I am still a newbie ad waiting for my consult date. When did you receive your surgery date ? At nutrition? Psych? It looks like I will have my psych and nutrition app on the same day . How long does the psych take?

I guess it depends on a number of things. Insurance requirements: I had 6 months of PCP supervised Weight Loss appointments. Once I finished all of my requirements: PCP visits, psych appts (1 for testing, 1 for clearance and 1 more within 3 mo of surgery) Nutritionist, exercise physiologist, EKG, Upper GI, Sleep study x 2. It was submitted to my insurance, they generally don't schedule (through my clinic) until you are approved through insurance, but I had a special circumstance so they "penciled" me into a date I needed. So From my first appt until I knew my surgery date was around 6.5 months.

I guess I should have said I would be self pay

During my initial eval with the surgeon last July, she asked me when did I want to have the surgery. I said Oct or Nov. so we scheduled other visits immediately. Got surgery date in mid Oct & had surgery Nov 7.

I got mine on the day I met the surgeon. I do not have a 6 month diet requirement so I was scheduled 8 wks out. My dr is on vaca for first part of Sept

If I was self pay I imagine it would take maybe two months to be scheduled. I have had to do an upper GI test, two visits with a nutritionist and a psychological visit. I also will meet with my surgeon twice prior to surgery. My first consult visit answered a lot of questions. I have insurance paying for my WLS. So after my first consult I met with my insurance rep who walked me through all my pre-surgery requirements and set up all my doctors appointments. The hospital I am having surgery through has made things really easy.

I started all my appointments in May, did my class In June, Finished all classes and test by July 26th and already have my date. Its a pretty quick process and I think the psych consult was the worst. 1ST was going over your past from child to present, 2nd I took a 500 question test, and 3rd was going over my results. I was offered a late August date but it conflicted with other stuff going on so I am scheduled Sept 16