After years of battling the weight, trying many programs and medications I am wanting to get the sleeve . I am having significant issues with knees and hip and was diagnosed recently with apnea. I am pre-diabetic and have high blood pressure. I finally decided to go this route and my insurance company is making it difficult. I had been seeing an obesity specialist since May and tried three different meds but it doesn’t count toward their 6 months of supervised weight loss. So the soonest I could have the surgery and have insurance cover 50% is March or April. Today I find out I need hip replacement which they want to do after the sleeve surgery. I am in a lot of pain and I can’t imagine waiting that long for relief. I am considering self pay. It would put a huge strain on us though. Anyone else faced this and what did you do?
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