Has anyone else gone through a COMPLETE Health Exam before the banding? I had to make sure my GYN exam and Colonoscopy were done before the doctor approved the banding! Anybody else had this issue before they were approved?

My doctor required a cardiology consult, psych consult, internist consult and pap smear with-in the last year. Additionally lab work, upper GI, chest x-ray, EKG pre-operatively. This was required even though I was a self pay.

they can definitely make you jump through some hoops. I didn't have to have colonoscopy, but ultrasound, ekg, gawd only knows how many blood tests testing for everything under the sun, psych eval. And every ins. co, every doctor, every hospital is different. My hospital at the last minute, like while I'm laying on the table getting ready to go into surgery tells me that I'm staying overnight because of sleep apnea, which I didn't mind but I had no ride home (85 miles) the next day, which surgeon resolved with social services in getting a taxi to take me home that regularly does medical transports. But yes they do require some form of health exam, and rightfully so.

So good luck

Trisha (banded June 1, '09)