Originally Posted by tx mom

ok so after 3 hours on the phone with the insurance company here is what i found out. apparently when we sent the appeal the insurance company assumed it was the same thing and denied it. so after talking to about 20 different people today i finally got one that listened to me and she figured this out. she is going to put a rush on this so hopefully by thursday (keeping fingers crossed) i will finally be approved.

and txchick the first place i called was nuweigh, but their surgeon that does revisions no longer takes my insurance. my current surgeon was actually recommend by them.

Originally Posted by tx mom

no baby nicole i have the lap band. i have had some problems with it. the first year it was fine but then i started having problems and was told that they couldn't fill me anymore and basically that was it. so i gained back almost all of the weight i had lost. so now i am trying to get the revision to rny.

Originally Posted by tx mom

well i wanted the rny from the beginning but was talked into the band. i am really hoping that i do as well if not better with the rny. i really don't want to go through another surgery and a bigger surgery to end up failing again.