how supportive everyone is! Also, just to double check RNY is for any gastric bypass surgery? Thx!

1st of all, welcome and congrats! I requested this change myself for the very same reason. I am currently waiting for the approval, surgery is scheduled for 1/10/13-hoping I get good news by then. As of today when I checked, the backup to the surgery coordinator could not find my file, OR any sign of submission of my paperwork. She returns tomorrow and 8am cannot come fast enough-I just may be at my doctors office tomorrow!

[thynnlynn 19]

I am simply devestated!!!!

We drove 3 hours to my pre-op testing and I went to the nutrition class and did all the x-rays only to find out that my thyroid test was too far off and they cancelled my 1/4 surgery!!! I have an old, blind, deaf dog who has been changing my sleep hours all around and I have missed some of my thyroid doses. They said the TSH was 73.96 and it has to be under 20.00 before they will reschedule me and I will have to do the entire PAT thing over again.

They suggested I call my PCP and see if I can have my already high dosage upped for a little and have it checked in a month and if it is under 20, they will reschedule me whevever. I am no longer a January date and have no idea how long it will take for it to build up in my system. The one nurse was thinking even up to 3 MONTHS!!!!!

This has really hit me hard as I was so very prepared for this and now it has to start all over again.

Have any of you run into this and have an idea when I can realistically got in for a sucessful blood draw for good TSH levels if I faithfully follow my med schedule? I do not want to waste a trip.

[ready2smile 138]

I am simply devestated!!!!

We drove 3 hours to my pre-op testing and I went to the nutrition class and did all the x-rays only to find out that my thyroid test was too far off and they cancelled my 1/4 surgery!!! I have an old' date=' blind, deaf dog who has been changing my sleep hours all around and I have missed some of my thyroid doses. They said the TSH was 73.96 and it has to be under 20.00 before they will reschedule me and I will have to do the entire PAT thing over again.

They suggested I call my PCP and see if I can have my already high dosage upped for a little and have it checked in a month and if it is under 20, they will reschedule me whevever. I am no longer a January date and have no idea how long it will take for it to build up in my system. The one nurse was thinking even up to 3 MONTHS!!!!!

This has really hit me hard as I was so very prepared for this and now it has to start all over again.

Have any of you run into this and have an idea when I can realistically got in for a sucessful blood draw for good TSH levels if I faithfully follow my med schedule? I do not want to waste a trip.[/quote']

I am so sorry, I know exactly how you feel. Mine was cancelled in may at my pre-op for insurance purposes. I also have thyroid problems, hypo, and would just suggest you immediately take your correct dose, call your pcp for a potential increased dosage and advice, and take it faithfully. I would ask for a blood test every 2 weeks because this is so important. Best of luck!

[thynnlynn 19]

I just talked to my PCP and he will not increase my dosage, however, his nurse said that if I faithfully take my Synthroid in the proper manner that it would more than likely resolve within a month, so I am going to wait the month and have it done and see where I am at. I was just shocked to see that it had gotten so bad, as I had labs done for the hip surgery that got cancelled in October and they were fine at the time I had the PAT for that.

I am just feeling like Eeyore and hoping that I can get this together and that they will have a cancellation date available for me. They did say they do get a lot of cancellations like mine, so, hopefully I can get it done within a couple of months. I also discovered I gained 12 pounds since my appointment and need to get those off!!!

[jmaromano 11]

Hi my name is Jane my surgery is January 9. Looking forward to the journey I have been on the liquid diet since December 19. Good luck with your surgery.

[ready2smile 138]

Glad you got some resolution Lynn. I hope time flies for you. I had a message from the surgery coordinator this am that I had been approved, and to call her if I had questions. I did of course-and as usual she didn't answer and I had to leave a message. Her backup from yesterday called a couple hours later to follow up and told me about my approval, I asked and she confirmed it was for the RNY, and I was able to keep my 1/10/2013 date. I even asked for it in writing. I'm going there today to get it, as well as have some paperwork I need for work completed. I want to be, but I won't get too excited until it's here. Ugh-this stuff stresses me out.

[thynnlynn 19]

Glad to hear you can keep your date. I discovered that not only was I not in compliance with my med taking, I was taking the wrong dose. This is going to soiund really stupid, but I am supposed to be on 250 mcgs of Synthroid daily and they do not make a 250, so I have been taking a 200 and a 50, or so I thought. I know I had a mixture of white and orange ones in the one bottle (as they raised it for a bit and it was too much) and thought the orange ones were the 50s, but they are the 25s. So, instead of taking the 250 mcgs, when I took them, I was only getting 225 mcgs. This sounds like a piddly amountm but between that and then not taking them as I should really made a difference. I am going to up it to 275 mcgs per day and have my blood retested in a month and hope it has come down enough to be put back on the schedule and hope for another cancellation so I do not have to wait so long.

It is not that I am in such a hurry to lose the weight, rather I have to wait till the band to RNY heals enough for me to have a revision on my hip replacement which is a big surgery with a long recovery time and I do not want it to interfere with my summer activities, which include a lot of walking.

Good luck to all of you that have January dates!!!!!! :wub: Wish I was still one of you!!

[Teka2011 73]

Hi my name is Jane my surgery is January 9. Looking forward to the journey I have been on the liquid diet since December 19. Good luck with your surgery.

Hi Jane! My Surgery is the 9th! Another surgery sister!! Yay =] I just started my liquid on Wednesday, how are you doing with it?