I am new to this site and impressed. I tend to face all my fears alone including the possibility of this surgery, but this site seems to be a good support and resource center.I attended my first information session last night and met the surgeon who would possibly be doing my procedure. I was impressed with the statistics of the hospital in this area. I admit I didnt know much difference between the three major procedures but was leaning toward the sleeve. After last night I am sure the sleeve would be best for me. I have PCOS and the surgeon advised the sleeve has had the most success with women with PCOS and that i should consider getting on birth control right after surgery because he has had several patients get pregnate within 6 months of post op.That was music to my ears!! Not the getting pregnate part, but the success of dealing with PCOS. I feel like if i didnt have that, I might be able to do this alone. However, it is frustrating to eat healthy and exercise and never lose any weight! My question for the people here who have been through or are going through this, how do you deal with people when they tell you your taking the lazy way out? It angers me because I work so much harder than my peers and get poor results. I am anything but LAZY! Also what is the quickest anybody has done this? My insurance covers this and just requires whatever program up to the surgery. I would like to do it in July. Am i setting myself up for disappointment hoping for that month? Thanks you in advance for sharing your wisdom/experience.

I have Kaiser in N. Cal, too. I have my first consultation on May 10th and it cannot come fast enough!! So what do I do from there? I don't have to take the 12-week class? So far, I know they weigh me, I have to lose 10%, I have to schedule all the pre-op appts. (did you have to do the swallow and the sleep apnea test?) What else? Share your wealth of knowledge with me. lol

It seems to me that people with conditions like PCOS that make i hard to lose weight should have a lower requirement- if you could lose the weight that easily you would not need surgery!

The little devil in me thinks you could to what the manipulators on Biggest Loser do - push the Water intensely before your first weigh in so your weight is artificially high... ;-P

lol, it's funny you say that because the morning of the orientation where they weighed us in, I ate a really salty Breakfast and drank a TON of water. I had to pee SOOOO bad but I was holding it. My friend was there with me as my support person and I told her "I don't want a couple extra pounds to just go down the toilet.... literally." LOL. I saw people walking into the bathroom before weigh-in and I just kept thinking "Noooo, don't do it!" ha ha.

I've lost 10 pounds since the initial weigh-in and I wonder to myself how much of it was just my salty breakfast and water Oh well, 10 pounds is 10 pounds! I'll take it. I find out my "magic number" tomorrow. Hopefully they don't give me too much more to lose, because this PCOS is such a little devil.

I am a newbie to this site as well. I went to a seminar on May 18th to see what bariatric surgery was all about. I decided to call and make an appointment the next day! I had my appointment on May 26th along with my nutritional and psych consult. I received a letter from my insurance company on June 6th saying it was approved and just yesterday the doctors office called to schedule my surgery for the beginning of August. Yikes....it's all kind of moving so fast!!! I have to do a liquid diet for 10 days before my surgery and a few pre op tests and I'm good to go....I think

Reading all the other posts about it taking months is kind of scaring me....why are they pushing my through so quickly????