I Need Help
It sounds like it.. I am suggesting maybe a gerontologist and a person who would specialize in intestinal issues. Just try going to them, only mentioning the RNY after you start talking to them. Treat it is a situation that you don't know why / what is causing you to have the constant diarrhea, sick stomach and shaking after meals. They may do testing themselves or after talking to you and learning about the RNY, they may suggest you going to one of WLS specialists, tell them you would need a letter of referral so they will see you since your original surgery was somewhere else.You have tried. That way, if you have a letter (s) from other physicians stating you need the help of a WLS surgeon they might be more willing to see you. And if you still run into issues, then you at least have grounds for a formal complaint, to the office (s) you are trying to go to and or the Medical Board.
Just keep fighting for your body. I know, being there myself right now, it gets so depressing and frustrating. But I focus on myself and how important it is for me to be healthy and change / fix things to do do that. It somehow makes me feel at least I am being proactive. I haven't even gotten my answer from the insurance medical review board, but have already scheduled my orthopedic appointment to get a letter from him stating I need to lose the weight in order to prevent another knee replacement. And then the RNY psychologist to get a letter stating I am a good candidate for a revision (since I have already been seeing him and he agrees this should be easy) then the neurologist to get a letter stating there is a direct relationship between migraines (of which I have a very sever issue with) (I also have done a ton of research and have at least 10 medical publications supporting this relationship between weight loss and migraines I will include) ,the gastrointestinal specialist to help verify that I have either a hernia or ulcer that need surgical intervention due to major reflux, and I going to get the referral to be tested for sleep apena as well! That way if the medical board denies me this time, the next round, with a new request for approval is already in a stack of papers verifying my issues and also the medical evidence and approval from my surgeon to do the surgery! I If it takes me two years or more, well than it does.. I will even get my medical records from my PCP showing my weight gain if i have to!
Not only do I do this for my health, but honestly it totally ****** me off that some person, at some desk, somewhere at my insurance company, can sit there and decide if my surgeon and doctors know what they are talking about when they state I need the surgery! How dare someone who doesn't even KNOW ME decide how my life is going to go!! And I have a somewhat stubborn streak when I feel I am treated unfairly or like an object rather than a human.
So consider going this way too.. really. It helps the depression (although if you let it, when you put in for you pre approval and are waiting for a decision,or an answer to your appeal, every damn appeal, it it does get VERY stressful). But at least I am acting, not feeling I have no where to go and no way to get there. Meanwhile I prepare for the surgery, and I eat (the best I can) like I will after I get it, hoping that will be at least a bit successful. It doesn't help a lot, so I try to stay off the scale so I don't get too discouraged. I am not willing to look back on this issue and at least say I didn't do every damn thing in my power to change the situation. Even if I lose in the end (though I will do my damnedest not to) and continue to gain, I can look myself in the mirror and say I tried. I tried so hard.. so now it is time to come to some acceptance and recreate my life with my extra weight still there. Then in two years I will start all over with the whole process! Just with more weight on.
Keep your head up and fight.. fight for you and your health.. don't let doctors or insurance sit there and refuse to help you.
