UHC covers WLS. The real question is if your employer has bought the rider that covers WLS for its employees. If the county didn't buy the rider, the insurance company won't pay for WLS.

ok - i have 30 days till revision surgery scheduled; sleeve 2011 to rny for gerd mainly love to lose some too. we cleaned house last night and got rid of the white carbohydrates. my hubbie is doing this with me. its 5 pm and we have taken two naps today already. we are zonked. weaning off of cafeine - only one coffee today. no soda - usually have 1 every couple days to get me thru the munchie time periods (3pm) or when would want a caffeine beverage. i have not been mandated to do the pre op diet to lose any certain number of pounds. i want to get my behaviors more in line for post surgery. i want this to be successful not only for my gerd but to get my butt back in gear again. just writing because reading this site really helps me a lot and i needed to get it out there. is anyone else doing a revision early oct /sept? blessings to everyone here - seriously the support that is shown on this site really makes me feel good and in a way happy that there kind souls still in our nutty world. thank you

Last week I had my revision from sleeve to RNY. I'm super surprised I can take a large sip of water. I remember in 2012, after surgery I couldn't sip hardly any. Has anyone else experienced this?

I posted most of this on the RNY forum but wanted to add a note here as well, since I ended up getting a revision. Last week I woke in the most horrid pain in my stomach but I am 'tough' and I am NOT going to go the ER in the middle of the night. Right. So I did walk around for a solid hour with my phone in my hand in case I started to pass out (I wasn't thinking really clearly) and didn't want to call a friend at 3 in the morning. Gave up and made myself call 911, who told me to be sure the door was open and to sit down somewhere. They came in quite quickly, checked my heart thoroughly even though it was stomach pain because it was radiating so severely. Off I go in the ambulance to the ER where I met the surgeon who assessed me, then waited in the ER for 11 hours before the surgeon could operate. They did put me on an iv and gave me pain killers.

Surgeon (God bless him) told me that when he went in laparoscopically, he'd find one of two situations: 1) he'd see what was going on, clean it up, do a revision and I'd recover...or 2) he'd see a big mess, have to open me up, clean up what he could and put me on massive antibiotics, close off my pouch and put a feeding tube into my remnant stomach; then in a month or two, go back and reverse all that and THEN do a revision. God blessed me and we went with Door Number One and I am thankful as can be I didn't go the other way. This was all due to perforated ulcers that I did NOT know that I had...no symptoms at all.

I meet with him on this coming Wednesday for a follow-up to find out exactly what was done. I can draw a diagram of an RNY in my sleep but I can't really say I'm clear on exactly how the revision was done...I know he excised my old pouch and some part of my intestine, as the crisis was perforated ulcers. He kept asking if I'd used NSAIDS but that is something I've never done, not once since my original RNY. But I have been under an unusual and horrid amount of stress, way beyond the norm so perhaps that had some bearing. I'll learn more when I see him.

I live alone, am retired, and have awful obamacare coverage, so I can't imagine what my life will be like from here on in. Ambulance with all the heart stuff they did, ER for 11 hours, surgeon, anesthesiologist, assistants, pain meds, and four nights in the hospital....shudder.

When I checked out no one had been by to give my my clothes, so I got sent home in a hospital gown. I was just thankful they added pajama bottoms, LOL. Took several days to get clear of the drugs, but my last pain med was the morning of my checkout - have had only a couple of Tylenols since then, so that's good!

I have been perusing the Revision Forum but haven't found much info on RNY to RNY - anyone have something like this, I'm sure I'm not unique! Just wonder how this works for a revision. I have restriction again, but does any metabolic benefit happen on a revised RNY? Anyway, I am babying my new baby tummy and recovering very well! :)

I also am having the revision to bypass. I am 6 years out and any hormonal benefit from the sleeve is gone. My surgeon told me I will not lose a lot of weight as the part of the stomach and all that hormonal stuff already happened with the sleeve. I know someone who had the revision for GERD and lost 20 pounds and that was because initially we will be on liquid and then soft food etc. Great results her GERD is completely gone. No medication at all and she had precancerous cells in her esophagus.

Slow down and breath. The most important thing is that you will be relieved from the GERD and everything else will work itself out. This is from someone who has to remember to breathe all day long. Wishing all all the best.