Dropping below 40 BMI before surgery

[almitch 1]

To put it simply, I barely qualified for the surgery before I began the pre op appointments and have been following a diet via "my fitness pal" as recommended by the dietian. It's been very effective and I'm loosing weight.

If I drop below the qualifying BMI will I no longer be considered a candidate for surgery?

[smiley922 447]

do you have any co-morbitities, diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, etc. Most insurance says 35 BMI with a co-morbidity. I have all three and am close to 35 BMI right now, can't lose more than 6 pounds, so trying to maintain now, I have lost a total of 45 since the start of the process, and only have to do the liquid diet 1 week instead of his normal 2 weeks since I can't lose much more weight. One plus there!

[sunflowerchild 146]

It depends which weight the doc office submits to your insurance company. For me, I was weighed 1

month out at my 2nd nutrition appointment and that was the weight they submitted.

[Bingcherry 18]

I was in your shoes as well a few months ago. My BMI was right at 35 but I have high blood pressure so I qualified. In my case, the weight that determined if I qualified was my weigh in at my surgical consultation. It didn't matter how much weight I lost after that.

Good luck.

[almitch 1]

Hi folks,

Thanks for the feed back.

No co-morbidities other than slightly raised BP. They told me that a BMI of 40 is the standard, at least for me. So I guess I'll have to wait my next appointment.

[vdubtastic 0]

I have the same worry but I think your damned if you do damned if you don't - just going to have to wait and see what the outcome is and keep my fingers crossed - hope all goes well for you