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I am starting the process and have now turned in my forms to get the initial consult.

However, i am curious what people have thought of Chi Franciscan in federal way, wa? How did you find the experience? How long from initial consult to surgery? Etc.

Thanks!

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I am starting the process and have now turned in my forms to get the initial consult.
However, i am curious what people have thought of Chi Franciscan in federal way, wa? How did you find the experience? How long from initial consult to surgery? Etc.

Thanks!


My surgeon is Dr. Myur Srikanth from center for weightloss surgery at Chi Franciscan. His practice is separate from the hospital but affiliated with it. All my testing and my surgery was done as an outpatient at Chi Franciscan. Love him. Great bedside manner. Had wonderful experiences with all my nurses pre and post op.

My initial consult was March 2017, surgery initially scheduled for July but for personal reasons I had to push back to August 2017. Your consult to completion will be dependent upon your insurance requirements. Not necessarily the surgeon’s timeline.

Chi Franciscan is also awesome when it comes to appointments for all the required testing. I was able to do it all in one day. (X-rays, blood, scans etc)

Good luck to you.


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Great to hear! That is great the appts were in one day, it's a bit of a drive to this place for me and the less visits the better.

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Great to hear! That is great the appts were in one day, it's a bit of a drive to this place for me and the less visits the better.

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It was for me too, so having all that testing done in one day meant less time off from work.


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I had the duodenal switch by Srikanth in 12/2019. By 7/2021 I was dying of malnutrition. I was taking all my Vitamins and drinking my Protein Shakes - not the pre made ones but the ones you make yourself. I was blacking out, collapsing in parking lots, I couldn’t drive because I was blacking out while I was driving, it got so bad my husband had to bath me. I couldn’t be left alone. I had called Srikanth’s office to schedule an appointment to talk about the symptoms when they first started but was told that I needed to call my PCP so I scheduled an appointment with her. I was put on various medications because my BP was typically around 67/52, I had ear problems in addition to blacking out, collapsing, throwing up any food I could get down IF I could get food down. I eventually ended up in the ER and was admitted for a little over 2 months for malnutrition. Sometimes when you have the duodenal switch your stomach doesn’t absorb enough nutrients and your body will start shutting down. It was awful. Now I’m on TPN and have my vitamins, Proteins, carbohydrates, and electrolytes pumped through my blood stream 12 hours a day. I’ve had sepsis 3 times in 2 months. I’m not saying it happens to everyone but the nurses in the hospital said they see this all the time. No one mentioned this before surgery. No one helped me after surgery. Srikanth’s office told me to go see my PCP who is not a specialist in weight loss surgery. I’m so dissatisfied with Srikanth’s office with the exception of Karli. She is wonderful but my issues came on before she started working there but now I have a resentment against there office and don’t ever want to go back. It MAY not happen to you BUT watch out for those symptoms.

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Oh no. So sorry to hear that!! Is there any way to reverse the surgery?
Hope you get to feeling better. 🙏🏻

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