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I am from Florida and had my surgery in Boca Raton with Dr. Shillingford. He was terrific and very caring. He spent an hour with me post op answering any and all questions that I had. I was self pay and he charged $10,500 which I think was very reasonable. Good luck to you!!

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I live in Florida too and I am having my surgery on July 25th with Dr. Illan in Mexico. So excited!

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I'm in Orlando. Surgery set for August 2nd with Dr Keith Kim at Celebration health.

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My surgeon was Dr. Jawad he and his team were amazing!! Tomorrow I will be 7 weeks out. I was a self pay patient I went to my first consult in January and would've been done with my appointments and good to go in march' date=' but scheduled my surgery in may because of my husbands work schedule. I took 2 weeks off work for recovery could've gone back at about 10 days with no issues! I had very little pain at all during the recovery, the worst was end of week 2 into week 3 at the large incision because my muscle was repairing itself. My husband went to Mexico for the sleeve dr. A Ortiz at OCC during my week 4. My journey has been wonderful!! If you have any questions feel free to ask![/quote']

I am also a patient of dr jawad!! I'm finishing up my six month diet and hopefully getting sleeved in November!!!

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Well, my date changed again, now this is it for sure, 16th of July is my big day. Started my liquid diet today, so far so good.

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I just moved to Dade City from central Illinois. I will be 2 years out in a few weeks.

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I'm in Yulee. Who was your surgeon??? I have my pre op on Wednesday with surgery scheduled for the 19th of July.

I had surgery at St. Vincent's riverside location. I used Dr. Miro Uchal.

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I had surgery at St. Vincent's riverside location. I used Dr. Miro Uchal.

I'm going to be having surgery Friday at Memorial with Dr. Baptista.

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I live in the Tampa area and my pre-op appt is July 23rd and surgery August 9th.

My surgeon is Dr John Dietrick in Tampa.

I made the mistake of reading someone's complications story and am scared to death! All I need is to have complications for my husband to tell you " I told you so."

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I live in Tampa and was planning to use Dr Deitrich, but my insurance said I had to use Dr Murr or Dr Gonzalvo at Tampa General....I was sleeved on 6/26 by Dr Gonzalvo....as with any surgery there might be little rough Patches during recovery, low energy, a little pain.......even with that, I love my sleeve. I Have lost 18# post op, 26# with my pre op diet!! The only regret is that I waited so long to decide to have it done. ;-)

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