I was a nervous wreck for the appointment. I was not at the BMI of 50, I was close - around 49. I tried to drink a ton of water that day to help beef up my weight on the scale but ended up peeing it all out before my appointment! LOL!
The first thing that was done when I arrived was the nurse took my height and weight. Wonder of all wonders, I was an inch shorter than I thought I was. All my life I have been thinking that I am 5 foot 4, and I am really 5 foot 3! So I did reach the doctors BMI requirement. In fact, I was 51.5! This is something that sounds really silly, but make sure you get your height measured.
The Endocrinologist was SUCH a nice man. He asked me all kinds of questions about me, my weight history, my family, my diet history etc. He took measurements of my body and checked for swelling of my ankles.
He said he would approve me for surgery.
Of course, his approval isn't the main approval. The hardest approval to receive is OHIP and quite frankly, I didn't think I would get approved being that I have no major documented comorbidities. The only problems I really have are: joint and back pain (so far I haven't done much about it) and urinary stress incontinence. That's hardly a big list for OHIP to approve me so I was seriously thinking that it would take me a few appeals at least in order to get approval.
And no for the record, I did not send in any letters or photos to OHIP. I figured I'd save them for the appeal if I needed one. The only thing that was sent in was the form filled out by the doctor.
Random Before Pictures
I was a nervous wreck for the appointment. I was not at the BMI of 50, I was close - around 49. I tried to drink a ton of water that day to help beef up my weight on the scale but ended up peeing it all out before my appointment! LOL!
The first thing that was done when I arrived was the nurse took my height and weight. Wonder of all wonders, I was an inch shorter than I thought I was. All my life I have been thinking that I am 5 foot 4, and I am really 5 foot 3! So I did reach the doctors BMI requirement. In fact, I was 51.5! This is something that sounds really silly, but make sure you get your height measured.
The Endocrinologist was SUCH a nice man. He asked me all kinds of questions about me, my weight history, my family, my diet history etc. He took measurements of my body and checked for swelling of my ankles.
He said he would approve me for surgery.
Of course, his approval isn't the main approval. The hardest approval to receive is OHIP and quite frankly, I didn't think I would get approved being that I have no major documented comorbidities. The only problems I really have are: joint and back pain (so far I haven't done much about it) and urinary stress incontinence. That's hardly a big list for OHIP to approve me so I was seriously thinking that it would take me a few appeals at least in order to get approval.
And no for the record, I did not send in any letters or photos to OHIP. I figured I'd save them for the appeal if I needed one. The only thing that was sent in was the form filled out by the doctor.
Random Before Pictures