CONSULTATION

[taweedeegirl 68]

I wanted to know what happens at a consultation .. will they say I need to lose more weight. or put me in a diet.. or best scenario .. get a surgery date!!

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I don't know. That is why you have a consultation: so your surgeon can determine what needs to happen in order for you to have surgery. Yo our surgeon may ask you to lose weight or he or she may not.

[wildmiss71 0]

When you first get there, they weigh you and check your height. Then later when you talk you the actual doctor, he will go over your insurance requirements and then you schedule your psychological exam. After you've completed that exam, you wait for insurance approval, then the doctors office will contact you to set up your surgery date.

[Sajijoma 1,324]

Most of what happens will depend on insurance requirements. For me, at my first appt, I was weighed, we went over diet history, I talked to the NUT and had to give a rough accounting of my daily eating habits-don't worry, a crappy diet is a good thing because it shows that you need help. Then after that, we talked about weight loss goals and which surgeries would be a good choice. When I left, they pulled my insurance info and told me I would be doing the 90 day program(which scares the crap out of me because I had already wrapped myself up in the idea of a 6 month supervised diet). It was all pretty straight forward for me. 90 days, 4 NUT visits, 1 psych eval, no weight gain and we worked on little changes to make to my diet and exercise at each NUT visit, and then there was a class on life post surgery as far as eating and Vitamins etc and that was it! I had my surgery 11/9 and so far so good!