Hello all! I am Kiki and I am looking forward to being banded soon. It feels as though I have waited so long for this already. I just finished my last supervised diet a week ago and my Dr. s office sent out my info on Friday. I am patiently waiting for a reply back but so far nothing. I know I should just relax but I'm worried about being approved. I really have my heart set on getting banded in June. How long does this take!!!

Hi Kiki,

The complete process from my GP to the actual lap band operation took me about 5 months. But I live in The Netherlands so things are probably a lot different between here and the US.

I hope that you will know more soon, good luck with the wait!

Greetzzzz

With mine,,, he looked at the Calender, and picked a date.

I have one more nutrition visit next week and then my stuff will be sent to the insurance company. I'm hoping I can get a quick approval (like 2 weeks) and be banded by June 28th. My surgeon (Dr. Speigel) only does surgeries every other Thursday and I would like to be healed before school starts in August. Good Luck!

Well I was just informed today that my insurance approval went through on yesterday!!!! So from the initial information session to yesterday was 7 weeks & 1 day. Only problem is I think my surgery date might be Aug 8. Im trying to get it moved up to end of June or Mid July. But Aug is only 8 1/2 weeks away! good luck I was impatient as well. It took imy nsurance 4 days to approve

From the time I attended my 1st seminar to now is 1 year. Surgery is scheduled for June 9th. I had to have 6 months of supervised Dr visits. Then everything was submitted to the insurance. The first time I was turned down but resubmitted and got approval. I'm now on day 4 of the protein drinks and can't wait until June 9th. Be patient it has been a long haul but well worth the wait.

I had my first appt in December and had surgery in March...My insurance approval took 2 days! I had to do a few things before they would approve surgery though. I had surgery approval in April and had surgery May 12th....Good Luck