Hello,

Has anyone had their surgery through Kaiser. Did you have to do a liquid fast before the surgery? I will see the surgeon this Thursday, so I have not received any pre-op info. yet.

There are a lot of kaiser patients here. Which kaiser are you using? Every locations program is a little different. I went thru kaiser Fremont.

Hi Isereno,

Thank you for replying to my post. I am going to Kaiser West Los Angeles. I decided to ge there instead of the outside physician I was going to originally go to who was scheduling for Sept. an October. The RN told me that this kaiser was about 3 weeks out for surgery, if my all my tests were ok. So, I hoping and praying I get a surgery date on Thursday.

Here's a thread where people have posted who had their surgery at Kaiser West LA. I would PM them and ask.

http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/79144-is-anyone-going-to-the-west-los-angeles-kaiser-for-their-surgery/page__hl__%2Bkaiser+%2Bwest

Lynda

I had mine at kaiser harbor city almost 4 weeks ago. Liquid diet 2 days before surgery. I had my slipped band removed same time as the sleeve. I also work for kaiser as a case manager RN. My doctor was Dr. Zane who is really good.

Isereno, Thank you so much for the link.

You're welcome! Hope all goes well and you are scheduled soon.

Lynda

Hello,

Has anyone had their surgery through Kaiser. Did you have to do a liquid fast before the surgery? I will see the surgeon this Thursday, so I have not received any pre-op info. yet.

I'm going to Kaiser WLA for surgery too, although I did the pre-op Options classes at the Panorama City Facility not at WLA. Any facility in the Los Angeles County would have to do a 12 week Options program that's kind of a weight loss program prior to having surgery. Each class will be with either a nutritionist or a behaviorist and they'll give you tons of information. During those 12 weeks you'll have to loose some weight, usually 10% and they have you do food/exercise/water intake logs. They'll also have you do a bunch of labs. During the 12 weeks you also see the bariatric MD a few times for progress checks.

After the 12 weeks, if you completed all the program requirements (turned in all food logs, labs, EKG, chest xray and some have to do a psych evaluation) then you get referred to the surgeon at WLA. Once you see the surgeon, he makes sure you've lost enough weight and if you have he should give you the actual surgery referral.

I finished my Options classes last week, but I lagged on my psych evaluation and those appointments are hard to get so I need to do that before I meet the surgeon. I'm hoping to see the surgeon late August and have my surgery date for September!!! HOPEFULLY!

I did my Options classes at the Palmdale Facility. My surgery is scheduled for September 16, 2013. I am a little disappointed that I have to wait until next month. The first date they gave me was August 27, but too close to the date that I will be traveling on a plane, so that date was out! My hair stylist scared me a little, she does the hair of two of my colleagues that had the gastric by pass surgery and their hair failed out.

Hi RCN

Did you get your surgery date yet?

Hi RCN

Did you get your surgery date yet?

Yes, I'm scheduled for October 11th! =)