Thanks so much! Appreciate the info! I LOVE my sleeve and a dear friend is also wanting one. Her insurance PAYS!!! WOW! Mine wouldnt touch it so I went to see Dr Alvarez and am so glad I did.

Thanks again!

I'm working on getting a revision through Boeing Regence Traditional right now and jumping through my hoops.  Basically, my RNY staple line has disrupted (non-transected) and my pouch was not made small enough (original surgery in 2002) so for lack of a better description, I need repairs.  (Dr Peter Billing in Edmonds) They are working on my insurance approvals now but they don't forsee any problems.  I'll have to pay for my psych eval but I expected that.  I'm doing my nutritional 6mo thing through a Dietician's office my surgeon works with and they have me on an ultra-low carb thing

Hopfully, I'm looking at a late July, early August surgery and I'll be back with the loosers.  If anyone has any experience with Boeing Traditional and revision surgery, please send a note my way.  Particularly if you were able to bypass the 6mo supervised diet thing.

T

Happy face red not frowny ones!!  Yea!!!

I know both Dr Oh, and Dr Srikanth do the DS, and the sleeve is the first part of that. So, they both do the sleeve, but I don't know if they do it as a stand alone procedure (I suspect they do).

The surgeon that did my attempted RNY also does the VSG - It's Dr. Ross McMahon in Seattle at Swedish. I would have had a VSG with him, but my insurance doesn't cover it so I had to go to Madigan.

However, I don't know if he'll take a patient that was sleeved in Mexico - you'd have to call and ask, can't hurt to ask.