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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

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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.

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

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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!!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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