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Thank you so much for your recommendation. 
on 2/22/15 9:36 am
I went through www.tijuanabariatrics.com and I am booked and set for surgery with Dr. Garcia on March 11th. I have spoken with many of his previous patients even the coordinator is a previous patient (I found many others on Dr. Garcia's FB page). He is a well respected doctor and the hospital is amazing and only a few blocks from the US boarder and the ocean, win win ;) I did so much research and I couldn't be happier with my choice.
Gale, do you know what is covered in the medical tourism insurance that dr. kelly offers in his fee quote. is that just coverage for trip cancellation insurance or is it coverage to pay or medical bills when you get back to the U.S and have complications. I'm using corvala at hospital angeles but he doesn't offer the medical tourism insurance. IF I can get coverage when I get back to the u.s for any post op complications that would give me piece of mind as I don't think my u.s health insurance will cover it.
on 2/22/15 9:32 am
My surgery date is March 11th in Tijuana with Dr. Garcia, GOOD LUCK and YAY for us!! :)
on 2/22/15 9:28 am
I am so excited to start this journey. During this whole planning and preparing, I was most nervous about flying. Being a large passenger and walking through the airport knowing my legs and back would start hurting bad. I sent a request for information in with Southwest and instead of receiving an email reply I received a phone call. I was told that I would be taken are of there and back. A wheelchair would be there for me if needed and that I can board first to get the front row seating. That phone call eased my mind completely! I fly out of Dulles Airport (VA) to San Diego on the 10th of March and will be flying home on the 17th. surgery is set up with Dr. Garcia (who I am FB friends with and seeing all of his happy patients, LOVE IT!!) He is such a sweet man! My coordinator has been amazing. I went to www.tijuanabariatrics.com because I knew I wanted to get the Duodenal Switch and I wanted it done in Tijuana. Everything came together perfectly for me. I am beyond excited for my trip and for my surgery!
Is anyone else going to be in Tijuana around that time in March? Are you getting the DS surgery or had it?
Hello freddie8_8, I fell ya on the support issue as I am not getting support from my daughters as well. All I hear is bad things from them when I tell them I want to go to Mexico to get the surgery. And you got to love the standard responses, why don't you change your diet or exercise when they already know I have 4 herniated disc's in my neck and another 4 in my lower back from a car accident years ago and it hurts to much to exercise, even more since I gained all of this weight.
I see you spoke about Dr. Kim in Dallas and I was wondering what he is charging for the gastric sleeve surgery? I have 2 doctors I really like in Mexico and that is Dr. Ramos Kelly and Dr. Ariel Ortiz and if I can find a doctor in the US at a good price to keep my daughters quiet I would go there if the doctor is as good.
Thank you for your detailed post on your experience, I'm scheduled to be sleeved with Dr Lopez March 5th, getting a little nervous.
I am using corvala at hospital angele for a vertical sleeve in june of 2015. I have a bmi of 44. the hospital angeles case coordinator quickly steered me away from considering the plication procedure as they have apparently had greater longer term success with the vertical sleeve with less complications. I was originally considering the plicantion procedure because it is less invasive.
I finally heard back from MBC today. I have decided to stick with them since my friend's surgeon is there. I did get a reply email from Anakaren from Dr. Lopez' office, and was shocked to see the special pricing of the sleeve at Vida was only $4600! I'll be paying $4500 at Mi. :( oh well, I'm still excited/nervous/thrilled that I have a date set.
My surgery date is Friday, March 13th (Friday the 13th!!) Luckily, I am not superstitious!!
No need to worry M.. Just call or email Anakaren.. I just came home today from being sleeved by Dr. Lopez and this may sound crazy but I had a great time in TJ, Mex. the surgery went off without a hitch and we had a blast. My new sleeve brother and sister and I hung out all week long. 3 of us had our surgery on Monday..
