My Consult Appt Today

Hello everyone!  I had my consult with Dr Rantis today at the Kane Center.  What a wonderful and caring Dr he is.  I really like him.  His nurse Mary is wonderful as well.  Aww heck, they are all super nice there. Dr R took his time with me and answered all of my questions and told me that I am the perfect candidate for the GBS.  I am excited.  The only thing is that they do want me to start the 6 month diet over with their NUT, which is okay I guess.  I am awaiting a call back from her to set up my first appt, which I told them I want ASAP.  I really wanna get the show on the road. 

Congrats! Your on your way. Did you get that form for the from the other poster that has BCBS of IL? I was wondering if you can send it to me. I was going to fill it out and have my pcp sign off on it. Also not to be a bubble buster but in the policy I have it states a 6 month supervised diets preferablly not afiliated with the surgeons office. You may want to ask some of our friends here at OH what their experience was if they used the surgons office. That's GREAT that you ar moving ALONG SO WELL.KEEP ME POSTED.

Hmm now you got me thinking...lol   The nut that I will be seeing is in a completely different office from the surgeon and deals with all patients having or have had WLS.  I hope that this will be okay.  Maybe someone will see these posts and help out!! I will send you the form that I got from my surgeons office for the nut to fill out.  I also found out that BCBS does like for you to try diet drugs...well my PCP won't prescribe them for anyone....not sure what I would do then.   Oh well, I am just going to do what they say and I guess if I get denied, then I fight back harder.  This is something that I AM going to have done!

Monica. Thanks so much for that form.It has everything on it that they(insurance) want! I greatly appreciate it. My pcp prescribed me phentermine for weight loss. I hate them. They give me a dry mouth and make my chest feel tight. I barely take them. I told him I took them beofre and when I stoped back came the weight. They are a stimuant for sure ! I stay up al night too. I went last month and he was out of town so i saw his PA. She prescribed me mobic for my joint pain in my knees and something else for heart burn/acid reflux. I don't realy want to take all those pils. I will only take them if I have bad knee pain or heart burn.I am too young for all these rx.lol all these problems due to my weight. Those 6 months are going to fly by.I was thinking it would be long but after month2 YOUR HALF WAY THERE! Keep me posted. I'm doing a happy dance for that form

Dear Monica: It sounds like things went well and you are on your way! Do what they tell you to do, they have the most experience.  Each of us has only our own individual experience, and they have records of bunches of people.

It must feel good to get started.  Hang in there it will all work out eventually!