More and more I'm convinced that I need WLS. I'm holding out for Thursday when I have a follow up appt with my primary doc, but in my heart I think I've already decided that I need to do this. I don't see any other way and I want to get it over with as quicky as possible.

How long after you decided to get the surgery were you actually able to get it? Including insurance authorization and pre-op stuff. psych eval, nutrition classes, etc.

I'm taking a couple college classes and I still have a couple months left to the semester and I wonder if I will be able to get the surgery before they finish. There are a lot of factors I realize, I'm just trying to plan whether I need to drop the classes and take them back up in the fall (which is certainly an option).

It's strange, now that I've convinced myself to do this I'm also feeling quite nervous about it. Not nervous about complications or something. I want to get it over with. There's so much I want to do this summer and I don't want to spend it recovering from surgery.

Mine is a little different since I'm at a small Army post so everything was done very quickly! The first appt. with the surgeon to the surgery date was 1 month and two weeks!

I went to the seminar mid September 2010 and I was sleeved December 20, 2010. As others have said it does depend on your insurance, I have BCBS PPO of Michigan. I did not have to go on a supervised diet nor did I have a waiting period. I was very lucky and I am so happy with my decision to go with the sleeve.

I was really lucky because I had done a 6 month weight management program thingy with work within the timeline my insurance wanted. At the time I did that program I wasnt even considering WLS I was simply doing it to lose weight...

That being said I decided in July I wanted surgery. Researched.... and all that fun stuff... and had my surgery in December!

I had surgery at Kaiser Richmond. I started the first week of May and had my surgery on June 22nd. I was very luck in how fast it proceeded. I only had to loose 10lbs to get my surgery, I ended up loosing 36 lbs by the morning of my surgery.

Hope all goes quick for you :-)

good luck

I am self pay. My total from start to surgery date was 3 months, 2 weeks.

I attended my first seminar in late August, 1st surgeon meeting early Dec. and having surgery March 17 I will say the biggest slow down I had was finding a psychologist that does the evals for weight loss surgery. If the surgeon you pick does not work with a specific psychologist I say go ahead and find one as soon as you can, I found they are few and far between, but that may just be central Alabama. Good luck!

My wait time with Kaiser in Southern California has been 16 months start to finish. I started the process in January 2010 and my surgery is scheduled for May 2011. I'm kind of glad that they didn't tell me how long the process would be start to finish last January because I would have cried. Now I'm just thrilled that my surgery date is almost here!

6 months from start to finish, using UHC insurance. I called in Apr 2010 and had to complete 6 months of documented weight monitoring with either a dr., nurse, or reg. dietician. I went through my surgeon's office for all my visits with his in-house nutritionists and had surgery in Oct. 2010.