mit_tens
decisions............decisions
Sep 08, 2010
Well, I guess I need to update my post as I am no longer going with the Duodenal Switch. I feel like it's a great surgery to have, just not for me. I have been looking on the OH boards since 09 and wanted to get the band at first, but luckily I researched it enough to know of the many complications people were having. Not everyone was having complications but enough so that it made me change my mind.After seeing that many patients having problems with the band, I decided to try on my own *again* to diet and exercise.I vanished off of OH for about a year and then returned when I had yet failed another diet :(
Then by total accident I ended up on the DS board which I thought might be the answer to my prayers. I learned a lot about it and asked a lot of questions. Googled probably every thing to do with DS imaginable....heh heh. I thought I was set in my mind to have this surgery. I called Dr Ungson (MX) and he seems so wonderful, as does his PC Luz. I completed the paperwork and was ready to submit my blood work when I started having second thoughts.
I was becoming more curious about the VSG *sleeve* and wanted to know more about this relatively new procedure. The VSG has been done for many years as a first part of the DS for people with SMO, but not really as a stand alone surgery. The DS is to risky of a surgery for someone with an extreme BMI and so they do the sleeve procedure to help them lose weight and then proceed with the switch part of the DS.
Well upon doing more research, and of course asking more questions I started to like the idea of the "sleeve"! To be honest I was scared of the malabsorption of the DS. I know people said it's a good thing to have but it truly scared me to have my intestines messed with. I think that cutting my stomach into a tiny lil banana shape was scary enough. :D
I began asking around about Foreign surgeons as my insurance excludes any and all things to do with WLS. I got many replies about Dr Aceves in Mexicali MX. I have googled him, emailed his patients, called his coordinator Nina and just about bugged anyone I could to get the info on this surgeon. I have tried looking for negative comments on him (not that I wanted to see it) but ya know you can't go in this with a blind eye....................and yet nothing negative on his man, Nada, zilch, squat! To put it lightly I was impressed. No leaks to date and incision infection is very low. Although I know infections can happen as I have gotten one from a gallbladder surgery here in my hometown, not fun.
So that's where I stand for the moment. My surgery is scheduled for Sept 27 and I am so happy and scared! My mom is going with me and I have to admit that I am surprised that she is. She is very conservative in her thinking so I was shocked that she was so supportive of me going to a Foreign country where you can't even drink the water! Vacation is one thing, but MAJOR SURGERY is a whole different story. I am so happy that she is so supportive, as is my husband, sister and close friends. I am so ready for this I can taste it, just not much of it ;)
Next post will be about my surgery post op and I can't wait to report!
God bless and Godspeed!
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Woodstock, CT
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29.6
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Surgery
10/11/2010
Surgery Date
Jul 20, 2010
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