Is anyone doing plastic Surgery yet?

Well, I gave a plastic surgeon a try last summer, choosing someone from my insurance plan website. I didn't chose him because of any other reason and got turned down. This year, after finding some recommendations on this site and a match with another name on my insurance company website I decided to try again. He has experience with Lap band patients and I am very encouraged by what I read about him on this site. Wish me luck. From what this surgeon says it sounds like its pretty much a crapshoot getting insurance to pay and you just keep trying again each year!

Here's what I learned on my second plastic surgery try with Insurance. My insurance plan WANTS to pay the dermatologist for every single rash I have and for prescription medicine I am never going to use because the OTC powder works better. But whatever. I can afford the copay. Number two. I need to take charge of the photo process in the P Surgeon's office. Both of them took far too modest photos and did not show enough overhang. This was another reason for a rejection letter. Number three. I didn't lose enough weight with the Band. So if I want PS paid for I have to go on an old fashioned diet (!) and keep weight off long enough for it to register with some Dr for purposes of my quest. Wish me luck! Dawn

Finally I was able to have insurance pay for the hospital portion of my tt. We will see if they also pay the anesthesiologists and the surgeon. But I went ahead deciding that even if I had to pay for this myself i was getting this done. The results are great! Not picture perfect by any means but I really didn't care about that. I am now a consistent size in jeans from the thighs to the waist. I'm about a half to a full size smaller and am looking forward to buying more pants! I sorta wish I'd gone the whole hog and had the PS throw in a couple tripple E's but hey! I tease people that I'm going in for my "after" pic in a Slash tophat and chain around the waist with a pair of chaps--i wouldn't put it past me! By the way, when i asked the PS if he would pierce my new belly button he politely turned me down! grinnin from ear to ear, Dawn