Had my first appointment with the surgeon today he seemed kind of rush, we'll anyway I have one nut appt and both of my psychiatrist appt all in august and my nurse practitioner appt sept 15, any ideas of when my surgery will be?

Hi Jenn, I had my first RNY appointment 0n March 10, 2014... My Surgery date is tomorrow 7/30/14. I am (self pay) so I did not have to jump through a lot of the insurance hoops, red tape or special dietary that most patients do, however I still had to complete all testing and be healthy enough to have the procedure done.

My clinics requirements were (2) support group meetings, (2) NUT visits, (2) Pysch visits, Cardiologist visit, Pulmonologist visit, Xray, sleep Study, PFT Test, EGD, and Stress Test and so many labs that I lost count.

Everyone and their health conditions are different though, I am blessed to have no serious illness other than obesity, I can only imagine the test if your not 'semi-healthy' going into this kind of procedure.... Hang in there, spend as much time as you can researching and learning from the Post Op patients on this and many other WLS boards, it is truly helpful along the way and the time will pass by before you know it. Best of luck to you!

Good luck on ur surgery...please keep me posted as u start ur journey of weight loss, I would really like someone's out look as in what is going on. I my self really don't have any other major health issues beside my weight and thyroid

I just had my 1st appointment last week and I may be able to have my surgery in a month. In one appointment I met the surgeon, the nutritionist, the insurance lady and the coordinator. All clear on insurance. I have to have a EGD and get a letter from my primary care doctor. And then I have one visit with the nutritionist again and the psychiatrist and then they can schedule my surgery so hopefully in a month.

I've only got 3 more months (3 visits) and just need to find the time to go get my psych eval. It's really hard finding time to do it. They said it's like 2 hours long...that's not so easy with an 11 month old boy, a husband and a full time job. lol

See that's just it I will have appt #5 done by sept 15 which is the nurse and she will do the blood work and what other test that needs to be done..after that what other appt are there