So with Lapband as my surgery of choice, I decided to go to one of those seminars on WLS. Dr. Atkinson here in Vegas had a presentation. I went... everything seemed fine to me, I did my labs and went in to speak with their pyschologist. She wouldn't let me do the surgery. She says I have issues with my mother that need to be fixed before I should undertake the procedure. Basically, I put my mother's needs before my own. In theory, this could be a bad thing. But my mom puts my needs before hers too, so we are both looking out for each other. Anyway, the shrink says 6 months of therapy and then I can petition for reevaluation.

Excuse me but 6 months of therapy won't change something I don't want to change... so I have to look for other options.

I had similar issues thats why im paying cash and leaving the country for surgery. the dr. doing mine has done 6000 lap-bands and is well known. let me know if you want details. It more than 75% cheaper than in the states and i got approved and booked within 3 weeks and having the surgery on june 25th

I only had to have a one hour session with a therapist, not a pyschologist...and it was my choice so I picked someone on my insurance plan. But, I am self-pay too.

wow my psyc eval was like 15 min. He just wanted to make sure that i wasn't depressed and felt that if i lost a bunch of weight, everything would be right in the world LOL...Sorry to hear that you got denied