Optifast vs Slimfast

Good day all,

Does anyone know what the difference is between Slimfast and Optifast? Since I am thinking of Mexico, I can't get the Optifast easily. Also, when on the fourteen days of the pre-op diet, are you really light headed? Or should I just follow what Trish and Dr. Ponce de Leon require?

Mexico patients - Has anyone had complications that required them to stay longer, was everything included?

Thanks for the info,

BeginsToday

If you are going to have the sleeve done, you wont have a 14 day diet it is just a few days. If you have the DS then you do 14 days.  Trish does not include air fare but I think everything else is incluced.  I used the slim fast and I had the 14 day diet liquid only , but the last 3 days were clear liquids only. 

Hi 

I went to a different facility and I had no complications, but if I had had any, they would not have been covered in the fee I paid.  Any extra days in the hotel were an extra fee (but dirt cheap compared to here).  You also can't buy extra travel coverage if you're going out of the country specifically for surgery (confirmed with Blue Cross). I found one company that I could have bought coverage from if the facility I went to was included on their list, which it wasn't. I have no idea now what the name of the company was because I deleted all the messages from them.

If you're considering going, those are some of the questions you need to ask the facilitator directly to be sure you know what you might be in for...and then think on the bright side and try to put it all out of your mind!! I figured the surgery I was going for was pretty safe, the surgeon was very experienced and the complication rate is extremely low, so I just tried not to worry about the possibility of anything else happening.