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Anyone using Dr. Elariny at Fairfax hospital in Virginia?

March 8th with Dr. Elariny at Fairfax Hospital.

Good luck on your surgery on Tursday!

Anyone know if powerade zero has any caffeine?

Thanks!

Just curios, do the costs you are quoted include the hospital costs? Or just the surgeon fee?

Sorry to hear that. I hope everything is ok with you.

Cool! I'm about an hour and a half southeast of you in St. Mary's county. My doctor is Dr. Elariny and I'll be sleeved in Fairfax Hospital in VA.

I'm with Dr. Elariny in Northern VA on March 8th

I'm scheduled for March 8. I'm from Maryland and scared as heck. I go for my endoscopy tomorrow and am terrified of it. I've never been put to sleep and that scares me. I have people depending on me and it scares me to think that something could happen to me. My mom was just diagnosed with cancer and was operated on Thursday and she needs me to take care of her. I gotta tell you, watching her go through a full hysterectomy almost made me change my mind about this :-/ I thought I should cancel and she wants me to go through with it as scheduled. I feel pretty torn right now.

I'm in MD too. The way for approval wasn't that bad for me, but the wait for the surgery is. My mom was just diagnosed with cancer and has to get a surgery ASAP so I will be postponing mine to take care of her. I am scheduled for march 8 but I think I'm going to postpone further :-/

Personally, I'd get my butt to the ER...waiting too long can make matters worse.

Ok I guess I need to call them Monday and find out what's up for 2013.

Yikes! I forgot about the deductible with the new year starting. That's ok though, it will be worth it. Thanks for the info.

If you don't mind me asking, what did this surgery cost you as far as everything other than the surgeon fees?

I have Anthem BCBS of CA but I didn't have to do any supervised diet. Hmmm I hope something hasn't change since my original approval. I pushed my surgery back to March 9.

I keep hearing stories about how it hurts to over eat after sleeve. I'm pre-sleeve (sleeve date march 8) and overrating is my problem...I just over ate cereal by probably 3 or 4 servings. I never feel full eating cereal for some reason. I feel gross after eating that much and I am in a bit of discomfort. Please tell me it's much worse than this post sleeve!??? I need something to stop me from doing this to myself.

Southern Maryland

Did you lose a lot at first and it's slow now or what?