I would love to make some surgery buddies now so we can go through all the pre-op requirements together and stick through surgery and beyond. Anyone else already know their surgery will occur this summer?

My surgery is going to fall in the July or August time frame. Most of this is dependent upon checking all my surgeon's boxes, the rest is dependent upon my financing since I'm self-pay. I'll be getting the sleeve.

I love my surgeon and feel really lucky to have found him. So far the pre-op stuff has gone smoothly, but I am just at the beginning stages. I've scheduled all my evals and classes and attended my first weight loss class last week. I found it to be mildly helpful. It was certainly geared more toward those that hadn't already read through the surgery binder and/or those that had no clue what healthy eating consisted of. I'm hoping future classes focus more on the post-op eating.

My first visit with my PCP about this surgery is next week as that's the soonest I could get in to see her. I'm hoping she'll be supportive as my surgeon knew of her when I told him that's who I see. But if I have to find another PCP so be it.

My first dietician appt is next week and psych eval is the week after that. I only have to get these three meetings out of the way to schedule my surgery. So I'm anxious to get that done!

I'm excited to hear from others along the same timeline as me!

Today is my day. I’m a bundle of nerves. Surgery is at 9:45. Wish me luck!

@Bellasoo....you got this!!!! Good luck keep us posted on your recovery

@J san...you got this, keep us posted

On 07/12/2018 at 06:33, Bellasoo said:

Today is my day. I’m a bundle of nerves. Surgery is at 9:45. Wish me luck!

Best wishes! See you on the post op side! Keep us posted!

You will be just fine ??. Yes, please keep everyone posted!

Well just got call from hospital. Have to be there 830am not 10am. I guess I got bumped up a bit. Good sooner the better.

I just got my call as well and was moved up. I have to be at the hospital at 9:15 tomorrow. I am both excited and nervous. Ready to start this new chapter.


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Congratulations.. I'm scheduled for July 19th. I'm scared and nervous to.

Just need to vent for a second. I’m so frustrated.

My bariatric group requires 6 months of nutrition, psych evaluation and an exercise class. It won’t schedule surgery until after you’ve completed everything. As an attorney, it’s really hard to book things on my calendar with no real idea when the surgery would be. But I was told that surgery is often 4-6 weeks after the last nutrition appt. Mine was 6/25, so I was thinking late July to early August.

I finish the last NUT and she tells me they’ll submit it to insurance. But then they come back and say, oh there’s all this blood work you need to do too. I was frustrated because I could’ve already done that if they’d told me I needed to. Especially since some stuff they test for, like H-Pylori, takes time to treat.

I took the tests and thankfully everything was great...except my white blood cell count was high. Turns out I was diagnosed with a sinus infection the day after I went for the blood work. I just finished the antibiotics today, but the doc said I should be fine to be retested over this past weekend. I waited till Tuesday for good measure and it turns out it went up (only slightly), not down. My WBC was totally normal just in March, so it’s not that I “run high” as some say.

I’m sure it’s just that I’m still somewhat fighting the infection and it’ll go down soon but it’s surprising it hadn’t gone down at all. And it’s so frustrating that I now have to get tested again. But I don’t want to go too soon and risk it still being too high. So how long do I wait?

And I still don’t understand why I can’t get a date. Obviously if the WBC doesn’t come down, it’d have to get cancelled. But it’s totally screwing with my job and the people I work with to have no idea when this is happening.

Thanks for letting me vent.

@CTGirl08 I finally get to submit for approval Monday and I'm frustrated about tests as well. I don't know if it's my surgeon or my insurance who dictates the order of things. I don't get any labs, tests, endoscopy any of that until after I've gotten my approval, date and begin my pre op diet. I find that odd, why begin diet and set a date if the tests determine if it's going to happen. I totally understand and with your schedule that's just an added stress in the mix! Good luck, I hope it works out for you and fits in your timeline!

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@Chrisb428 I am in PA also what part are you in?

7 hours ago, Bellasoo said:

Today is my day. I’m a bundle of nerves. Surgery is at 9:45. Wish me luck!

Good Luck!!

Good Luck!!! Mines is scheduled for July 19th

57 minutes ago, pumpkinlocks said:

@Chrisb428 I am in PA also what part are you in?

I am in Bedford County, you?

Stewartstown PA

On 7/10/2018 at 3:12 PM, Kat0000 said:

Opps maybe not. Lol

lol August 13th, but that's basically the same as the 14th. We can still be twins.