Denied!!!

[christa94 0]

i agree. if you feel you NEED this, go to mexico. i had a bmi of 35 and 0 comorbidities, but i just couldn't lose weight no matter what i did and was going nuts and having to fight really hard thoughts of going back to ways that have ensured weight loss in the past, like bingeing and purging and starving myself which allowed me to lose 150 in 9 months (and almost be dead). you would think almost dying and having no functional life would be motivation enough not to go back to that old life, but trying plan after plan, eating right, exercise, drinking tons of Water, not eating after a certain hour, diet pills, shakes and the like with NO success made me say, i am going to get the band. i have no insurance, but i had to get it done. i felt like i was going to seriously lose it if i didn't do something drastic fast. i hated how my body looked. i didn't want my then fiance/now husband to touch me and i was no longer confident about myself, which is a major no-no because diminished self esteem just leads to a slippery slope that i have traveled once before. so, i convinced my fiance to co-sign on a medical loan with me. we were approved and in mexico 3 weeks later. it could have been sooner except my schedule in june was jammed packed. my scheduled freed up on june 27th and i was on a plan to mexico on the 28th and i was banded later on that night. that was 4 1/2 months ago and 33 pounds ago.

[MS_mom_1965 0]

mkcarpen, did you have the 5 year history of obesity?

My insurance is changing to UHC in January. I would really like to have the surgery, but I haven't been over 40 BMI for five years, and probably haven't been over 35 that long either.