I was given an outline of the steps during the seminar I attended and recently saw my doctor for the referral letter and have an appointment to see the psychologist this week. But when I was with my doctor he called the surgeons office and they were talking about tests that I would need done later? :thumbup: Nothing they gave out at the seminar talks about these tests - can anyone tell me what tests they are and where along the "steps" the come in to play? :crying:

Thanks,

Robin

I haven't been banded yet, but I'm on deck for Wed. 26th. I had to have a pre op physical with a chest x ray, EKG, a Upper GI, a abdominal ultrasound, Arterial Blood Gas screen, a regular blood test, urinanalysis (sp?) Psych Evaluation and 2 sleep studies. I wound up getting the cpap machine too.

Tomorrow is the last pre op visit with all the paperwork signing, then it's off to the races...

Hope all goes well

Sg.

Edited March 24, 200818 yr by ss383nova

After a general seminar which was with an audience of about 30 people we were scheduled for a smaller "class" of about 8 people with the NP for the practice.

There we were given packets with our individual information in them and the tests required for each of us.

I have a post here about what they were.

From memory they are:

Psych eval

Cardiac eval (stress test for some)

GI eval & EGD

Pulmonology eval and PFTs & sleep study

Venous Duplex

Blood panel

Abdominal Sono

Dr.s eval and letter of necessity

Meeting with Surgeon with family/support member

Attend a support group

I think thats it. I'll look for the post.

OH, and the biggie....the SIX month Dr supervised diet with weight tracking.