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I have not received the letter yet, but when I called Aetna on Thursday to check the status of my appeal she told me they overturned the previous denial and I have been approved, and that the letter was sent out last Tuesday. I immediately called my insurance coordinator at my surgeon's office and we both did a happy dance over the phone. I am now scheduled for surgery on August 19th, 3 days after my dad's 80th birthday celebration. I've taken the time off work AGAIN, and now I just have to be 100% sure I want LGB versus the Lapband. I've been approved for Gastric Bypass. My only hesitations are these- how much gas/bad breath do y'all really have? And for those of you that are past the year mark, can you eat almost anything? Can you eat any sugar/fat or is that something your body really can't tolerate? Just curious to see what percentage experience dumping, etc? There's a small part of me that thinks the lapband is the safer, better surgery, but truthfully if I am going to have surgery I want the best odds of success. Any opinions? It may all be moot anyway, because I have had 3 prior abdominal surgeries, so once they are in there, there is a chance I may have too much scar tissue for him to do the bypass. They asked what I wanted at that point and I said lapband, don't put me through surgery and wake me up to tell me I have nothing. LOL