I just had my 3 month post op follow up with my doctor and things are going really well. I've lost over 75 lbs. since surgery with little or no problems, I am wondering if any of the vets encountered any setbacks/problems during the 3-6 month time frame. I made my 6 month appointment but am wondering how important it is to keep it. The reason I ask, is that my surgery was self pay and my follow ups are no longer covered by my self pay payment. I need to pay out of pocket for all future visits with the surgeon. I am hoping I can just transfer to my PCP and have insurance cover the visits. It was hard enough paying for the surgery so I don't want to keep paying out of pocket. Any thoughts are feedback anyone can give would be much appreciated.

I'm far from a vet (especially since we're not even supposed to post in this forum unless we're over a year removed from surgery), however...

I actually had my doc cancel my 6 month appointment. I got my blood work done and then about 3 days later received an email that unless I had specific concerns there was no need to come in for my appointment.

We fired or bariatric surgeon @ 3 mo post op (last month) and switched to our pcp. Unfortunately he doesn't exactly know when to do the testing. I read somewhere we are supposed to get bw done every 6 months for the rest of our lives but that seems a bit too much to me, especially if it's constantly good. It's pricey too!

I fired my doc because he actually stop treating me as a patient, instead he treated me as someone he could preach his religious believes on. I am not joking, he even had his bible far too many times. My insurance was for medical treatment not religious treatment.

I started using my PCM for check ups and it's gone well.

But I would suggest you discuss this with you PCM before you do this. They may not feel comfortable with the switch, or they could be ok with it. Just discuss it with them 1st