Psych Eval?

[VivaDiva01 53]

I have not received a surgery date yet. My date will be contingent upon the psych evaluation by the psychologist. Unfortunately my appointment is not until July 25. I really want to know how long it takes for the psychologist to make his assessment and send the recommendation letter to my surgeon's office?

Here's my slightly unfortunate story:

I started this journey in October of last year and the surgeon's office told me that my insurance required that I had to do six months of weight loss attempts with a primary care physician (PCP), I had to had a recommendation letter from the PCP, two nutrition classes lectured by the resident nutritionist, a cardiac test, an upper GI test, and a psych evaluation by a psychologist or a psychiatrist. Since I had to wait six months anyway because of the PCP weight loss attempts, I decided to take that time to really dig deep and figure out how I got to this weight and how I can make changes to never get back her again, so I decided to work with a psychiatrist and a therapist ( both at the same office and both AWESOME. BTW). Well, I managed to get everything done, I thought....until the patient advocate at the surgeons office sent me an email saying that she received everything that was needed BUT the psychiatrist faxed her and evaluation that consisted of ONE SENTENCE. WTH? So, I called and called the office because the psychiatrist was out of the office for a week and the finally the nurse told me that my psychiatrist does not do psych evaluations for weight loss surgery and that I would have to see a psychologist instead. And now I'm back at square one...lol! My life!!!!

[jody521 7]

Dont give up the insurance company tried to push me around took 8 months got my surgery date last night..so excited and scared lol

[VivaDiva01 53]

Dont give up the insurance company tried to push me around took 8 months got my surgery date last night..so excited and scared lol

Congrats!!!! I can't wait to be in ur shoes!!!!