From your orientation to surgery date: how long did it take? It's taken me 4 months simply from orientation to consultation... I hope to leave my job by the end of July but can't if I'm in the middle of getting approved for surgery.

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Had my first consult mid-July 2016 and surgery is 3-6-17. Some of my delay was due to doctors office being very slow to submit to insurance. I made sure all my consults were done by November in case any follow ups were needed.

2 weeks self pay

2 years and a bit
BigBodyBombFace
Oct 16 2015 to jan 30 2017....but i also live in canada (ontario)
BigBodyBombFace

Was that from when you were refered or you consultation?

November 2015-December 2016 start to finish. 13 months


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First visit with dr 1/5/17 , couple visits nutritionist Jan/Feb then once with Surgery coordinator 3/3/17 papers filed with Insurance and was approved the next day by BCBS and April 12 2017 is day of surgery pretty fast was planning on summertime at least but sooner is better lighter before get hot is great !

First appointment was a seminar 6/1/16, approved March 2017,chose to wait till April 4th for surgery ( became American citizen March 9th )

14 months since first doc visit to the surgery. I'm due in June on the 16th.

Very excited.

Eleven months, but that was because I wanted to have surgery during the summer. Otherwise it would have been about nine months

6 months and i had to go to monthly classes with the dietician.

On 1/4/2017 at 9:21 PM, highfunctioningfatman said:

About 3 seconds. So much easier being self pay! No headaches.

I concur! In & out.

A little under 6 months.

From my actual first orientation to when I had the surgery it was over 7 years, but from the last orientation until surgery it was about 7 months (July 2016 to February 2017).

First orientation 7/2017 and due for surgury 10/19/2017.

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Started in Feb 2017 was told I would most likely be sleeved in Jan 2018, however hospital was becoming out of network in Oct so was sleeved on 9/25.

5'10 Sleeved 9/25/17 HW: 309 SW: 278
CW: 253 GW: 190

First orientation was 7/12/17 and the operation took place 10/20/17. Pretty quick.