Hello all, My name is Crystal York.. I am starting my journey to get the lapband. I just got married in June of 2010 and have met the love of my life. I have battled with weight my whole life and really would like to get down to an ideal weight to start a family with my husband one day, would aslo be nice to feel better about my self. I am just not getting added to his insurance in Feb... I wanted to know how long the process takes and what all I need to do to get it rolling. Any and all help is welcome. I seen alot of b4 and after pics and it has given me so much hope. Hope to hear from you all soon.

Welcome and Congrats on your new Husband. The process all depends on your insurance, my insurrance requires three months. But that three months requires that I meet with my Pcp, nutrionist and have a pshy evaluation. After all that is done which is Feb 7th, I will be scheduled for surgery.

Welcome and Congrats on your new Husband. The process all depends on your insurance, my insurrance requires three months. But that three months requires that I meet with my Pcp, nutrionist and have a pshy evaluation. After all that is done which is Feb 7th, I will be scheduled for surgery.

Grats on hearing that. Me and my husband been talking about it alot. My ins dont kick in till march/april so I will be going to see the doctor as soon as it kicks in. I really want this done I hope the approve it. I think they should since I need to loose about 230 pounds.

Me too I currently weigh 399lbs, I have a loooooooooooong way to go. But I'm excited about the ride. Keep me posted on your progress:)

Good luck to both of you. Sometimes the process takes a long time, but it is so worth it. If you have a 3 month wait, it will go quickly. It sometimes takes most of that time to arrange all the preop appointments (like EKG, psych eval.....)

Cindy

Good luck to both of you. Sometimes the process takes a long time, but it is so worth it. If you have a 3 month wait, it will go quickly. It sometimes takes most of that time to arrange all the preop appointments (like EKG, psych eval.....)

Cindy

I know I know it will take sometime, I am just so excited about it all. My ins does not kick in till April so I wont be able to get to much rolling till then. I am hoping it gets kicked in march so we will see. I am still a tad scared its gonna be a whole new me but I am determined to get this going and get on the road of losing all this excess weight. Its time to start being healthy and do the things I have never got to do bc I have been so shy and stuff about my weight. I did not even have a wedding bc I did not want to be seen as the fat girl in the dress. So once I do loose the weight my husband and I talked about having a real wedding. So its going to be get I know it is.... thank you both for your kind words.

Some insurance plans also require a 6-month supervised diet before surgery, it all depends on your plan.

For me, I just had to do the psych eval and nutritionist, then scheduled my surgery, which was 6 weeks out from then just because of so many other surgeries booked at the same time. During that 6 week wait was when I saw the pulminologist and my primary doctor had to see me and fill out paperwork saying I'm okay to have the surgery.