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January 10th for me!!!

5 written test, some short one long. drug and alchohol test, binge eating test, anxiety test, depression test, and overall weight related/psych test questions. I met with counselor for 1 hour (back ground from childhood, marriage, on), background anxiet/depression mental disorder etc. , then after i took the tests i met with psychologist who saw me for 10-15 minutes. He mostly empasized losing best friend, seek help if needed. He also let me know since I do take medicine for depression and anxiety to be sure to seek help if need it with the big change after and that I needed to be sure and get my antidepressant in liquid form as it does not absorb the same after surgery. I was a bit weirded out by it all as well and I have been in counseling before in the past. On the questions they ask you if you do written tests, you just do the best you can. I called the BAriactric office after a few days and the results were in. I thought it was a pass or fail type of deal. The nurse told me that they mostly are concerned with anyone who may be suicidal, etc. She did let me know that 90% of the patience are on some sort of antidepressant and/or anti-anxiety. Anyway, I had no problems but I will say I was glad when it was all over with. Personally, I did answer as honestly as I could but also keeping in mind that if I do have issues after the surgery then I will go to counseling and that mostly this is all about insurance approval requirements. . Hope this helps. I am scheduled for the 10th of Jan. Also, my dr office has a list of psychologists that they work with and I did go to the one at the top of the list and I believe this sped up the process. I however did have to pay $300.00 they said becuz the testing part is diff from copay. Good luck.

Congrats! Mine is the 10th of January!

thanks i agree!

Hey all. I may end up getting the EAS already made protein drinks at Walmart. I bought a few of the bottles of bariactric advantage from surgeon office yesterday and omg to me it was like drinking barium before an upper GI. Very disappointed. Very medicine like and thick. I even tried it with water and very little powder. Any favs out there? I am preop

Thank you very much

wow so sorry that happened to you. i am also preop. For my psych evaluation I had to personally take 5 written tests and meet with a counselor for an hour then a psycholigst after that but that is just me. That is crazy so sorry to hear you have to go through all of that.

Can you get isopure at walmart?