200 lbs or less with diabetes

Okay here is my dilema. I weigh 202 lbs as of right now. I have diabetes olesterol since I was 16 I am 41 right now. My docs tells me if I drop below 198 my insurance won't pay for the surgery. I have been reading that you have to get on a liquid diet days before the surgery. Has anyone had the RNY suryery weighing at around 200 ibs and if so how much weight did you lose. Is there such thing as losing too much weight? I take 5 shots a day and hoping I can get off the insulin.

I believe insurance companies use your starting weight when deciding insurance approval.

BTW, Have you researched the DS? It has a higher cure rate for diabetes (98%) that RNY (92%). It's also GREAT for high cholesterol problems, as it targets the absorbtion of fats.

Insurance approves surgery based on your weight at the time you surgeon submits the paperwork requesting approval.  I've never heard of an insurance company requiring you to be weighed the day of surgery, after doing a liquid diet, and saying you could not have the surgery after all if you lost too much on the liquid diet.

Also, not all docs require a liquid diet.  But even if yours does, I've never heard of surgery being cancelled because you lost too much.  I've heard of it being cancelled by a surgeon, not an insurance company, if a patient gained weight before surgery.  But not the other way around.

Kelly

I was very close to the lowest weight for my height, so my surgeon didnt' have me do a preop diet.