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I'm just worried about making the wrong decision... Like what if something bad happens during surgery? Or even after surgery when I get back home. It's mainly stuff with having the sleeve that's worrying me. I've read a few posts where some people feel like they did it for nothing because they aren't losing much weight at all.

I think what scares me the most is just the Unknown. I don't know what to expect really. I've never been outside the US before so I'm kind of freaking out about it. Not so much right now, but come March I'm going to be a big ball of anxiety I'm sure

I was like you, I didn't see many comments on Lopez in the beginning when I joined this site so I wasn't even considering him at first. But as I did my research, and I talked with a lady on here who went with Lopez, she has said nothing but wonderful things about him. For his price and experience, I'm going with him.

I'm going March 10th-15th. I picked Lopez because I haven't read any complaints about him, my coordinator says he has done over 3,500 sleeves and has never had a leak, plus he has his wife who is also a great surgeon. Garcia is part of his team as well. I've heard good things about Garcia too though!

Yeah, I faxed them over last Thursday I think and haven't heard anything back yet. I don't want to constantly annoy Janese about everything because I feel like I'm emailing her too much or something. Lol I just get excited and start thinking of all kinds of stuff.

I'm seeing a lot more Ariel Ortiz patients here lately!

That's what it did to me! You have to print it out, I think it's 6 pages, fill it out and fax it over. Janese said she sent mine to Dr. Lopez for review and she would get back to me after he looks over it. That's been a few days back or so.

Did you already fill out your paperwork and send it in? Or are you waiting until Friday? Just wondering how things are coming along on your end

I've heard amazing things about Aceves and Alvarez! I haven't heard not even one bad comment on either one of them!

I can relate to what you're saying! I'm so sick of diets, diet pills, giving up, feeling like a failure, feeling like I'm not good enough. My self esteem has suffered being overweight. I made this decision because I'm over it! I'm ready to make these changes in my life so I can be healthy and stop feeling so down about myself

My biggest fear is something going wrong during the surgery and I die... Second, it's having extremely loose skin that flaps around everywhere, third, it's losing all of my hair and last but not least its getting kidnapped in Tijuana... Can we say hypochondriac much? Lol

I'm going in March for Spring Break lol and I live in Texas.

That link is just a story I ran across about someone regretting bypass surgery, and he talks about how people with certain personality traits aren't good candidates for the surgery. It hasn't changed my mind at all, but just thought I would share since you were looking for similar stories

http://m.obesityhelp.com/forums/any_wls_regrets/4392306/PLEASE-READ-BEFORE-YOU-HAVE-GB/

People that say "Supposebly" instead of "Supposedly" My Nanny calls her wrist a "risk" Lol

Who did you book your flight through? Any recommendations for the cheapest way to fly? Orbitz? Priceline? Thanks...

How far in advance did everyone book them? I'm having surgery in March, so would it be best to wait a couple of months until I booked them? Or the sooner the better?

That's the way I see it too!! My Mom is just thinking of any and every little thing she can to try and get me to back out of it and I'm not going to!

I'm pre-op but wanted to post here to get advice from others that are post-op. I just recently told my family that I will be traveling to Mexico in March to get my gastric sleeve surgery. It seems like its a never ending argument with my Mother. She doesn't understand why I can't "just ride the exercise bike and diet." for like the hundredth time. She also wants to know, what if I so happen to need that portion of my stomach they are going to remove years down the road. She's just asking all kinds of random things that I don't know what to tell her really. Is there a lot of follow up care with the sleeve? I know that I have to get blood panels done to check protein levels and all that, but other than that what else is there?

Right. I guess I just want them to see it from my point of view. I told my Mom that I didn't really care what everyone else thought about it, I'm doing it for ME and to better my health. Her reply was "yeah, I hope it betters your health too, but what are you going to do if you need your stomach years down the road?" I told her I was going to have more problems being overweight than if I go through with this. Then she tells me that I'm being an influence on my 12 year old overweight sister. Ugh. She doesn't want her to think she can get however big and run to Mx for surgery. Which that little comment pissed me off!

It's a never ending battle with my family. They just don't understand. They just think I'm taking the easy way out and I've tried explaining its actually harder to go through with this. I have to completely change my relationship with food, and I have to exercise. They think I'm just running to Mexico, getting my stomach cut out and magically Im skinny with no effort at all. I'm beginning to get a little irritated with them all...

You got a round trip ticket for that? Or a one way? That is a good deal!

Mimi I'm flying Houston to San Diego. I want a non stop flight. I'm looking now at all my options