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I had decided to have my surgery with Dr. Quionnes in February. Now I realize that he gives epidurals and you have a catheter. I'm not sure what to do know because I have gotten extremely sick (violently vomiting) after I have had an epidural. I also have lower back problems and my pcp said that this could aggravate my problem and make it worse. The catheter thing...well I just hate catheters, Anyway I need advice. I am ready to choose another doctor now and I don't know if I am making a big deal out of nothing or not. Should I just suck it up and deal with it? Do other doctors use epidurals and catheters? Please help!

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Hi! My impression is that very few Mexican surgeons use epidurals or catheters. I base this on my own experience with the much-revered Dr. Illan and on reading many ladies' blogs of their Mexican Sleeve experiences.

I know Dr. Illan is taking a short time off for Christmas, but my impression is that he has good availability thru the 20th or so and again in January. Good luck!!

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I had surgery with Dr. Illan too, but I researched a lot of different surgeons and I can't think of a single one that I looked into that uses an epidural. Great thing about Dr. Illan, too, is that there is no drain. I'm not a big fan of drains.

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I've never heard of an epidural being used for VSG, and I would think that anything that is likely to induce violent vomitting is to be avoided. Never had a catheter either... was up quite quickly, used a commode chair once and then walked to the loo with a little help.

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I don't understand why they would use a catheter.... I was up walking only two hours after I got back to my room.... I mean even if u can't be up they could use the cammode or even a bed pan.., its good for u to be up walking as soon as possible! I'm in the hospital now and was unable to go to the bathroom (I had surgery four months ago) and they said a catheter is the last resort! So I bed panned it lol

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I too had my surgery in Mexico, not sure why they would use an epidural. You may want to double check this. I think an epidural only keeps you numb from the waist down; your stomach is above your waist. I know they may use epidural(twilight sedation) and a catheter for plastic surgery.

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