Hi Stephanie,
I am from the Moreno Valley/San Bernardino Area.My dr. is Dr. taller from Pacific. I am a Kaiser Patient as well.. Good Luck!

hello my name is shantee i live in rancho bernardo area . i would like to be your friend. i got sleeved on july 1st and dr taller was my surgeon hes wonderful so nice and caring so dont worry or be nervous your in good hands. so far im 1 month post op i lost 21lbs im currently 277 i still have a long ways to go. goodluck on friday and i look forward to chatting with u and also to hearing about your weightloss journey

I know, I look great in clothes!  but when they come off it's not cute.  Honestly, I would rather live thin and have excess skin than be back at 315lbs any day!

You should contact Diana Cox. She can get you to a surgeon in CA who is doing really great self pay rates right now. Supposedly better rates than going out of the country & you'd still be here in CA.

 

Ah yes, I'm assuming that the $5,700 program fee is either my surgeron (Cirangle) or his partner (Josset).

I had to pay that out of pocket, no question. 

Yes, other surgeons are cheaper, but obviously cost wasn't the only consideration in picking my surgeon.  My philosophy was that I was going to have to live with the outcome of this surgery for the rest of my life, many decades (hopefully), so I need to hire the best surgeon I can.  I was fortunate that one of the best VSG surgeons in the country was only a two-hour drive away.  So I hired him and decided to pay the higher fee because he's a better surgeon, and his patients tend to lose higher than average amounts of weight with their support program as well.