Mellis

I may be a little late--but you can keep in mind for next time. I get my fills at the radiology clinic in Paris (RRRC). The radiologist does it under flouro--$350--does a very good job. There are 3 different ones who do it--i have had 2 of them--both did a good job. My band was in Mty also and they have never had any qualms about it. Usually I can call and get in the next day

Hi--I just found your note and hope I can still help you. I had surgery with Dr.Arturo Rodriguez in Monterrey and will be happy to help you.

that's why i get so frustrated when people refer to getting a band as "cheating". I think it takes MORE willpower to make sure you are eating the right things--when the soft stuff goes down so much easier

but isn't it just amazing how the sweets still go down so easy when regular food doesn't!!!

It sounds like you have a problem--have you had a flouroscopy done to make sure of the placement of the band?--just changing which brand of gastric band you have wouldn't necessarily take care of the problems you are reporting. I would get an x-ray/swallow done to make sure my band hadn't slipped. Just a thought.

I did not request deletion of the previous email. what i posted was an email sent to me a year ago that wasa sent me praising Dr. R. to prove how her opinion changes according to the facts she choses to make up. She cannot verify any of her allegations because they are false. just because she says they are true--doesn't make it so. I did look on OH--even what she says is there--Isn't!! she is making that up too. It truly makes me wonder now if all of what she says about other docs (other than hers) is false also--I would question anything she says because i know this to be false. as far as i'm concerned this discussion is over. If someone would like to contact me privately, i will reply individually, but i will not be open to the comments made by one person who considers herself the know it all

it is not appropriate to post a personal/private email that someone sent you

Wasa There is not a true piece in anything you said! I don't know where you think your facts are coming from, other than made up in your own brain. You cannot provide any documentation for any of your allegations--because they are false. If you could, you would provide them, other than just throwing statements out there and trying to scare people. Dr. R goes all over the world teaching and is considered one of the best in the world and one of the innovators of the surgery. The fact is, you are a coordinator for Dr Aceves--who pretends to be trying to help people with your "facts"--but instead you are just trying to scare them to your dr. And even though you rant and rave about other coordinators, you are no better and worse than most of them. And in the interest of fairness, I am working with Dr R--but I don't go around bashing everyone else. I think there are enough patients and enough dr's to go around--and that each person has to find the dr that is the right fit for them.

That is sure a change from what you were saying a year ago. In fact, you were telling me that he helped you with a problem even though he wasn't your doctor. I have checked, and he does NOT have a 20% erosian stat--so you must be talking about someone else.

Another thing I did when I was at my wits end--I made a very liquid cream of wheat(used double the amount of liquid-i used milk to up the protien)--remember giving cereal to baby so they would sleep through the night?--same effect!

That is the biggest difference I have seen between US docs and Mex docs--here in the US you have to be sick first--the Mex docs do the surgery before you get sick to prevent the comorbidities!!

absolutely!!! I've been overweight/obese for over 20 years--tried every "diet" out there and never lost it. I am now less than I have been in over 20 years. Yes, mine has been slower than a lot of people I have seen--but then--I'm not ON a diet any more!! If i want something-i eat it--just a whole lot less of it!