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Topic: RE: Are there any GBP doctors in Upstate NY that take Fidelis-Medicaid??
You will not get any medical insurance to pay for a MGB - that is a cash only procedure!
3/30/2005 Lap Band installed 12/20/2010 Lap Band REMOVED
6/6/2011 Vertical SLEEVE Gastrectomy
Topic: RE: Mini Gastric Bypass?
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It's actually quite different. Please go to http://clos.net and check it out.
Clueless about weight loss and weight loss surgery of any kind.
Topic: RE: Mini Gastric Bypass?
It does not sound much different than a RNY . What is mini about it?
Topic: ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card
Dear OH members,
ObesityHelp is happy to announce our new ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card. In coordination with NeedyMeds, ObesityHelp is offering this card to our members at no charge.
This ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card offers you another way to save on various prescription costs. You can save up to 80% off the price of certain prescription medications. Members can use the card if not covered by insurance or by members that decide not to use their insurance. For instance, if a prescription medication is not covered under your insurance plan, the co-payment or deductible is high, if the maximum benefit has been exceeded, or if they are in the donut hole, members can utilize this card. The drug discount card is not an insurance plan, but provides patients with discounted rates on prescriptions. When this card is presented with a valid prescription to a pharmacist, a 0-80% discount may be provided. However, you may ask the pharmacist to process the discount card through the pharmacy system, as well as your insurance card, then choose whichever offers the best savings. The discount card often provides better discounts than many insurance plans.
The ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card is accepted at over 61,000 participating pharmacies (within the U.S. and territories) and includes large chains stores such as Walgreens, CVS and Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid and other regional chains and local stores. Additionally, the ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card can be used for over-the-counter medications and medical supplies if they are written on a prescription along with pet prescription medications purchased at a pharmacy. Your card can be shared with friends and family members, and you are invited to print a card for their use too. The card is active now and has no expiration date. When the ObesityHelp Drug DiscountCard is used, OH will receive a minimal amount to assist us as we make the journey with our members to fight obesity. If your pharmacist is not familiar with the drugdiscount card, they can call Argus Health Systems at 866-921-7284. The phone number is found on back of the card.
What If I Have Insurance?
ObesityHelp is happy to announce our new ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card. In coordination with NeedyMeds, ObesityHelp is offering this card to our members at no charge.
This ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card offers you another way to save on various prescription costs. You can save up to 80% off the price of certain prescription medications. Members can use the card if not covered by insurance or by members that decide not to use their insurance. For instance, if a prescription medication is not covered under your insurance plan, the co-payment or deductible is high, if the maximum benefit has been exceeded, or if they are in the donut hole, members can utilize this card. The drug discount card is not an insurance plan, but provides patients with discounted rates on prescriptions. When this card is presented with a valid prescription to a pharmacist, a 0-80% discount may be provided. However, you may ask the pharmacist to process the discount card through the pharmacy system, as well as your insurance card, then choose whichever offers the best savings. The discount card often provides better discounts than many insurance plans.
The ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card is accepted at over 61,000 participating pharmacies (within the U.S. and territories) and includes large chains stores such as Walgreens, CVS and Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid and other regional chains and local stores. Additionally, the ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card can be used for over-the-counter medications and medical supplies if they are written on a prescription along with pet prescription medications purchased at a pharmacy. Your card can be shared with friends and family members, and you are invited to print a card for their use too. The card is active now and has no expiration date. When the ObesityHelp Drug DiscountCard is used, OH will receive a minimal amount to assist us as we make the journey with our members to fight obesity. If your pharmacist is not familiar with the drugdiscount card, they can call Argus Health Systems at 866-921-7284. The phone number is found on back of the card.
What If I Have Insurance?
Anyone can use the ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card card but it cannot be combined with insurance. You can use it instead of insurance if:
- The insurance has no drug coverage
- There is a high drug deductible
- There is a low medicine cap that has been met
- There is a high copay and the card offers a better price
- You are in the Medicare Part D donut hole
The card cannot be used to lower a co-payment.
A Few Things You Should Know
- This card is not an insurance program-it's a discount card.
- There may be no savings for certain drugs, including many inexpensive generics.
Here's how it works:
- Download your ObesityHelp Drug Discount card HERE and print the page.
- Cut out the card.
- Give the card to the pharmacist along with your prescription.
- The pharmacist will tell you how much you can save using our drug discount card.
ObesityHelp appreciates our members!! Look for more exciting things to come for OH members!
Sincerely,
Member Services
Topic: RE: MGB Rules and Regain (Question for a friend)
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Hi,
Your advice is fine. Sometimes we have to look back and figure out what changed. Did we change what we eat, stop exercising, or was there a situation that caused us to fall off track. For many folks, these things do happen. Is she going to support groups? Something triggered a change and she needs to figure out what that was and then, get plugged into support groups, journal her food to see if she has indeed taken on some bad eating habits. Change her exercise routine to something else she enjoys. Stress is a huge factor in weight gain. Eating too many carbs can also trigger weight gain. Carbs act like sugar in the body and burns fast but if too many are introduced into the body, the body is so busy burning all that off, the fat never gets burned off.
She is lucky to have a friend like you. The tool is still there and works very well. Bring her onboard here if she has a computer. I have a virtual support group she can join as well. It is Victorious Losers2.
Your advice is fine. Sometimes we have to look back and figure out what changed. Did we change what we eat, stop exercising, or was there a situation that caused us to fall off track. For many folks, these things do happen. Is she going to support groups? Something triggered a change and she needs to figure out what that was and then, get plugged into support groups, journal her food to see if she has indeed taken on some bad eating habits. Change her exercise routine to something else she enjoys. Stress is a huge factor in weight gain. Eating too many carbs can also trigger weight gain. Carbs act like sugar in the body and burns fast but if too many are introduced into the body, the body is so busy burning all that off, the fat never gets burned off.
She is lucky to have a friend like you. The tool is still there and works very well. Bring her onboard here if she has a computer. I have a virtual support group she can join as well. It is Victorious Losers2.
Clueless about weight loss and weight loss surgery of any kind.
Topic: MGB Rules and Regain (Question for a friend)
Hi all:
My friend had the MGB 4 years ago.
She lost weight and got down to 130 pounds... but now is flirting with 150.
We help each other out here and there... but I had RNY, not MGB.
When I give her advice, I stick with my RNY tried and trues... protien, vitamins, water.... is there anything else a MGB patient needs to keep very aware of?
I am encouraging her to make an account and get involved herself... we shall see.
Thanks very much!!!
My friend had the MGB 4 years ago.
She lost weight and got down to 130 pounds... but now is flirting with 150.
We help each other out here and there... but I had RNY, not MGB.
When I give her advice, I stick with my RNY tried and trues... protien, vitamins, water.... is there anything else a MGB patient needs to keep very aware of?
I am encouraging her to make an account and get involved herself... we shall see.
Thanks very much!!!
Mary SW 273 CW 158 GW 160
Topic: SWAPKINS March 3, 10:30a - 2:30p Burnsville, MN
Hi all,
I've scheduled another SWAPKINS
March 3, 2012
10:30a - 2:30p.
Mary, Mother of the Church (look for this sign)
Room: The Mary Center (on the lower level)
3333 Cliff Road
Burnsville, MN
There is excellent parking, building access, and there will be carts available to bring in your swap-ables and take your goodies home. Tell everyone you know! Forward this email! The event just gets better with every person who comes.
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Do you have clothes that haunt your closet - the clothes that don't fit quite right? Or maybe they do fit, but you don't feel great when you wear them because they aren't your style, or you just don't need them? Would you really like something new to wear? Maybe you've changed jobs or gained/lost some weight and you need some clothes, but you don't want to spend a lot to get something new?
COME TO SWAPKINS! We will have tables and clothes racks loaded with clean clothes in good condition. Clean out your closets and bring clothes to share. Check out what we've got and take home what you like. NO MONEY IS EXCHANGED. We will have men's, women's and children's clothes - everything from casual clothes to dressy. Also outerwear and accessories. The mix is different everytime, but it's always good stuff!
It's hard to explain how much fun it can be to bag up and get rid of clothes. No garage sale tagging! No bargaining with a consignment shop. Just bring them and *poof* they're gone and you KNOW they've gone to a good place.
It's hard to explain how much fun it is to walk into a great big room full of clothes and pick up anything you like and take it home, AND IT'S FREE.
We need bringers (who will bring things to share) and takers (to 'shop' the shared stuff). You can be one, the other, or both! It is not required that you bring anything to the event to take anything away. Everything at the event is free.
Email with questions. See you there!
Jen
P.S. If this note was forwarded to you and you'd like to be added the the email list, send a note directly to [email protected] with your name and email address.
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SWAPKINS is a community event that began in 2006. Participants bring clean, clothes in good condition. The clothes brought in are placed on tables marked with sizes. Then attendees “shop" the tables of clothes with sizes that they can use. All remaining clothes are donated to charity. No money is exchanged.
This event is typically scheduled every 3 to 6 months. Most participants are from the Twin Cities area, but some do come from outstate Minnesota and Wisconsin .
Room: The Mary Center (on the lower level)
3333 Cliff Road
Burnsville, MN
There is excellent parking, building access, and there will be carts available to bring in your swap-ables and take your goodies home. Tell everyone you know! Forward this email! The event just gets better with every person who comes.
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Do you have clothes that haunt your closet - the clothes that don't fit quite right? Or maybe they do fit, but you don't feel great when you wear them because they aren't your style, or you just don't need them? Would you really like something new to wear? Maybe you've changed jobs or gained/lost some weight and you need some clothes, but you don't want to spend a lot to get something new?
COME TO SWAPKINS! We will have tables and clothes racks loaded with clean clothes in good condition. Clean out your closets and bring clothes to share. Check out what we've got and take home what you like. NO MONEY IS EXCHANGED. We will have men's, women's and children's clothes - everything from casual clothes to dressy. Also outerwear and accessories. The mix is different everytime, but it's always good stuff!
It's hard to explain how much fun it can be to bag up and get rid of clothes. No garage sale tagging! No bargaining with a consignment shop. Just bring them and *poof* they're gone and you KNOW they've gone to a good place.
It's hard to explain how much fun it is to walk into a great big room full of clothes and pick up anything you like and take it home, AND IT'S FREE.
We need bringers (who will bring things to share) and takers (to 'shop' the shared stuff). You can be one, the other, or both! It is not required that you bring anything to the event to take anything away. Everything at the event is free.
Email with questions. See you there!
Jen
P.S. If this note was forwarded to you and you'd like to be added the the email list, send a note directly to [email protected] with your name and email address.
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SWAPKINS is a community event that began in 2006. Participants bring clean, clothes in good condition. The clothes brought in are placed on tables marked with sizes. Then attendees “shop" the tables of clothes with sizes that they can use. All remaining clothes are donated to charity. No money is exchanged.
This event is typically scheduled every 3 to 6 months. Most participants are from the Twin Cities area, but some do come from outstate Minnesota and Wisconsin .
Topic: OH Rox Round Rock will be in SOUTH AUSTIN TOMORROW! (2/18)
OH Rox Round Rock Group will be in South Austin!
We are trying something new by alternating between Round Rock and South Austin for our meetings.
Tomorrow's (2/18/12) meeting will be at Central Market at Westgate at 10:30am - noon. Here is the address: 4477 S. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78745 http://www.centralmarket.com/Stores/Austin-Westgate.aspx/
This months meeting is going to be centered on Staying on Track. Please bring a pen and paper for notes. We also encourage you to bring before and after pictures if you would like.
You and any others you may know of in search of a weight loss support group are invited! Our group is not limited to one certain weight loss surgery, it is open to pre-ops, post-ops, those thinking of weight loss surgery, and those who just in general need some type of accountability.
Our goal is to provide a support group that is positive and motivational. Also to create a strong foundation within this area to lend support to those in need.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
We are trying something new by alternating between Round Rock and South Austin for our meetings.
Tomorrow's (2/18/12) meeting will be at Central Market at Westgate at 10:30am - noon. Here is the address: 4477 S. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78745 http://www.centralmarket.com/Stores/Austin-Westgate.aspx/
This months meeting is going to be centered on Staying on Track. Please bring a pen and paper for notes. We also encourage you to bring before and after pictures if you would like.You and any others you may know of in search of a weight loss support group are invited! Our group is not limited to one certain weight loss surgery, it is open to pre-ops, post-ops, those thinking of weight loss surgery, and those who just in general need some type of accountability.
Our goal is to provide a support group that is positive and motivational. Also to create a strong foundation within this area to lend support to those in need.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
Topic: Petition to have skin removal surgery covered by our provincial medical care plan.
Hi, I am from Newfoundland Canada and had WLS in October 2011. This surgery is new to our province and currently surgery to cover excess skin removal is not covered. Please take a moment to sign this online petition to have skin removal surgery covered by our provincial medical care plan.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/mcp-coverage-for-the-remova l-of-excess-skin-following-extreme-weight-loss/
Hi, I am from Newfoundland Canada and had WLS in October 2011. This surgery is new to our province and currently surgery to cover excess skin removal is not covered. Please take a moment to sign this online petition to have skin removal surgery covered by our provincial medical care plan.
MCP Coverage For the Removal of Excess Skin Following Extreme Weight Loss
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/mcp-coverage-for-the-remova l-of-excess-skin-following-extreme-weight-loss/ Tina
Surgery: VSG with Dr. David Pace
Surgery Date : October 17, 2011. HW: 280 SW: 252 CW: 235 GW: 140
Surgery: VSG with Dr. David Pace
Surgery Date : October 17, 2011. HW: 280 SW: 252 CW: 235 GW: 140
Topic: RE: Removing Band & Getting MGB!
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Hi,
I think you have to go to your profile and change it there. Sorry the band failed but happy you decided on the MGB. Keep us posted on how it goes.
I think you have to go to your profile and change it there. Sorry the band failed but happy you decided on the MGB. Keep us posted on how it goes.
Clueless about weight loss and weight loss surgery of any kind.
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