I just joined today. So far, I've been approved by my insurance for the lap band except for a letter from my primary care doctor about one of my medications. Last week, I had my first consultation and a physical. I have my psych exam & meet with a nutritionist this coming Monday. What should I expect from these appointments on Monday? What comes next?

I am a Type I diabetic. I know that I will always have diabetes, but I hope that losing weight will make my diabetic complications fewer.

I am a teacher and I am hoping that I can have the time consuming part behind me before I go back to school in the fall. I hope this is possible.

If your already insurance approved things should move along pretty fast. The psych evaluation if they do it the same will be in test format. They will ask questions and then later in test they will ask the same question and maybe reword it slightly. All sorts of things but nothing that is overly strange. The nutritionist should be fine as well. I had to do a sleep apnea study overnight, a pulmonary test, think they did a chest xray, but I did the sleep test then the next morning went straight into the other testing right at the same location.

They might not require all those since your insurance already approved. My guess is that you will be scheduled pretty fast and heal up before school.

Thank you for the information. I think there was something mentioned about an EKG. Don't know if they'll do it Monday or on another day. I have sleep apnea and a CPAP machine so I don't have to worry about that.

I'm getting very excited about doing this. I hope that I don't have to do the pre-op diet for very long and can get going ASAP.

Best of luck to you!!