Taking a survey: How long from the first seen

So here is the survey

How long did you have to wait from the time that you started the process of WLS till you had the surgery.

I'd say I started the process with my first appointment with my surgeon.  That's the first thing I did, was schedule an appointment with a surgeon.  And I had surgery about four months later.

I have a 6 month wait. I have blue cross/blue shield. So this winter God providing I will have my surgery. The six month wait has been good though..

Because i have met with the nutrishinist  and had a few appts. with the psyche person. So there you go. All part of the process. I am actually getting really excited and looking forward to my surgery. Good luck to you and keep us posted.

Robin

I have medicare and it took me 3 mos

Less than 3 weeks from Googling weight loss surgery to being in the OR.   That was 10 years ago though - not quite as popular as it is now!

I started the process in March, and am scheduled for RNY on Monday (9/8). My insurance required 3 months supervised weight loss, an extra month for approval from the insurance company, then a month for thr surgeon appt, and 3 weeks to schedule surgery. 

I started at a seminar back in April. I am working on my 5th month of  physician documented weight loss and have one more to go.

I have finished everything else except for the nutrition class which is also is needed per insurance.

My hope is to have approval by mid  November. 

I went to an introduction seminar in November. And call the office after the holidays were over and I had my first appointment on January 20th, 2014 and i had to wait 3 months for insurance and i was on the operating table on May 20th, 2012. So it was 4 months from my first class until the day of my surgery. My only regret was not setting up an appointment right after the seminar so i would of had the surgery before. How much time are you looking at until your surgery?

I went for an information meeting in March, had first appointment at the end of March, was cleared two weeks later with approval, but had to wait until June because I am a teacher and had already taken 3 weeks off for a different surgery in February. My insurance did not require any supervised weight loss programs (but I had already done 7 years of weigh****chers before that). I am a little bit of a different case because of a rare brain disease and this being something my neurosurgeon wanted. It all depends on your insurance. My husband's insurance requires 6 months of supervised weight loss program before approval.

One year exactly, but could have been shorter if I'd hustled.