Time..Find surgeon to actual Lapband surgery?

I'm just starting this journey. Think I have found the surgeon. How much time from doing the preliminaries to the actual event? Are we talking weeks, months? Just what am I going to be looking forward too?

Just depends on ur insurance.. My 1st consult was May 2007......And then surgery wasnt till last month.... So its on the standards of ur insurance.. Which you will most likely go over in ur meeting with the dietician and social worker... Depending on office... Every place is different... Just dont get frustrated with it... And keep to it .. What they want.. You will get it .. When the time is right.

you are most likely taking months. now i didnt have lapband but from the day i talked to dr about it, to the day i went under the knife took 6 months,

It really does on your insurance. I first got my referral to my surgeon in late july and my surgery was march 13th. i know that is a long time but there was some issue with my insurances contract with the hospital. i am sure yours will be much sooner then that. also keep in mind it depends on your surgeon too. I know that one of the surgeons at my doctors office was booked months in advanced.

Wow, you guys are lucky!! Here, in Canada, the wait time is so long!! For so very many of the dr's that do the surgery, you have to wait YEARS for the initial consult!! I was very, very lucky to find one that I only had to wait a couple months for. (appt this Friday, the 25th!!!) By the time that I actually have the surgery, it might even be 2009 or 10!!! I am praying for a speedy process as I have been waiting thru different doctors for years!! Something always seems to happen and I was denied "out of country" approval to have it done in the states (as your waiting times are SO MUCH SHORTER!). I guess that I just didn't meet the criteria! Good luck to you, and remember, it could be worse, you could be in Canada and have to wait over a year!! Anita