Band "season" ?

[JenWillwin 0]

I think March is busiest month for lap band surgeons because people really start thinking about this surgery after the weight gain during the holidays and the New Year's Resolutions. By March, most testing and insurance companies have already given the ok and the surgery is done.

[Tricia K. 0]

I was also a self-pay patient. I went in for my first consult on July 21, 2005, had all my pre-surgery testing completed for my surgeon's review within a few weeks and then my surgery was scheduled for August 30, 2005. Unfortunately, Hurricane Katrina had other plans (I live an hour northwest of New Orleans) so, naturally, I didn't have surgery on my original scheduled date. I was banded 2 1/2 weeks later, on September 16, 2005.

[S@ssen@ch 745]

Do any of us really "plan" on a band time. I mean, I got banded when my insurance approved and when my doctor fit me in the schedule. I suppose if I were self pay, I could have had a little more control over these things. But you are still at the mercy of the doctor's schedule.