Hello another newbie here

Hello,

Im new to the group and wanted to say hello.  I have a bmi of 38.9 and have type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, osteoporois.

Im going to my first WLS seminar this week Tue and hoping to have DS or RNY surgery to help me lose weight, get healthy and get my diabetes in remission.  I say remission cause as im sure you all know you can't CURE diabetes.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask

Thank you

Welcome and good luck. BTW, I had diabetis 2 which has disappeared since WLS.

Amalia

Hi there,

     Welcome to the group. Thanks for posting. It's nice to meet you. The people on this site are amazing. Informative, supportive, and really nice people. 

   Keep posting so we can get to know you and visa-versa. It's wonderful that you are starting your eight loss journey.

   Take care    Mag   

Welcome to the group Tony.  Great to have more men joining us. 

I too deal with type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea with a cpap machine and arthritis.  I had RNY in sept of 2009.  Since surgery, I have gotten off insulin, reduced my cpap presure by half of what it was.  My arthritis is much better and I am active.

DS was not an option for me at the time I had surgery, I have friends that have had DS and love it.  I am happy with my RNY, down over 100# from my highest weight.  Learn what you can, ask many, many questions and discuss your options with your surgeon.  Plan what is best for you with your team.

I will do that.  I hope that I won't need a Cpap at all after my weight is down, but I do know people that aren't overweight at all that have sleep apnea so I guess once I get my weight down and have another sleep study done I will find out.

I am not on insulin YET, and hope to get off the pills and get things in order that way too.

So far its been one big educational process thats for sure.  Being im a lightweight I hope the Dr is willing to look at the DS for me.

Tonight is my first seminar and I will schedule whats next after this.

I did find out good news and thats my insurance does not require prior authorization, just have to meet the requirements which at least will eliminate that frustration.

Thank you

Yayyy on the ease of your insurance.  Now to find out what your surgeon requires before.  I am glad that insurances are willing to do surgery to prevent the super morbid obesity.  I anticipate you flying through the process to get to surgery.

Well from here they say internist, behaviorist then surgeon. I already have some labs done and nurse said can be as quick as 6 weeks to 3 months depending on my flexibility. So we shall see