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Hello - I've been lurking around these boards for ages. I've been fighting for Lapband surgery since the beginning of 2008 and now I'm finally scheduled!!

April 16th is the day! I'm very excited...but nervous. I have a lot of weight to lose but I have a great at home support system to lean on.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll be posting a lot more now that I actually have a date and my journey is officially starting.

I look forward to getting to know everyone.

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We have the dame date for surgery! Good luck to you. I started this process in January and I am so happy to finally be scheduled, but I am a little nervous too. I go for my preop appt. on Mar. 31st. It's moving along pretty fast now that there is an actual date!:smile:

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Hello - I've been lurking around these boards for ages. I've been fighting for Lapband surgery since the beginning of 2008 and now I'm finally scheduled!!

April 16th is the day! I'm very excited...but nervous. I have a lot of weight to lose but I have a great at home support system to lean on.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll be posting a lot more now that I actually have a date and my journey is officially starting.

I look forward to getting to know everyone.

Hey there, Lurker!! How exciting for you to get your date!!!! Why did you have to fight for it? My day is April 6 (hopefully, I had a test come back bad so I have to retake it on the 3rd, if it comes back bad again, my doc won't do the surgery!! ) But anyway be sure and check out the Bunny Bandsters thread, it is a place for eveyone who is going to BA banded in April to get together and meet and share our thoughts. It's a great place!!!! :smile:

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Hey there, Lurker!! How exciting for you to get your date!!!! Why did you have to fight for it? My day is April 6 (hopefully, I had a test come back bad so I have to retake it on the 3rd, if it comes back bad again, my doc won't do the surgery!! ) But anyway be sure and check out the Bunny Bandsters thread, it is a place for eveyone who is going to BA banded in April to get together and meet and share our thoughts. It's a great place!!!! :smile:

Thank you all for the warm hello's! :thumbup:

My doctor was against the surgery, she thought I was capable of losing all this weight without any help. I've been trying to lose weight for 20 years! I finally convinced her I needed her help to be approved. Then, I had a 6 month diet to finish. It was totally worth all the crap I went through to get here, having my date makes it all real!

I'll head over to the Bunny Bandsters area (what a cute name!).

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I'm happy for you, everything is going to be GREAT. I was band 12/08 and it's been great. I lost 51 pounds thus far. I have not been in any pain. I got energy out of this world. My back and feet don't hurt any more. God bless looking for to hearing from you.

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Thank you all for the warm hello's! :thumbup:

My doctor was against the surgery, she thought I was capable of losing all this weight without any help. I've been trying to lose weight for 20 years! I finally convinced her I needed her help to be approved. Then, I had a 6 month diet to finish. It was totally worth all the crap I went through to get here, having my date makes it all real!

I'll head over to the Bunny Bandsters area (what a cute name!).

Good luck to you! What is the 6mth diet for? What does it tell them? If you loose weight will they say - Oh you can do it yourself? I don't understand why they do that. I know pre-op why they do but ?? It will be a couple yrs for me in Ontario so I will likely go with self pay in awhile and get a loan to pay over 5 yrs or so. Worth it to me. I want a life back now not in 2 or 3 yrs. Keep us posted :smile:

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My insurance carrier required it, not sure the reason behind it. I lost like 5 lbs. during the 6 months and I think I gained back 7, LOL. To be honest, I didn't put that much effort into the 6 month thing. I mean seriously, I'm 35 years old...do they have any CLUE how many diets I've been on??? This isn't my first rodeo!!!! :)

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