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linda305    173

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So after answering all those questions to the best of my abilty. She said i had severe depression. She said she wanted me to see 3 more times before surgery. I really wanted to get it done by December. Also does that mean it might not happen at all.

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ReEstDec2013    40

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DANG! That is frustrating! I am currently seeing a therapist now separate from the Phsyc eval that is mandatory for the surgery. My appt is in November and I am nervous that this therapist will say the same thing too. Wonder what the re-precautions will be if they don't clear me. Would love to know if anyone else on here had this happened to them too.

Good luck and I hope you get to have your surgery in December.

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linda305    173

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To be honest with you i am not depressed. I just know I'm fat and want to lose weight. She just want me to keep coming back so she would continue getting paid by my insurance. This really sucks.

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Teachamy    1,042

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Similar thing happened to me. I scheduled my consultation with an approved social worker outside of the bariatric practice. First meeting she told me I had a great attitude and seemed to be very self-aware. Then she scheduled 2 more appointments. Learned my lesson! See how quickly your counselor can get you in. Explain your situation. Maybe it will help?

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linda305    173

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Similar thing happened to me. I scheduled my consultation with an approved social worker outside of the bariatric practice. First meeting she told me I had a great attitude and seemed to be very self-aware. Then she scheduled 2 more appointments. Learned my lesson! See how quickly your counselor can get you in. Explain your situation. Maybe it will help?

Did you have your surgery yet? If so did you really have to wait for all appointments with physc first.

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linda305    173

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Did i mention today is also my last appointment with my pcp. My 6 months was suppose to be over today. No this physc comes witg this news. Just my luck

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ReEstDec2013    40

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To be honest with you i am not depressed. I just know I'm fat and want to lose weight. She just want me to keep coming back so she would continue getting paid by my insurance. This really sucks.

Linda305

I agree! They just want to build up their clientele for the money... Sad! I truly hope this does not interfere with your surgery plans.

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magtart    603

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Damn, that sucks! I just got back from mine and good grief, what a yawn fest. 370 questions, true or false. I wanted to write in at the bottom: is this the most annoying test you have ever seen? TRUE!?!?!?! At one point I was in the testing room alone and took a picture of the test booklet so I could show my husband.

I only spent maybe 15 min. with the psychologist and she was very nice.

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Bob624    14

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Mine was over 500 questions, a half hour interview and then i had to interpret about 20 cliches. The testing did bring up some interesting things about me though, but nothing so serious as to delay the process.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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