What To Expect?

[kimshaw 5]

I went to the seminar and my nurse calls me Thursday what happens after that? How long before surgery?

[PEvette 297]

lol, you really are new....

Did you actually talk to the nurse when she called you?? Did you make a appt to see the doctor???

I would take it from there and ask questions about their process because the requirements vary, its based on what your insurance requires as well as what the doctor requires....

[lglavish 15]

For me, I went to the seminar and had already scheduled a consult with my surgeon for the next day. During the consult he agreed that the sleeve was a good choice. Then I scheduled my H Pylori test and resting metabolism test (I had to wait two weeks as I was on a proton pump inhibitor which needed to be stopped two weeks prior to the H pylori.) Meanwhile I went to the first required class "Steps to Success" and started practicing some of the habits I would need for the future. I also went and saw my psychiatrist and he wrote me a letter of recommendation.

Because I was a self pay it cut through a lot of red tape and as soon as I ponied up the surgeon's fees and program fees I was able to schedule surgery. I scheduled it 1 month out and immediately started the 4 week required diet preop. I then went to the surgery center, paid them their fee and did my pre labs and ekg. I then called the anesthesiologist group to pre pay for that.

So my time line went from the seminar on 5-22-12 to surgery on 7-30-12. This is pretty quick but I saved a lot of time being self pay, and I already had a psychiatrist for the evaluation. I also saved on some of my labs as my rheumatologist runs them regularly and I was able to use those for some of the required stuff.

Hope this helps! Good luck on your journey

[smb 75]

Hi, I went to the seminar last December - kinda by chance. My primary care doctor mentioned surgery, I cried and felt like a failure. But in between tears, I looked online and saw a seminar was at my local office in like 2 weeks. So I signed up online and went.

To my surprise (i guess), I was "in" the program and that's that. My insurance co. requires 6 months of dietician. I did that. I lost the same 10 lbs about 3 times over this 6 months.

I start my pre-op diet Wed and have surgery scheduled for 8/29.

Back in Dec, the idea of possibly waiting til AUGUST was ridiculous, but now the time is here faster than I knew it.