kaiser ssf

Hi all!  Has anyone with kaiser in the bay area ever gotten a revision approval? 

Thanks

 
Have yo posted this question on Proboards????  There is alot of Kaiser experience there!!!!

What or where is Proboards?  Thanks

http://weightlosssurgery.proboards.com/index.cgi#wls

Another weighloss surgery  board where ALOT of the vets with exprience went to.



-Jamie

I'm in Oregon and have Kaiser. They required that I have the band removed first, then apply to the bariatric weight loss program afterwards. That's what I'm doing, jumping through their hoops    Had my band removed 7 days ago, have an appointment today to formally request RNY with my primary.

Good luck!

Thanks!  What is the recovery with the band removal?   Good luck to you!!!

Spent one night in the hospital. The pain was the worst where the port was. I had no abdominal pain at all. Don't get me wrong, there was pain, just not in my stomach. I was in a LOT of pain in the port area    It was hard to get up and down for the first 4 days, Dh took time off of work so I could rest while he watched the kids. I had a LOT of scar tissue (which was not removed) around my port.

My band removal was a fairly simple. Doc says that he just cut away the capsule (?) that develops around it naturally and clipped it. He also mentioned that the liver had grown into it a bit.

Today is exactly one week since surgery. I'm now sleeping through the night (that too****il day 5) and can get up and down with ease. Haven't had any pain pills in a few days now.

Eating is not an issue at all now. I was allowed to eat breakfast the next morning (told to eat whatever I wanted, but to "go slow"). I can eat whatever now. That worries me. I don't want to gain before the next surgery. My BMI is already high enough that I qualify for another bariatric weight loss surgery (darn that lap-band, what a waste of 5 years!)

I'm happy to have it out, and would have LOVED to have it revised at the same time. I totally feel it's a waste of time, money and my pain to do it this way....but Kaiser is a huge bureaucracy and you have to do things the way they want them done.

Feel free to ask any questions that may come up. Oh--My time from requesting removal to surgery was only 3 weeks 

Wishing you luck!

May I ask a question please, how long did you have your band in????
I am having a revision done myself on the 21st of March and they are
removing the band and doing the revision at the same time.  Just
wondering what to expect.

Sincerely,

Audrey

On March 6, 2012 at 4:21 PM Pacific Time, AUDREY A. wrote: May I ask a question please, how long did you have your band in????
I am having a revision done myself on the 21st of March and they are
removing the band and doing the revision at the same time.  Just
wondering what to expect.

Sincerely,

Audrey

I had the band around 5 years.

Good luck with your revision!