Couple of Questions

dillmn · April 3, 2007

If a person has a BMI of 33.2 with no other serious health concerns (for example heart disease of diabetes) are they still eligable to get the Lap Band? If so, would the surgery be financeable through your lending companies?

TracyinKS · April 3, 2007

Depends on your doctor. IN countries other than the US where the surgery has been done for 13 years. They often band, lower BMI patients. Go check out the Lower BMI thread and ask some of the great people on there about it.

dillmn · April 3, 2007

Thank you for your help.

Alexandra · April 3, 2007

As others have said, you'd probably not be able to get band surgery here in the States with such a low BMI. There are other options.

As for financing, if your credit is decent you should be able to get a personal loan for whatever purpose you want. You don't have to tell the lender what a personal loan is for if you don't want to.

dillmn · April 3, 2007

Would you be able to send me a link or give me the info on the place where you got yours. Maybe, if you want tell me a little about the process you went through. Thank you :-D

Lisa99 · April 4, 2007

My BMI was 32 and my doctor is in Dallas. I was self-pay. My doc's opinion was that the 35 BMI floor is an arbitrary limit and that if he felt surgery would help, he would do it.

I had surgery last September and have never regretted it.

Good luck!