I have a few random things to share but wanted to show I'm still here! I have had two nutritionist appointments, bloodwork, EGD, cardiac clearance with cardiologist which included echocardiogram, EKG, Cardiac Nuclear PET Scan and a stress test. I just need one more nutritionist appointment and my in home sleep study which are both on Thursday! Then I will have completed all the things that Medicare wants.
So far I don't have the big comorbidities that the surgeon's office says Medicare approves for like high blood pressure or diabetes. I'm hoping for sleep apnea and there's a good chance that I have it because I snore and shake the house like a train. I could have sworn that I read something official from Medicare that with a BMI over 40 that I didn't need a comorbidity but I can't find it now. What happens if I don't have sleep apnea? Could arthritis and high cholesterol be enough?
Also, they haven't said specifically that I should be losing weight and I really haven't. Last month I had a stomach virus right before I went and was still recovering at the time of my appointment but I told them that I had been really sick. I had lost 6 pounds but I have gained half that back now despite my efforts. I have been keeping my set goals though.
I also want to add for anyone searching later that I had the cardiac stress test with medication at the cardiologist because they said that I would need to walk for 20 minutes but I don't have the mobility. The medication made me feel awful. Nauseous, dizzy, weak, headachey and my chest kind of felt funny.
They had told me before hand that I shouldn't breastfeed for 48 hours but I consulted with LactMed and an doctor who's a well known expert in breastfeeding and Tetrofosmin was 6 hours. But then they didn't use it and the drug they did use Rubidium had a half life of 72 seconds and my baby didn't have to wait at all. She wasn't there and by the time I had arrived at home the markers were no longer radioactive. They recommend 24 hours but that is based on liability and not at all the amount of radioactive materials that would be in my body. Nor on the science of how milk is produced by a body.
Lastly, I have joined a few fb DS groups and wow! Not everyone values and evidence based approach and are so easily threatened by facts or research that may disagree with the decisions they made. So I like it here and all your frank talking ways!
So far I don't have the big comorbidities that the surgeon's office says Medicare approves for like high blood pressure or diabetes. I'm hoping for sleep apnea and there's a good chance that I have it because I snore and shake the house like a train. I could have sworn that I read something official from Medicare that with a BMI over 40 that I didn't need a comorbidity but I can't find it now. What happens if I don't have sleep apnea? Could arthritis and high cholesterol be enough?
Also, they haven't said specifically that I should be losing weight and I really haven't. Last month I had a stomach virus right before I went and was still recovering at the time of my appointment but I told them that I had been really sick. I had lost 6 pounds but I have gained half that back now despite my efforts. I have been keeping my set goals though.
I also want to add for anyone searching later that I had the cardiac stress test with medication at the cardiologist because they said that I would need to walk for 20 minutes but I don't have the mobility. The medication made me feel awful. Nauseous, dizzy, weak, headachey and my chest kind of felt funny.
They had told me before hand that I shouldn't breastfeed for 48 hours but I consulted with LactMed and an doctor who's a well known expert in breastfeeding and Tetrofosmin was 6 hours. But then they didn't use it and the drug they did use Rubidium had a half life of 72 seconds and my baby didn't have to wait at all. She wasn't there and by the time I had arrived at home the markers were no longer radioactive. They recommend 24 hours but that is based on liability and not at all the amount of radioactive materials that would be in my body. Nor on the science of how milk is produced by a body.
Lastly, I have joined a few fb DS groups and wow! Not everyone values and evidence based approach and are so easily threatened by facts or research that may disagree with the decisions they made. So I like it here and all your frank talking ways!