Hi! I'm new here and planning

on surgery after my 6 mo. monitored plan required by Aetna! Glad to see a Fifties group -- looks like successes and some problems with our group. The surgery is scary to me -- but even scarier to my husband who isn't really happy about me doing this.

I live in Georgia -- my doctor is Dr. Champion in Marietta GA.......I need to lose 80 lbs.....and the doc says I'm borderline qualifying for surgery - not sure exactly why.....but they told me if I lose move than 13 lbs during this 6 months, I'll no longer qualify.....so tell me what's a girl to do?????

I've been doing a lot of reading on this forum and am very glad I've found it -- I think I'll send my hubby here to do some reading as well. He is really very concerned -- but since he's a mere 155 lbs soaking wet and couldn't gain weight if he tried....he really cannot relate to what I go through -- so thanks for being here!

I to have Aetna and went through the 6 mths pre approval steps. It was long but now 10day post op and down 18lbs I already feel it was worth it. My husband was also against the surgery. We started praying for direction, researching it together and went to a meeting together. Once he started to look at the pros/cons he got on board. He has been a wonderful support for me.

THanks! My husband is wonderful and will support me, but he has never had a surgery in his life,so any type of surgical procedure scares him. I definitely want him involved in this wiht me, so he can gain a better understanding of what it's all about.

It will be good to have a good support group for sure. Good luck on continued success!