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I had a really good experience with my doctor His facility is very very clean .
I was treated like I was family by my doctor and his staff.
I had to look up all the doctors that I could before I jumped up and decided.
I studied day and night until I found the right one for me His name is Sergio Quinones and he is a doll.
His staff are so very sweet and they speak English...good for me.
Some of the nurses speak Spanish but their was always some one that could help them talk to me and tell me the procedures that was going to be done on me.
I really do not know to much about Mexico or other hospitals or facility but were I went was sweet. So I hope this is some good info that can and might help you. I f you would like more info please feel free to send me a message back.
GOOD LUCK...hope you have a good journey.
:)
So first off you're not going to die over there. :) They have very talented surgeons just like here. The paradigm, the idea of how things are in Mexico are greatly slanted in the media, I found out when I went there. It's also very different from Mexican Americans living here.
My particular surgeon lives in El Paso, TX and crosses the border to perform his surgeries daily. Now I don't know what his citizenship status is, but he's got a very (VERY) nice house in El Paso lol...
So the particular hospital where I went, Star Medica, had some damn good doctors and nurses. Nothing over there was out of the ordinary. I had a girl take my blood - and my veins are CRAPPPPPP... LIKE BAD. I almost always have someone rolling my veins, sticking thru them, or plain just can't find the damn things. I'm fat so that doesn't help. I have seriously considered tattooing a ---> where it is. NO JOKE. Anyway, rather than just pin cushion me, she took her time. It took her 6 or 8 minutes before finding the spot she wanted but once she stuck me, it was with the butterfly needle (the only one that has ever worked) and WHAM - perfect. I was like "ahhh... BUENO!!"
The hospital staff was good and they were very respectful. It helped when I used my cell phone for google translate for important stuff. Otherwise, most people spoke enough english to get by.
I was rolled down to surgery with the same fears you have now but it was fine. i actually was rolled into recovery to wait and be prepped then the surgery room. i dont remember anything after that other than waking up in recovery. i was out 1 hour, tops. I know this because there was a big clock on the wall and i noticed the time before and after. I kept asking anyone nearby if I'd had the surgery. I was in no pain at all just woozy from the meds but i couldn't figure out if I'd done it or not. lol... they all assured me I had.
After that I was sore, but I was cut, so it was to be expected. Two days later I flew home. Been kick ass ever since - dropped 20lbs or so in a lil over a week. Sounds astonishing but if you go by percentages, it really isn't that much because of how heavy i was: ~315 before preop diet, 305 pre-op, 285 now and surgery was Jan 28. I'm walking around with no problems either - and today I dont even wear bandages on my incisions nor do I have any pain getting up or anything. I went back to work that monday - so about 3 or 4 days after surgery.
Best decision I ever made. If you're here and thinking about it - not going will kill you. Going to Mexico will save your life, not end it.
Good luck :)
So happy for my friend she decided that the surgery is for her.
She is going to have surgery with the same doctor as I did so I hope she will have the same experience as I did.
The truth is she will love Dr.Sergio Quinones and his staff they are so great and sweet people I was amazed.
They treated me as one of their own I felt so at home,it is so peaceful and quit and very clean.
I had let her know that they will to anything she ask for so she feel comforterbul.
I really did have a good experience and I would recommend any body to go to Tijuana and have surgery with my doctor.
I'm so scared to go to mexico to have the procedure. Can anyone share their experience with the area. I don't want to die over there.
I was at the Florence Oasis hospital but a friend recently came back and said they were remodeling it.
I went with Dr Mario camelo Ramos my experience was good of course their hospitals aren't like the US hospitals but the staff was nice. I'm 10 months after the surgery and I'm 2 pounds short of 100lbs lost with no exercise at all. ?
Hey,
I and my fiancé are scheduled with Dr G. on Feb 19th. I was wondering how your stay was. I was initially concerned about the san Juan Clinica being smaller and I just need some reassurance that this place is not some hole in the wall. I've been searching all over the web for reviews on Dr. G. and they are far and few in between. His credentials seem amazing. He has been in practice for a long time and when I asked his staff about complications they reassured me that there were none, only thing to report were minor skin infections from people not taking care of their incision sites.
You are now just short of a year post op, how is your sleeve treating you? How did your PCP react when you told them you had the sleeve in mexico? any comments or insight to your stay, how you were treated, the facility, the man himself would be much appreciated!
Thanks :)
Niki
Maaaaaaan.... I feel the same way. My nerves are going crazy too. My fiancé and I are both going and I'm the one who had this fabulous idea. After he did research he was definitely on board too.. I would feel horrible if anything happend.. but I think it's just me being a "what if" type of person. I always tend to think of the horrible things vs. The great outcome. He and I are both going with Dr francisco Gonzalez at the San Juan clinica. He has years of experience and I've had GREAT communication with the tourism company as well as the nutritionist that will be visiting us. We are scheduled for the 19th. Good luck tomorrow I'm sure everything will be great! Check in and let me know how everything goes!
Heading to the Amerimed hospital tomorrow. I am extremely nervous, lol that's why I need these forums to remind me that I am going to be OK. I wish I could have gotten a two week prescription for Xanax, lol I sure feel a lot of anxiety. Who did you decide to go with?
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