Plastic surgery
I just got a phone call that after three months of waiting, my insurance company has approved my panniculectomy. I'm over the moon happy but torn as to when to have this done. I just met my deductible for the year with an ER visit last month. So if I do it this year it will save me $3k. But, the recovery time for what I'm looking at is 6 weeks, which is really hard to do now, but really that is hard to schedule any time. I'll talk with my husband tonight, but I needed to share the news with someone!
Congratulations!! That's awesome. Are you going to pay the difference for the whole lower body lift? Or just stick with the panni?
VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
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Super awesome :D
VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
TrendWeight | Food Blog (sort of functional) | Journal (down for maintenance)
Do it while you have the deductible covered. And get it done by a good doc. You are worth it!
"...This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. What he was doing..."
Rachel, PMHNP-BC
HW-271 SW-260 LW(2009)-144 ~ Retread: HW-241 CW-190 GW-150
Congrats! You might want to ask your surgeon how much to have the tummy tuck part added on and muscles tightened. It was an extra $2,000 but holy heck did it make a huge difference!! It is never a great time to take 6 weeks to recover IMHO. Schedule it now, use the relative savings to cover the TT. :)
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1Mo: -21 2Mo: -16 3Mo: -12 4MO - 13 5MO: -11 6MO: -10 7MO: -10.3 8MO: -6 Goal in 8 months 4 days!! 6' 2'' EWL 103% Starting size 28 or 4x (tight) now size 12 or large, shoe size 12 w to 10.5 150+ pounds lost
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Congratulations!!! I know my insurance will never pay for it, as I had to go through 10,000 hoops to just get the VSG covered and they nickel and dime me on everything else... So.. Enjoy, I hope it goes wonderfully for you! :) 
HW: 299 SW: 277.2 VSG: 10-26-2015 Dr. Brian Gluck
Dr Goal Weight : 182.5 Hit Dr Goal 7-23-16
New Goal Weight: 170
