  | 
06-30-2009, 05:36 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Near Buffalo NY
Posts: 281
Weight Statistics April 29,2009 Start Date:
November 11, 2009 Surgery Date:
5' 1"
Height:
230 lb Start Weight:
102 lb Current Weight:
120 lb Goal Weight:
128 lb Weight Loss:
-18 lb Lb Left to Lose:
55.652173913 % % Lost:
A year Goal Date:
Body Mass Index43.4533727493 BMI Start:
19.2706261758 BMI Current:
22.6713249127 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
 |  How Soon after the psych eval did you get your surgery date?
Hi
Sorry about the long title 
I have my psych eval scheduled for July 9th and my nutritionist seemed to indicate that the surgery wasn't too far in the future anymore. 
I'm curious as to how soon after the psych eval others were cleared for surgery.
I have medicare and my surgeon said that medicare was one of the easiest insurances to get approval from so...should I be getting nervous cause the surgery is closer than I thought it would be?  | 
|  |  | Weight Loss Surgery Insurance | | | |
|
| |
06-30-2009, 08:51 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: No. Los Angeles County, CA
Posts: 2,849
Weight Statistics 4.29.08 RNY Surgery Date:
5' 8"
Height:
301 lb Start Weight:
168 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
133 lb Weight Loss:
-2 lb Lb Left to Lose:
44.1860465116 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index45.7618944637 BMI Start:
25.5415224913 BMI Current:
25.8455882353 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
|
It is totally up to the protocol at your surgeon's office. My surgeon called me for a date the next day...the other guy in the area has a one MONTH wait from the psych to surgery.
Hang in there.
__________________
Judijo 
"Burning out this fuse out here alone" Surgery 4.29.08
11-29-08: Down 90 lbs. Total cholesterol is under 200 for the first time in my adult life!
1.11.09: 100 lbs down! Century Club! WHOO HOO! 
7.10.09 GOL! GOL! GOLGOLGOLGOLGOL! GGGGOOOOLLL!
1.10.10 Still at goal.
2.21.12 up a bit. Back on track, I hope. 
310/176/<164
Starting weight: beginning of nutrition classes, August, 2007 | |
| | |
06-30-2009, 08:56 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Floyd County Virginia
Posts: 9,445
Weight Statistics September 19th 2007 Start Date:
September 19th 2007 June 18,2012 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
363 lb Start Weight:
226 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
137 lb Weight Loss:
56 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.741046832 % % Lost:
When I get there again Goal Date:
Body Mass Index52.0793877551 BMI Start:
32.4240816327 BMI Current:
24.3897959184 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
|
Ditto on what Judy Jo said. That is exactly what it depends on.
__________________ Remember Tough times never last Tough people do... This Ribbon is for our Lady Lisa and all the women that fight this ugly disease. RIP Jerry my friend
| |
| | |
06-30-2009, 09:15 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 8,641
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
280 lb Start Weight:
172 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.5714285714 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.3442554085 BMI Start:
25.3971854652 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
|
My psych eval was not the last thing on the checklist, so the date didn't hang on it. I was just punching things on my ticket, and the eval was easier than the cardiac stress test. Once I got everything complete, the office submitted for approval, it came the next day, I scheduled my date that same day.
Your mileage will vary depending on what you have yet to finish, which insurance company you have, how busy your doctor is, holiday schedules, phases of the moon, and a host of other relevant and irrelevant factors. Asking about others' experience is interesting, but don't base your life in Buffalo on what others have done in LA, Virginia or Minnesota!
CT
__________________ da perfesser
*******************
Dare to live your dream!!
If you want to be healthy for life, do for life the things that get you healthy!! Living healthy takes work. Dying fat is easy!! "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed, but that our capacity to do has increased." - HJ Grant
"Do, or do not. There is no try!" - Yoda
| |
| | |
07-01-2009, 07:30 AM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Big Loser
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tropical South Texas
Posts: 111
Weight Statistics All my life I've been trying! Start Date:
July 7th, 2009 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
289 lb Start Weight:
148 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
141 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
48.7889273356 % % Lost:
Summer 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index46.6407254362 BMI Start:
23.8852157943 BMI Current:
25.8218549128 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
|
So true Perfessor. It's amazing what the different criteria is. Even with the same doc! Insurance companies rule the roost. I saw a video from the President of The Bariatric Assoc. who commented that because by-pass surgery has gotten so much safer and is so effective more and more people are going for it. The insurance companies are putting as many barriers as they can in the form of more tests, stricter diets, roadblocks of any kind to try to discourage the fainthearted from the surgery. Just knocking off a few here or there is worth it to them....the fools!
A couple (friends & neighbors) went thru by-pass a year ago with the same doc I am seeing. They had 2 months from initial visit to surgery. Their psych eval. was 200 questions, mostly about thoughts of suicide. They each also had a stress test, 1 visit with a dietician. It took them 2 months, my journey has been 6 months. I had no stress test, 4 dietician visits, a 2 minute psych eval with the doctor asking and answering the few questions himself. "You don't think of suicide, do you? Of course, you don't".
Many of the required test are also based on your health, your age, etc.
Don't worry ahead of time how long the process will take. The time will be passing whether you are working thru these requirements or not. At least by the end you will have accomplished something. But I know..waiting is the hardest part. Think of it as character building.
__________________  | |
| | |
07-01-2009, 09:19 AM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 8,641
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
280 lb Start Weight:
172 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.5714285714 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.3442554085 BMI Start:
25.3971854652 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
|
I think it's good that there is a screening process in place to separate the fad dieters from those with the discipline to make this work. We all know folks who can't handle the rigors of low-carb through induction, or fall off the WW wagon after a week. If they can't handle the "easy" ways to lose weight, they have no business at all considering WLS! My stepsister is a classic example of this. She's never found a homeless calorie she couldn't put up for a week! I think she would fail miserably trying it our way, even though she and her husband desperately need it.
So even though the insurance companies have erected this barrier guarding WLS and making it harder, I think that has a lot to do with the increasing success rates now compared to 10 years ago.
As for differing requirements - I had to have a cardiac stress test, my wife didn't. She had been through several major surgeries in the year prior to her surgery, so they figured if she didn't die on the table then, the odds were in her favor that she wouldn't this time either. I didn't need a sleep study, she did. I was already hooked up with a CPAP. Turns out she needed one. My psych eval was a half hour of a whole lot of not much. Hers was a two-visit, rather involved deal. I needed three months of nut visits, she needed six. Same insurance company and policy, same surgeon, but I was 15 months ahead of her.
When they set up the hoops, start jumping. When they light the last few on fire, keep jumping!! Only the "worthy" survive the process.
CT
__________________ da perfesser
*******************
Dare to live your dream!!
If you want to be healthy for life, do for life the things that get you healthy!! Living healthy takes work. Dying fat is easy!! "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed, but that our capacity to do has increased." - HJ Grant
"Do, or do not. There is no try!" - Yoda
| |
| | |
07-01-2009, 03:00 PM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central Virginia
Posts: 2,952
Weight Statistics 4/30/2007 Start Date:
9/5/07 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
233 lb Start Weight:
127 lb Current Weight:
125 lb Goal Weight:
106 lb Weight Loss:
2 lb Lb Left to Lose:
45.4935622318 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index39.9899902344 BMI Start:
21.7971191406 BMI Current:
21.4538574219 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
|
My psych eval was just one of the hoops. I filled out a questionaire and then spent about a half hour talking to a very nice lady. But I had other hoops to go through before they would submit my paperwork and I don't remember how long after it was.
My biggest hang up was having to have an EGD to see if I had ulcers since I had H. Pylori.
__________________
Highest 233, Lowest 122, Current 127
| |
| | |
07-12-2009, 06:02 PM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Near Buffalo NY
Posts: 281
Weight Statistics April 29,2009 Start Date:
November 11, 2009 Surgery Date:
5' 1"
Height:
230 lb Start Weight:
102 lb Current Weight:
120 lb Goal Weight:
128 lb Weight Loss:
-18 lb Lb Left to Lose:
55.652173913 % % Lost:
A year Goal Date:
Body Mass Index43.4533727493 BMI Start:
19.2706261758 BMI Current:
22.6713249127 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perfesser  My psych eval was not the last thing on the checklist, so the date didn't hang on it. I was just punching things on my ticket, and the eval was easier than the cardiac stress test. Once I got everything complete, the office submitted for approval, it came the next day, I scheduled my date that same day.
Your mileage will vary depending on what you have yet to finish, which insurance company you have, how busy your doctor is, holiday schedules, phases of the moon, and a host of other relevant and irrelevant factors. Asking about others' experience is interesting, but don't base your life in Buffalo on what others have done in LA, Virginia or Minnesota!
CT | HI
I've already had the stress test and the heart consoltation(sp). I don't have a gall bladder or an appendix so that doesn't factor into it. I've had 2 nutrition appointments and another one this month...which should be the last one! (and I've lost 22 pounds)  .
I was supposed to have my psych evaluation on the 9 of this month but the dr cancelled so it's next Thursday!
After that ...the only thing I believe I have left is: the meeting with the surgeon.
I have medicare and have started the proceedings to get on medicaid!  | |
| | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | | | |
