Duane_77

I was sleeved on May 16th and after getting out of the hospital I was readmitted into the hospital with post op Pnemonia, then after I was released out of the hospital 2 days later i was home for about 3 days and I noticed a severe pain in my calf like a charlie horse. I thought I was being paranoid and wanted to stay away from docs and hospitals for awhile after spending about a week in one but the pain in my leg kept getting worse and after getting harassed by my wife I went to the ER and they told me I had a DVT (blood clot). So I was admitted again and put on warafin for at least 6 months and had to give myself Loveanox injections into my stomach for a week. Lastly, about a week after my last incident I was feeling sick and was running a temperature and passed out, my wife called the ambulance and was taken to the hospital and my Pnemonia was back mixed in with me being a lil dehydrated which caused me to pass out, also I guess my warafin can cause some light headedness which might of also contributed to it. So needless to say another 3 days in the hospital and tons of medicine I'm finally home. 3 weeks post op I'm down 30 pounds but I honestly got to say with everything I've gone through I'm not sure I would do it all over again just for a 30 pound weight loss. So frustrating for me not to mention all the pain & worry I've put the rest of my family through.

I'm new to this site but looking through several posts I see that people go down south of the border to have the VSG done, is there a reason for this? Or is it strictly because of costs that people are going there.

So let me ask you this... If your insurance would have covered this procedure would you still have looked to Mexico? I guess you just hear horror stories about medical procedures going bad down there, so just curious. I will be having my procedure done by Dr. Jamaal at the University of Iowa... They claim to be the birth place of baratric surgery, so hopefully everything goes as planned.