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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!!!

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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

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

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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!

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Well I was just informed today that my insurance approval went through on yesterday!!!! :D 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

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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.

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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

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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