From The first visit with your PCP to Your banding day How long did the process take?:ranger:

For me it was just under three months.

seminar in Jan.......... insurance approve by Jan 28, surgery scheduled for April 26...

Self pay the wait would of been 2-3 weeks, because I could of had it done at the doctors hospital

It took me about 8 weeks.

But live in nZ, and doc is 10 mins up road plus I was self pay!

Cheers Amourette:D

It took me 5 months. It seemed longer.

For me it was 7 months. I needed to do six months worth of supervised diet for my insurance to cover it, so I did that December - May. I was scheduled for surgery in June.

Sixteen months. Had to do twelve month MD supervised diet, got denied the first time they applied because I hadn't lost the 5% of my excess weight that was required. Then had to wait to get the new AP band.

About 30 days. Things just worked out

Orientation/Seminar on May 30th and surgery on June 18th could of had it sooner but I had to do some presentations for work so had to reschedule for later time. I was self pay though.

No insurance coverage for the procedure, so no PCP visit. Since I was self-pay, they were able to get me booked very quickly. I went to my seminar on June 5th and had the surgery for my band on June 15th...10 days!!!

:faint:It took me from November of 2005 until now to get things rolling ... mostly insurance related and waiting til they approved it!

I had surgery in Mexico. Called on 11/30, scheduled for 12/6.