Pre-op dieting....

[deanma 16]

Hello all. I have to do a three month diet prior to surgery. I have not been very successful. are they going to refuse me if i am not able to lose a certain amt of weight?

[alwaysvegas 702]

Depends on your insurance. Some insurance companies will deny you if you gain weight and some doctors require a certain percentage of weight loss. You'll have to read your insurance requirements.

Edited September 7, 2014 by AlwaysVegas

[angierue 214]

It could also depend on your surgeon. I don't have an insurance requirement but my doctor is having lose 10% of my initial weigh-in weight (38lbs). He didn't give me a time frame to do it in but he won't schedule the surgery until I do that plus the other required stuff like the psych eval and sleep study (only thing left to schedule). Everything else is done or on the books.

I've been doing the pre-op diet and am down just shy of 11lbs on my scale at home as of this morning. I'm going balls to the wall because if I can't get there in time to have the surgery by the first week of November, I'll have to wait until January.

I work for a major cell phone carrier and can't take the time off after mid-November because of the holidays.