What else now?

The surguons office called me a week or two ago telling me that my insuarnce requires a 2 year weight history and a 6 month diet program. I had the 2 year history but only have 3 months of documented weigh****chers stuff and I have 7 months of log ins from myfitnesspla.com They told me that they are hoping that would be enough. She also told me that she is also thinking that they will count the 3 visits I had with the NUT as part of the diet program. Now I am super scared that they will deny it!!

And now some of my family and friends who were supportive in the beggining are not being so supportive. They keep telling me "its such a big risk, blah blah blah" I already know all that and just shake my head ok. I am doing this for me and not for them! It just annoys me that they aren't more supportive. I have something called intracranial hypertension or psuedotumor cerebri, and the neuro thinks that having weight loss surgery will make it go into remission. If it doesn't I will have to get a shunt in my brain. My father went and told his doctor all this and his doctor pretty much told him that I shouldn't have weight loss surgery and that it will not do anything for my condition.

Sorry for the rant, just stressed today!

I was missing some stuff but we substituted other information and the insurance company took it.  I hadn't let the doctor weigh me in probably 5 years so I had no weights to give them.  They took pictures of me from different times in the past as evidence.  Insurance companies aren't always unreasonable.  

Don't listen to the negative people.  You know that what you are doing is right for you.  Your dad's doctor doesn't even know you.  How could he pass judgement?  That's being unprofessional.  

Hope you're feeling better about things soon and that insurance calls you with the OK. 

Hi Kim,

I'm so very sorry that you are struggling right now. What the insurance companies will accept seems to vary somewhat from one company to another and though it is distressing to hit this bump in the road, it definitely is manageable. Generally speaking the insurance companies often accept appointments with an RD as part of a documented dietary program because they are medical professionals, but it can vary. If they don't accept it, you can find out what they do need and make that happen. Hang in there.

Re: the nay-sayers. Only you can know if this is something that you want to do and if you think it will be a good thing for you. I hope and pray that it does relieve and help manage the intercranial pressure issues that you are having, but it is also likely to also help you manage so many other issues. Generally, when our friends and family make critical comments it is coming from a place of fear and ignorance. I had similar issues with my my mother and sister. One of the ways that I handled it was to allow my mother to come with me to ask any questions she wanted of my healthcare team. It went a long way towards helping her to know more and be more supportive. I don't know if that might help your cir****tance or not. While Drs in general are very knowledgeable, they too can have their own bias' about many issues including WLS; it is very possible that your father's Dr was his own personal bias to influence what he had to say to your father. 

Please feel free to reach out if you need/want any additional support and remember that you are welcome to attend any of the support group meetings that I host.

See you again soon,