Western Suburbs anyone..? Aurora area...

sarae · June 9, 2009

I haven't seen anyone on this forum from the Aurora area... I wanted to see if anyone else has had Dr. Rosen from Life Weigh Bariatrics in Downers Grove...

Jimw01 · June 24, 2009

Hi sara hope everything went well for you and your feeling ok. I went to Dr rosens seminar at Good Sam a couple of weeks ago, he had an emergency and couldnt make it that night so i didnt get to meet him but the two barbs gave the presentation and it was fine. Now im getting ready to schedule the consultation appointment and if you dont mind please let me know what your experiance was like at lifewiegh and how the surgury went. Sorry no one was able to give you a heads up but maybe you could do it for me i would appreciate it.

sarae · June 24, 2009

Hello I had a pretty great experience so far with Lifeweigh and their staff. My surgery was last Friday and everything went fine.. I'm still recovering and my first post op appointment is tomorrow so hopefully Dr. Rosen says everything is fine and by Friday I'll get to start eating pureed stuff

I would recommend him though. I've looked through this forum quite a bit and noticed that a lot of people have so many questions about their diets and whats ok and how things have gone wrong and I haven't experienced any of that. Dr. Rosen is really thorough with his diets and he really has the patients health in mind. I mean he's been really honest and been able to answer all my questions. I'm a real smart ass and I loved that Dr. Rosen could answer every stupid and hard question I had to ask. Plus he's never had a patient die or have serious complications which was a very nice perk :frown:

Let me know if you have anymore questions I know how much I would've appreciated having known someone that had used Lifeweigh but since I didn't I'm glad to be the guinea pig for someone else.

Jimw01 · June 30, 2009

Hi again sara thanks for taking the time to let me know how your experience was.I finally got a response from my insurance and scheduled my consultation, first available appointment one month, wow this sure is popular, anyway the insurance is requiring a six month physician supervised diet did you go through a smiler process and if so when you completed it how long did you have to wait for approval for the surgery and how long till Dr Rosen schedualed it. I'm just curious as i look at the calender and wonder how the next year of my life is going to play out, i feel a kind of nervous excitement whenever i start thinking about it. Hope everything is going well for you and thanks alot for filling me in on some of the details.

sarae · July 7, 2009

His office is pretty busy.. my first appointment took about a month also.

I actually spoke with my PCP last March and he told me that I would have to go on a 1 year supervised diet and go through meetings with a psychiatrist and nutritionist. After my one year was up then he referred me to Dr. Rosen... and I made an appointment that was, like I said, a month later. After that I had a follow up appointment about another month later then I had my pre-op appointment two weeks after that and finally my surgery was another 2 weeks after that.

So in total I did my supervised diet from March 2008-March 2009.

Then my first appt. with Rosen was in early April, second one was in early May (this is when we scheduled my surgery). Pre-op appt. was June 4th and finally my surgery was June 19th.

Oh and there were about a million tests and x-rays, ultrasounds, blood work, all that good crap in the couple months leading up to surgery.

And I had my first post op appt a couple weeks ago and everything is going fine. I haven't had any problems and I'm pretty much feeling like myself again. I think my first fill is going to be next Wednesday which I'm kind of nervous about but as far as I know Dr. Rosen does small fills because he wants to avoid having to unfill. Good luck let me know if you have any more questions!