Everyone seems to be super excited when they get their surgery date. My question is: "seminar to surgery date":...how long am I looking at??? I am not asking for how long my wait will/might actually be:smile2:. But if it goes good or bad (insurance, psych eval ect.)..just wanting you all to throw your experiences (time frames) at me...thanx

Edited August 7, 200917 yr by mackie0601

The place I am thinking of going says if you get everything in right away surgery should be within 8 weeks unless there are insurance issues.

Mine was 1 month. Many are longer. Some are shorter.

I began researching the surgery quite some time ago. I attended a seminar 7/14, had appt. with surgeon 7/31. Would have been sooner if he hadn't taken a vacation...how rude :wink:. Did pre-op testing 8/3. Could have had surgery 8/20 but had a conflict. Now I'm scheduled for the end of the month. I'm self-pay and that always moves more quickly if you so desire. I was able to choose when surgery would work best for me. Good luck!!

TPG

I started researching the procedure in late-April/May timeframe. I had my first one-on-one session on June 17th (I opted not to do the group session) and I just had my surgery today. Thats 50 days from first session til now. Its important to know that I paid for the procedure out of pocket--my insurance would not cover it.

My consult/psych eval was on 8/8/2008, I was also scheduled that day for surgery 10/6/2009. I was self pay, so that helped things out alot, dealing with insurance will take longer. You doc may be able to help expidite the insurance process.

Orientation on 12/12/08

Pysch appoint 1/27/09

Surgeon appointment 1/27/09 (lose 12 pounds/goal weight)

Case Manager appointment 2/9/09

Pre Op labs 2/9/09

Pre op classes 4/9/09

PHysical 4/9/09

Surgeon appt 4/9/09

Pre op labs 4/10/09

Surgury on 4/13/09

4 MONTHS from start to finish

Kaiser insurance.

Diet and weight loss required before surgery

Quick and easy process but lots of hoops

Self Pay

1st appt Apr 27, 2009

Surgery Date August 20, 2009

Not too bad!

Jason

Mine has been a long time, but I think thats more to do with my surgeon being in high demand, and always booked out at least 2 months in advance for anything. I first called about the seminar in January, but couldn't get into one for 3 months.

From the date of the seminar to the surgery (on the 31st) has been about 6 months. Only about 2-3 months of that has been meeting requirements for the surgery though, the rest has simply been waiting for available appointments. I'm impatient by nature, so I think the waiting has been the hardest part of all this so far.

So 9 months in total between the day I called for the seminar, to the date of the surgery.

I started this process in Dec of 08 with my PCP. I saw the surgeon for the first time Feb 09. He then gave me a battery of things he wanted me to do...

blood work

chest x-ray

doppler study of legs and abdomen

gyno

cardio

pulmonology

sleep study

pft

nutritionist

& 6 months worth of weights from PCP (so monthly visits with the PCP)

I am going back for my pre-op consult with the surgeon on Wednesday the 12th... and then they will submit it to insurance...

it normally takes about 2 weeks to get the results back... so hopefully im looking at the end of august!

so for me it took about 9months

heyhey

I went to the seminar June 23rd.... Surgeon apt June 30th.. sleep study July 5th...Nutritionist July 14th.. Phychologist July29th.. Pre-op apt and Pre-admissions testing August 5th.. Approval for Surgery August 6th from insurance... Surgery Schedule for August 11th! So it was about 7 weeks for me.

I was self pay so it didn't take that long:

Seminar: July 21 '09

Consult appts: July 29th '09

Surgery: August 6th '09

So just a little over 2 weeks from start to finish.