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Surgery Date January 13th, I'm in New York long island. Starting pre op diet on the 6th.

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Tweety40 we are on same date :)

When do you start your pre op diet?

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I don't have to do a pre op diet as per my doctor. Not sure if that's something I should be happy about; i'd like to prepare my body for little food I'm afraid to have cravings post-op. What does your pre-op diet consist of and when do you start?

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I met my surgeon and waiting for approval of a sleep study and other tests. Don't know when my surgery will be. It may be March or April since I have to travel end of February. I wish I had started this process earlier so I'd have this done way before my trip. Oh well. Everything happens for a reason so I'll go with that

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well i finish my 6 month wait per insurance in feb and then assuming i have all the tests done i should get my date end of feb early to mid march i am supper excited and i am seeing a therapist to deal with my food issues she diagnosed me with bed so i am working thru that with her and my ptsd so hopefully by surgery time ill have a better head on my shoulders

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"MrsRP" same here I postponed my surgery till Jan because I'm traveling for New Year's and had paid for everything in advance. I can't wait to get over with surgery, yet I'm very nervous

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I'm scheduled for January 18. I got my approval letter in the mail and I didn't even know the doctor had submitted it. So happy holidays to me! I have to start my liquid diet right after the new year. So at least I can enjoy the holidays. I'm 5' 9" and 280.

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Mu husband is the one that is nervous I'm actually doing ok. I guess because he's nervous I'm trying to stay calm? Don't know. Got my psych eval appt for thu. I think is because this is moving so 'fast' he is concern. It's not fast at all but since he is not the one that has been doing the research for so long and I only talked to him about it about w month or so ago maybe it would seem fast for him

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I am probably going to have surgery some time mid- to end of January. I just had gastroendoscopy, psych eval, and bloodwork done, and waiting for the office to contact me for results. There is another mandatory appt with NUT before the surgery, and it's going to be mid January. I am keeping my fingers crossed!

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Soooooo jealous of all of you with their dates set!

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Hey guys ! I will be done with my support groups January 7, 2016 and the following Wednesday I will be going for my work up. After that it's a waiting game for the insurance. If all goes as planned I will be sleeved mid February! I'm so excited :) Anyone else getting sleeved around that time ?!

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I saw my dr on Dec 1 for my pre-op appointment. After about a week I called my insurance to see if they had any info. They said the Drs office hadn't submitted my info to them. Come to find out my pre certification process changed with my insurance on Dec 1st and the Drs submitted it to the wrong cert department. The old department couldn't transfer to the new company because of Hippa. Ugh. I frantically called my dr (I'm starting my pre-op diet on Monday 21st) for them to re-submit my info to the correct pre cert department. Thankfully less than 24hrs later I have been approved.. Shew!! Starting the pre-op diet being approved is going to make it so much easier (in my mind)

Woo hoo! Early Christmas for me

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