Miss Shannon! Changing your avatar again!! Look at that hot missy in that pic!

We need to get together!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, VSG won out- I'll be going in May- the day after I finish my MBA This is my graduation present to me. Life is good.

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I understand exactly where you are at.  I was originally approved for surgery in 1999.  Yep, eight years ago.  There was a problem with the insurance and I wasn't able to have the surgery then. We were uninsured for several years after that due to self employment, and then when my DH finally got a job, it had the WLS surgery exclusion.  Unfortunately, when there is that exclusion, there's not a whole lot that can be done to fight it.  :-( I FINALLY got a job last year that had BCBS insurance and I was on top of getting the surgery. Is Medicare or Medicaid an option?

Have you tired to see if UHC will approve lap band?  There are very few risks and almost no long term complications.  Yes, you would lose wt slower, but I think it's safer in the long run.   That said, I have RNY almost 4 years ago.  I have nesidioblastosis (the beta cells of the pancreas produce way too much insulin), iron deficiency anemia, for which I get iron infusions every 6 wks or so, and osteoporosis.  If I knew then what I know now, I would never have had RNY.  I would have had lap band.   So now I have only 40% of my pancreas (60% removed in hopes of stopping the low blood sugar), no spleen since the pancreas and spleen share the same artery, I still have hypoglycemia, I have to have labs and infusions every 6 weeks.  I'm not happy about all this.