Get the real deal on beauty treatments—real doctors, real reviews, and real photos with real results.Here's how we earn your trust.

POSTED UNDER Gastric Sleeve Surgery REVIEWS

Tired of being FAT!! Tijuana Here I Come...ahh

ORIGINAL POST

Hello friends.. so I wanted to thank all you guys...

Kkmedrano
$4,300
Hello friends.. so I wanted to thank all you guys that give reviews and share your life with us. I have been debating on writing a review or not but this website and has helped me soo much in informing my self and hearing other peoples stories I need to pay it forward. I am 31 years old mother of 2 have been married a bunch of years and for the last about 10 ate my emotions to hit 199 in 5'1. I have been reading tuns of reviews on doctors in tijuana. Long story short I don't have health insurance and if I had it I probably won't get approved due to possible low BMI and I've never had a history of documented medical history. Well to be honest who knows if I would get approved I can't wait any longer to get insurance and deal with all that. I have made up my mind tijuana here I come. So I've tried to contact Dr.Ramos kelly with NO luck. My cousin has a friend that the whole family went to a Dr. Alberto Michel. I have looked to find nothing on this doctor only on YouTube. So about 2 years ago I went to a consultation with Dr Michel ( father) he is a general surgeant that helped his son which is the bariatric surgeant. He was nice polite but I wonder why wasn't the son Dr Alberto michel not giving me the consult. I liked this hospital it was nice and clean his office was organized and elegant I did ask him if he was the one to perform the surgery and he said "no my son does it". Well 2 years after a bunch of reviews read and videos watched and more waight gained. I wanted to go with Dr maytorena too since everyone loves him. But I think I want to be at a hospital not a surgery center. So I went on another consult with the same Dr Michel again his dad not Dr Alberto. Well this time I'm sure that is the doctor for me. there were lots of people walking down the hall with drains and lots of people waiting in the waiting room that looked dam good. So this time I've booked my surgery for December 8 2016
Height 5'1
Cw 199.6
Cost 4,300

Kkmedrano's provider

Dr Alberto michel

Replies (3)

User Avatar
November 14, 2016

Hey there, and welcome! Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us. I hope you'll enjoy all the wonderful support you'll get from this amazing community. Have you checked out the Sleeve Gastrectomy Forum yet? It's a great starting point if you're looking for surgery buddies, or just a bit of support to help you on your way. The post below is a good example of the type of information you can find in there. Hope you’ll enjoy reading it, and maybe we’ll see you chatting in there soon. Good luck, and please keep us posted.

Top 10 Tips For Before and After Gastric Sleeve Surgery

December 23, 2016
Why were you unable to reach Dr.Kelly?
User Avatar
August 23, 2017
Can you tell me about your surgery experience with Dr. Michel, I am having surgery in Oct.
UPDATED FROM Kkmedrano
23 days pre

Psychiatric and ekg eval done today

Kkmedrano
Psychiatric and EKG eval done today.so my best friend was off work today.so she offered to drive me down to tj to get pre-op appt done since I'm scared to drive down there. I got there to do EKG done. I had my labs done on the day of consult so I just needed to get that done before meeting with the psychiatrist and the medical internist I guess he looks at my general health and goes over my labs and EKG. The EKG was fast I took longer to take of my top. The Tech was nice and the place was clean. I did take a pic of the hospital lobby I was impressed. Now the psychologist was soo fricken cute and young. I really liked the way she talked to me she made me feel at ease with my decision. I think they just want to make sure you are doing it for you not for anyone else, and that your sure this is for you. I really want to tell you guys everything we talked about but it takes for ever to write and read plus half the time was just thinking how cute this girl was I couldnt belive she was a psychologist. I really didn't want to post pics of my self but I have to... hear it goes..

Replies (0)

UPDATED FROM Kkmedrano
15 days pre

Be careful who you tell...

Kkmedrano
Hey guys so I told one of my coworkers/ friend about my surgery..bad idea she is skinny and a health freak what the he'll did I expect.. i just thought she would be supportive since I have mention that I wanted to get it done sometime before and she seemed to think it was a good idea.. so I heard it again " I'm just taking the easy way out" well I'm not to sure whats so easy about it. Dam it that's the first thing I didn't want to hear is negative comments. She put a doubt again in my brain..i really don't have any sickness or health problems at this time besides obisity what if I do have a sickness after surgery?.. I'm weeks away and I'm worried again.i just need to stay positive.

Replies (7)

User Avatar
December 13, 2016
This is why I haven't told anyone other than my husband. There is a great book called The Emotional First Aid Kit: A Practical Guide to Bariatric Surgery by Cynthia Alexander that I am reading and found very helpful. It helps you think through your decision to have the surgery, weigh the pros and cons, and gives great tips to deal with second guessing your decision and coping with others that are not supportive of your decision. I highly recommend it.
December 14, 2016
I wish I would have head of it:)
December 14, 2016
Sorry *heard*
User Avatar
December 14, 2016
People are so judgmental when it comes to others! We make the best decisions that we do for ourselves! This surgery is definitely not the easy way out, it MAKES you accountable to your decision for this lifestyle change! You won't be able to eat in the same manner that you have prior to it. We all have our reasons for getting the surgery and I'm sure none of which were taken lightly! This is exactly the reason I don't have my face posted. Let one person I know see it and everyone I know will be calling me trying to discourage me from getting it... especially in Mexico. The bottom line is we have to live our lives for us and no one is accountable to our own being besides our own self! Take it with a grain of salt, there are enough doubts or second guessing that you are going to experience without anyone adding to it!
December 15, 2016
Thank you so much. Its so true.
December 15, 2016
Heres a suggestion. Discovered it years ago and it works everytime. Try this when people say crazy jacked up negative comments, look them straight in the eye and say "whats' motivating you to say that?", "whats really motivating me to say that?" Throws the person off big time!
December 15, 2016
Thank you for ur advice I will try it.