How frusrating for you to not know an approximate time frame. As others have said every doctor and insurance is different. My first step was a seminar and that was Jan 12th 2009 and my surgery was April 21st 2009. During those months I had all sorts of testing, Stress Test, EKG, Sleep Study, Lab work of course and an Echocardiogram, also the psych eval and the appointment with the nutrientists. It was appointments all the time. I certainly don't know if you will be required to go through all of that or not but there is a chance, I also had to have a blood clot filter inserted to protect me from blood clots that can occur with surgeries on over weight patients.
Some things that I did to prepare myself for after surgery ( at my psych doctors recommendations) and ended up being greatly helpful, If you don't already drink 64 ounces of water a day start doing so now, you are going to have to get use to it after surgery, so doing it before hand is greatly helpful, also it was a great help to me for find protein supplements that I liked and get started on those, I stopped eating breakfast and started having protein shakes instead, and the weight loss started there. It was good training. However, since you were already on a liquid diet you perhaps already have the protein shake thing down.
Also, even though it sounds like at this point your doctor hasn't recommended it something that my surgeon required of us before surgery was to attend a surgery weight loss support group meeting and I am so glad that I did, talking with many different people who had already had the procedure and people that were waiting to have it was so wonderful and really made me feel more comfortable and prepared for surgery. I would highly recommend it.
Good luck and for your sake I hope that your wait for surgery isn't long, I know that the time before surgery seems so long and stressful, you just want to see that light at the end of the tunnel, the light that tells you weight loss is just ahead. It will come.
Good luck
Sandy
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