I am starting the process of pursuing WLS (going to the hospital's info session on Thursday, woohoo), and in reading over the hospital's literature and website, it states that they do the lap procedure for people whose BMI's are between 40-50. This is quite disappointing to me, since I had thought I would be a good candidate for lap-- I have never had any abdominal surgeries before and thus no scar tissue, and I'm still pretty young (30) and aside from my weight, am in pretty good health. BUT my BMI is about 57. The thought crossed my mind to pester for an exception, but upon further consideration, I think I'd be better off letting a surgeon do whichever method he/she thinks is more appropriate!
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