Pre-Admission Testing

[Izuri 428]

I am going to my pre-admission testing appointment on Tuesday. Due to insurance ending and having to move my surgery up to make sure it's covered, my process of getting the surgery has been a little shorter, so there will only be two days between pre-admission testing and my surgery. I've read through what other people from my bariatric clinic had done during PAT and it sounds like I will be having an EKG, Chest X-ray, Blood work, and Gallbladder ultrasound. I was just curious, has anyone had anything come up on these pre-admission tests that has set them back for their surgery?

I'm super excited, but I'm trying to curb my enthusiasm a little because I know that I still have to get the green light from all these tests (And with good reason, I wouldn't want to head into surgery when I have an undiscovered health problem). I have not had any health problems and I'm fairly young (25) so my doctor has already told me that he doesn't anticipate any issues, but I'm just kind of curious how this went for others. I have already gotten the time off work, and I'm hoping that I get the clean bill of health to go ahead.

[milkD 37]

Hey izuri. I'm fairly healthy with no co-morbities from my weight except my heart rate is always elevated so I failed the EKG and had to have a stress test. Luckily it came back fine.

I'm not 100% sure but anything off with the gallbladder woul only lead to you taking pills to prevent stones or removing it during surgery. I can't imagine anything being bad from the X-ray or blood work either so I'm sure you'll do fine.