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Has anyone had the sleeve done in FL? I'm trying to find a good surgeon. Its either this or Mexicali. I live in Miami and the one place that does it here isn't the best when it comes to answering phone calls and getting back to me. I don't like that. So if anyone has had a surgeon in FL and it was a good experience please let me know. Thanks!

wow thats amazing!!! hope mine goes as well and that i have that kind of success! it would be awesome to see my whole family at christmas and look noticeably thinner i'm planning to get mine in mid august.

thank you!! i appreciate that! i keep getting positive feedback that makes me thing i'm on the right path. they told me sleeve patients require a 2 night stay in the hospital. but maybe she was doing really well and they sent her home a day early? but its good that it was an all around positive experience.

Jill thanks for the info. I already found a surgeon (Dr. Enrique Whittwell). He works out of 3 diff hospitals (south miami, UM jackson memorial, hialeah hospital) and in 10 yrs he's never had a complication. he hasn't done as many sleeves (600 is a lot! wow!) but he's done about 80 and hundreds of bypasses. but i feel confident he's good. good luck with your surgery!!!!!

omg i'm sooooo happy for you!!! good luck!! yea it sounds like we're in very similar boats. and what you said "maybe god made me wait this long for a reason" really hit home with me. wow. they say he has a plan and everything happens for a reason. this was all meant to be. we're going to be able to deal with motherhood way better when we're healthy. i'm sooo excited for you! hopefully i'll be a month or so behind :thumbup1: please please let me know how everything goes. lets keep in touch! i will probably have lots of questions for you!

I'm glad someone wrote about this. I'm actually dying to have kids. I just turned 30 and I've been waiting for things to fall into place (get a job, get a house, lose weight) b4 i have kids. But here I am at 30 and none of that has happened for me. I was like forget it, i just want a baby. So I went to my endo (i have pcos) he said he would rather me weigh less but it wasn't impossible to have a baby at my weight. but i told him i was starting to contemplate WLS. The lap band to be exact. He was super duper supportive. He thought it would be the best thing for me and he rooted for me to get it. However he told me I should get gastric bypass and not the sleeve. I was NOT cool with that. Then he said you know what you should get actually, the new one, whats it called, the sleeve. And I didn't really do research on it so I was like no. lol. But now that i've looked into it I'm dead set on the sleeve. But he told me he has a patient who had bypass and is pregnant now and she's doing just great! Also I spoke to a girl on OH that is pregnant now after she got her sleeve. I'm so anxious to get the sleeve so i can loose weight and have kids already! I want 2 or 3 kids. I wanted more but realistically i don't know if it will happen because i wanted to space them 3-4 years apart and i'm already 30. not to mention by the time i get the sleeve and get to the point where doctors say its ok to have kids i'll probably 32 or 33. way later than i wanted to have kids. i feel like right now i'm running out of time. i want babies! lol.

wow. i have united and i was denied. but its because my husband's job specifically excludes the surgery. :/ but good luck!!!

@Lillita oh wow really?? you'll definitely have to let me know how that goes. i was going to go with the doctors at H.O.P.E. center who are out of South Miami and Baptist. I haven't heard of De La Cruz Munoz. I will def look into him. And yes please please let me know about your experience!! Are you self pay or insurance?

Thank you Lou! I'd appreciate that greatly! Please let me know how your experience is.

really? i'm glad you're having a good experience. i'd love to hear more about it. are there any draw backs? i can wait a year. 2 yrs is alot. but a year i can do.

omigosh! i just stumbled upon this and its eerie how much i can relate. i'm 29 yrs old and i weigh 282lbs. i was diagnosed today with PCOS. i initially got on the pill when i was 18 and recently got off last year because i was sick of being on it. but i went back to having irregular periods (which is why i got on the pill in the first place). my gyno tells me i have PCOS. meanwhile i've been wanting a baby for such a long time. but i've been patiently waiting till all my ducks were in a row. go back to school, check, get a job (after school), get a house (when i get a job). so the only thing stopping me now is my weight. all my doctors say the same thing. i'm so sick of hearing that every single little thing thats wrong with me is because i'm fat. i'm sick of coming out of the doctors office and feeling subhuman. unworthy of being a mother. i feel...like i'll never be normal. i'll always be judged. its a horrible feeling. people always say "have you ever thought of surgery?" but i just think thats the absolute last resort. i have had such bad experience with doctors that i'm scared to death of it. plus i feel like it will cause other problems and i might end up regretting it. i dunno. but i really wanna have a baby! at this point...(you know i've tried everything) i will do anything to have a child. and if that means getting the lap band....i'll do it. i would really appreciate any advice or guidance you all can give me. i'm still not convinced. i want to hear the real stories from you guys. also, is it true you can't get pregnant for 2 yrs after you get the lap band? because i can't wait that long.