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How exciting. Mine is the 29th and I am so anxious. I want to do it already. Best of luck

Hi everyone and good luck. I am having my surgery on the 29th in Mexico and I am so excited cant wait.

First I want to thank you all for posting your stories. I would have never decided to do this without hearing first hand accounts. I have lurked for months. Okay I have decided to go with Dr Kelly and want to schedule it for the 1st wk of Dec. Hubby gets back from an out of state trip the day before thanksgiving and I need him here to care for the kids. Now I have a question: if I schedule the surgery for a friday, I would get to San Diego on Thursday (coming from El Paso, TX) than likey. By when do you think I will be well enough to fly home?? YOu think Sunday I should be okay or have to wait until monday? I am not scared. I heal extremelly well. When I had my daughter I had a csection on monday morning, was walking before the end of the day and was released the next day. My only issue is when they knock me out I get nauseous coming back up but I am sure they will take care of that. So you think by sunday I should fly home or plan for monday?? I am just asking because we have to coordinate schedules and etc. Thank you so much.

I heard about Dr Almanza and how he is cheaper so I stayed up way too late reading about him last night and this is what I found out: 1. I speak Spanish also so I should have no issue communicating. 2. I don't mind that its in a shopping center. S Florida and Houston has that a lot its very common. 3. I don't even mind that its a recovery house and you got to share with other people. 4. I know he is very experienced and does at least 140 surgeries a month. The things I am having an issue getting over : 1. He only stapples.No sutures. From what I understand the sutures are better. 2. Beginning of the year he was having a problem with lots of people getting infection. 3. At the recovery house, I will have to wait a while to get my medicine and considering I get extremely nauseous and itchy because of anesthesia, I am expecting a horrible time. So here I sit. I have no clue what to do!!

Thank you so much for the responses guys but I wont be able to do with Dr Kelly. Man I get my husband to agree work with his schedule, we will put dd in school and ds in aftercare for the week, I work through everything and now I won't be able to do with the Dr I want because of money. I got a quote from him for $5700 plus a plane ticket takes me to $6000. My budget is only $5k. No way I can do it now. I just want to cry

I am researching where I want to do the gastric sleeve since I am self pay. I have had a couple doctors quote me anywhere between 11k and 15k here in Florida and a couple of quotes from Mexico that the ad says 5k but people end up paying way more, close to 10k. My husband said for only a couple thousand difference, he rather me have it here in Fl for 11k. How much was your surgery in mexico?? Thank you

I am so glad I have found this site. Hi everyone, I am in Delray Beach and searching for a doctor so I can have the sleeve done. I am going to be self pay so just trying to decide who I want to go with. I am so happy to see locals around