NEWBIES..... LETS STICK TOGETHER

[Crosby 303]

Hi I'm a newbie! I see my dr on 7/17 to start 6 month diet. Then 7/22 is Bariatic seminar. I hope the 6 months going by quickly! I have united health care.

I just started my 6 months last month and know how quickly it will fly by. I am glad I will have surgery in the Winter.

[soniaJ 49]

Hi Flygirl, I'm praying they do approve me and hopefully it's a quick approval. I did the 3 mo with my primary but then I did do 3 months with the surgeon because he required it. My only concern is that I went in to do my one on one with my nutritionist yesterday and I gained 4 lbs in 2 weeks. That was my first gain since I started in January. I was bummed but I knew I did bad. I just hope this doesn't effect my approval process. I don't like that the nutritionist and my surgeon and primary all weigh u on different scales so your weight fluctuates.

[Flygirl123 150]

Hey Crosby, boy do I hope your right. If I could've done the surgery yesterday I would've! Good luck to us all!

[Flygirl123 150]

Soniaj that crazy they weigh you on differant scales! Hopefully the insurance co takes that into consideration. If we could lose weight long term & not have set backs we wouldn't need surgery!

[Flygirl123 150]

Anyone who wants to add me as a friend feel free so! I'm new to this site :-)

[#9grammy 274]

Sonija, I'm also worried about the different scales. My surgeons scale is 6 pounds! different than the primary car doctor. That is a huge difference, then my scale is off 2 pounds with PCP. So I'm all over the scales on this ...

[soniaJ 49]

# 9 Grammy, I'm hoping that the insurance will take all of this into consideration, they have to realize that t he scaled would not match up. The difference for each place is 5 lbs. Which for me is a lot. I don't want the insurance to think every other week I either drop or gain. So frustrating ! UGH!

[soniaJ 49]

# 9 Grammy where are you in your journey? if you don't mind me asking.

[AmyCB 2]

Glad to see what others are going thru and have experienced!

I am new here and I just completed my 3 month check-in for my 7 month medically supervised diet. My last appt is the first week of November so I am hoping to be sleeved by the end of the year. I have BCBS of Alabama. I have already meet with a dietician and had my psych eval.

Edited July 9, 2014 by AmyCB

[soniaJ 49]

BCBS seems to be the best insurance to have. I'm hopeful UHC will bone through for me.

[Amyly2n 34]

I am a newbie too! I am planning on having surgery in late September or early October. Some days I feel like the 6 months of supervised weight loss are dragging by and some days I can't believe I'm already in my 5th month!

I realized about a week ago that I need to get everything else scheduled for the insurance approval so I feel so accomplished by having now scheduled all of my final appointments before everything gets submitted for insurance. My last supervised weight loss appointment should be September 2nd and everything else is scheduled to be completed 2 weeks before that so my coordinator has stated that she should be able to submit all of my paper work for insurance approval that day or the next day and then it is about a week of waiting for approval and then about 2 weeks for an open spot on the surgery calendar.

In the 6 months of supervised weight loss I have not lost that much (less than 10 pounds), so I am a little nervous about how insurance will view this. Will they view it as I've tried and failed AGAIN so they will approve me or because I haven't lost much on paper will they view it as I haven't tried at all and deny me? I have an insurance company called Viva Health and don't know many people with this that have had WLS, so the whole approval process is scary. My doctor's ofice deals with this insurance company all the time and assures me I am on the right track, so hopefully I will get approved!

I am currently trying to read and absorb all of the information I can about pre and post surgery nutrition so that I will be very sucessful long term!

[Flygirl123 150]

Hey AmyBC, congrats on completing 3 monts of your diet! Any words of wisdom for us just starting our diet?

[AmyCB 2]

Well It hasn't been much of a diet...LOL. The office said just don't gain any weight and if you could lose about 20 pounds it would really help prepare my body for surgery.

This is part of BCBS requirement for my surgery. But my husband works for GE Healthcare so the plan seems to be different than others. There are only 2 hospitals in the whole state of Texas they will approve the surgery at... amazingly they are right down the road.

I'm sorry I don't have much help to give. I am struggling myself.

[#9grammy 274]

Soniaj, I will have my 3 rd apt with PCP on July 16. Then 3 more months. I still have a cardio apt in Aug. I hope to be finished mid Sept then turn in all records and get approved! I don't know how Medicare is with surgery but my bariatric coordinator seems to be sure they will approve. I will see surgeon one last time too b 4 surgery I guess. So that's where I stand, oh and nobody knows but my fiancé , just haven't found a good time to tell my daughter. She may not like this, but it's my choice to get healthy!

[Flygirl123 150]

AmyCB thanks for sharing your experience! Sounds like we all are trying to figure this diet requirement out.

Hi AmyLy2n!