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Finally got my surgery date! Okay, my surgeon's assistant who coordinates the insurance applications has all of the required evaluations and documents and is submitting them to the insurance company. She also gave me a surgery date of June 19 so I'm assuming with her vast experience she has...

Still no surgery date. I've don't most of the evaluation (the first shrink I used turned out to be a weirdo and had a hidden agenda of wanting me to remain a patient so I fired his a##). Tonight I went to a support group at my hospital. Its' the first chance I got to meet other weight loss...

Sleep study was done last night. It was better than the previous experience but it took a long time until I had a mask on that was comfortable and didn't leak air. So I didn't fall asleep until 2am and woke up at 5:30am. The good news is that the technician said I was sleeping soundly and in...

Thanks. As I said, I had a sleep study done 7 years ago and it was hell. The facility was horrible (the shower in the morning was disgusting for one thing). In fact, I had a look on the internet for reviews and found people are still complaining about it. I tried another facility for the...

I had to wait a month for an appointment with the surgeon. In the meantime I had the endoscopy done (colonoscopy was already done in September and was acceptable to use). Surgeon and I both agreed that the sleeve would be the best procedure for me. The only bad news is that he wants a sleep...

Hello all. I'm a 55 yr old male living in NYC. After much "successful" dieting which invariably reversed itself so that I not only gained back the weight but added on some more. It looks like the diet road is closed and it's now to consider bariatric surgery. I made an appointment for a...