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06-22-2006, 06:14 PM
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| Newbie |  Hello, Everyone! My name is Shunda Renee and I am form Dallas, Texas (Better Luck Next Year, Mavs!) I am 5'3" and weighing at 390 lbs. I have tried to lose weight with LA Weight Loss, Apple Cider Vinegar, Xenodyne, Metabolife, Metabolift, Dexatrim, (you do get the point, I trust?). I have looked into WLS, went to the seminar in Dallas, and decided on RNYGB as the best course of action for me to take at this point. The problem is I don't think that my health insurance will ocver it. It costs $35,000.00! (yikes!) I was wondering of you good people know where I can find financing. I could save up for it, but I only make $15,000.00 annually, so that would be out of the question, I assume. Did anyone have trouble financing? Did anyone succeed in such? Was it difficult? What is the process? How long did it take? Also, I wouls like to know what kind of diet would be feasable (sp?) for the surgery, because I have talked to doctors here and they told me that it would reduce the risks greatly if I was to lose some weight before I had the surgery, but never did they tell me what kind of diet. Any and all comments are more than welcomed here and I would like to thank each and every one of you for your replies. To all who are on the "losing" side...CONGRATS! God Bless You All in the name of Jesus Christ! 
__________________ Shunda Renee a*k*a "KATSUYA" "I'm gonna stare fat in its ugly face...AND KICK ITS  !" |
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06-22-2006, 07:03 PM
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| Guru In Training Join Date: May 2006 Location: In the country
Posts: 336
Weight Statistics August 2006 Surgery Date:
Height: 210 lb Start Weight:
141 lb Current Weight:
125 lb Goal Weight:
69 lb Weight Loss:
16 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.8571428571 % % Lost:
August 2007 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 38 BMI Start:
25 BMI Current:
22 BMI Goal:
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Welcome, Shunda! You will love it here. I'm still pre-op and waiting on insurance approval, which I'm hoping will be soon since it's a covered benefit. Sorry, I can't give you any tips, but I'm sure there are others on this board who can. They are a very smart bunch, alot of who had to fight with their insurance to get it covered.
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06-22-2006, 09:45 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SOMEPLACE LONG ISLAND, NY
Posts: 6,756
Weight Statistics June 1, 2005 Start Date:
Height: 310 lb Start Weight:
167 lb Current Weight:
159 lb Goal Weight:
143 lb Weight Loss:
8 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.1290322581 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 51 BMI Start:
27 BMI Current:
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Welcome SHUNDA on this site there is a wonderful ebook that helps with stubborn insurance issues. MAYBE try that book for help!!! http://www.weight-loss-surgery-insurance.com/ HOPE it helps you! HUGZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
__________________ LISA  http://w5.photobucket.com/widgets/dy...164/fr1endly2/ LAP RNY Gastric Bypass  |
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06-22-2006, 10:57 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: May 2006
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Hi Shunda! Welcome to the board. Hopefully the e-book link friendly sent you will help. Have you called any Docs to tell them of your problem? Sometimes they can help figure out ways to help you if your insurance refuses, like other ways to ask. I wish you luck. If you really really want it, go for it. Your idea about loosing weight first, I think, is smart. My doc didn'y require it but in hind site, from all the posts I've read, it probably would have made things better for post op as well as the op itself. Good luck and hang in there. You deserve the best. Kat
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06-22-2006, 11:15 PM
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Shunda, welcome to the board! Thank you for joinig us, please make yourself at home, and I hope you'll find many friends here. With your pre-op diet, is your PCP cooperative about your having bypass? If so, why don't you ask his/her help in working on an medically supervised diet to help you with your pre-op wieght loss. Just a thought here. I hope you can solve your finance problem, maybe, as everyone says, if you look into the Weight Loss Insurance Book, maybe you'll find some way that you can work this out. Good luck, and 
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06-23-2006, 01:30 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kuwait
Posts: 2,595
Blog Entries: 1 Weight Statistics for ever! Start Date:
4/18/06 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
335 lb Start Weight:
173 lb Current Weight:
154 lb Goal Weight:
162 lb Weight Loss:
19 lb Lb Left to Lose:
48.3582089552 % % Lost:
9/18/07 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 57.4963378906 BMI Start:
29.6921386719 BMI Current:
26.4311523438 BMI Goal:
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Welcome on board Shunda and wish you all the greatest luck for the insurance |
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06-23-2006, 06:20 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SOMEPLACE LONG ISLAND, NY
Posts: 6,756
Weight Statistics June 1, 2005 Start Date:
Height: 310 lb Start Weight:
167 lb Current Weight:
159 lb Goal Weight:
143 lb Weight Loss:
8 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.1290322581 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 51 BMI Start:
27 BMI Current:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass |
SHUNDA, MY surgeon did require me to loose 10 percent of my weight pre op and I am so thankful he had me do it. ONE it ridded alot of my cravings pre op verses when i was first home from the hospitol. HE feels the weight loss makes surgery safer, reduceing the fatty liver size for a successful lap surgery and MY surgeon also feels it reduces the complications post op. I feel if he didnt put this on me to loose pre op I would have easily gained upto 20 lbs more during the approval and clearance process. I would have been in that last meal syndrome figureing I wouldnt have my favorite foods again! SO i believe in pre op weight loss. FOR me i did ATKINS! and dropped the 25 lbs. ITS a very similar way of eating to the rules for us post op! All the best lisa
__________________ LISA http://w5.photobucket.com/widgets/dy...164/fr1endly2/ LAP RNY Gastric Bypass |
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06-23-2006, 08:33 AM
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| Guru In Training Join Date: May 2006 Location: In the country
Posts: 336
Weight Statistics August 2006 Surgery Date:
Height: 210 lb Start Weight:
141 lb Current Weight:
125 lb Goal Weight:
69 lb Weight Loss:
16 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.8571428571 % % Lost:
August 2007 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 38 BMI Start:
25 BMI Current:
22 BMI Goal:
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Hey, Lisa....I was laying in bed last night thinking that post-op eating is sort of like the Atkins diet. Which probably most of us have tried. I went to a seminar on diabetes recently. The speaker said that since the Atkins diet became so popular, it is much easier to educate about diabetes. Don't think I'll eat huge steaks and lots of bacon post-op, though, like I did before
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06-23-2006, 08:38 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SOMEPLACE LONG ISLAND, NY
Posts: 6,756
Weight Statistics June 1, 2005 Start Date:
Height: 310 lb Start Weight:
167 lb Current Weight:
159 lb Goal Weight:
143 lb Weight Loss:
8 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.1290322581 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 51 BMI Start:
27 BMI Current:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass |
Wannabethin... YEP you nailed it perfectly! A person who has done a perfect ATKINS will know that our way of eating post op is atkins like. PROBABLY why i am still on the message board from when i did atkins. I used the rules of induction thru my weight loss keeping my carbs under 25 and my protein up and up! KEPT me in fat burning mode! (and u know what, my hair thinned then too just like its doing now so its not the surgery its the eating)
__________________ LISA http://w5.photobucket.com/widgets/dy...164/fr1endly2/ LAP RNY Gastric Bypass |
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