Svetlana Leigh
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Hello everyone!!
I currently have a Lap-Band that I want to have removed and revised to the DS. I've had it since Dec. 2007. I have insurance but unfortunately it's an exclusion. I was self-pay in 2007 so I'll be self-pay again. I live in Knoxville and though I'd love to have Dr. Boyce or even Dr. Williams , I don't want to completely deplete my savings and I don't want to take out any loans. I'm leaning towards Dr. Esquerra but there is a little voice in the back of my head that keeps holding me back. I keep reading stories where people are having a hard time getting their physician to do all of the required labs to check for vitamin deficiencies.
I lost very little wight with the band. My starting weight was 230lbs and I got down to 200lbs. I currently weigh 240 and I'm 5'7. My old physician was Dr. Colquitt which I'd last seen about 2 years ago when he suggested that I get a sleeve. I smiled and politely told him that I preferred the RNY. He told me that he would not revise me to the RNY because I didn't weigh enough at that time which I was at my starting weight of 230lbs. I've not seen him since....
I currently have a Lap-Band that I want to have removed and revised to the DS. I've had it since Dec. 2007. I have insurance but unfortunately it's an exclusion. I was self-pay in 2007 so I'll be self-pay again. I live in Knoxville and though I'd love to have Dr. Boyce or even Dr. Williams , I don't want to completely deplete my savings and I don't want to take out any loans. I'm leaning towards Dr. Esquerra but there is a little voice in the back of my head that keeps holding me back. I keep reading stories where people are having a hard time getting their physician to do all of the required labs to check for vitamin deficiencies.
I lost very little wight with the band. My starting weight was 230lbs and I got down to 200lbs. I currently weigh 240 and I'm 5'7. My old physician was Dr. Colquitt which I'd last seen about 2 years ago when he suggested that I get a sleeve. I smiled and politely told him that I preferred the RNY. He told me that he would not revise me to the RNY because I didn't weigh enough at that time which I was at my starting weight of 230lbs. I've not seen him since....