My Surgery with Dr. Aceves and MX! Level of care before and after surgery!

August 26, 2011

Hello Everyone,

First of all I want to say thanks to everyone in this group. I had the VSG with

Dr. A on 6/18/11, my expirience was 5 star. Post-op I had a minor complication

not related to my surgery with Dr. A.

Well, I have been expiriencing servere gastritis and acid production for years

before having surgery. Dr.'s in the states told me it was my diet and so on.

After having surgery, symtoms stoped until 3 weeks ago. Around the same time

Dr. Campos(Awesome) informed me that pathology report from the removed portion

of my stomach had come back positive for H pylori. That had totally shed the

light on the pain I was expiriencing.

After learning this I immediaatley went to my local ER, due to it being

difficult to drink or eat anything. ER DR. explained to me that they don't do h

pylori testing or treatment in the ER since it's noirmally not an emergency. I

explained to him that I wasnt able to consume anything, I was severlly

dehydrated and weak my case was an emergency. ER Dr did not do urine test or

blood work he reffered me to a specialist and scheduled an appointment to have

an endoscope. My only problem was my appointment, was 45 days away. (F***

HMO's)... Once discharged the only thing the ER Dr. put on my paperwork was

heart burn... I told him you know damm well I dont have heartburn and it h

pylori) So I paid a co pay of $250 for them to tell me to fly a kite.

After going thru this the next day I call Dr. A's and Dr. C's office and they

were extremly helpful. Luckily I only live 3 hours away, Dr. Campos did the

follow up free of charge and prescribed the necessary medications to treat my

condition. (All meds total cost was about $190.00.)

I now have a diffrent view on our the healthcare industry in the States. These

people think they are praticly gods, never wrong and every band aid is worth a

million dollars. And the truth of the matter is that US Dr.s are full of it and

are here to serve only the insurance and pharmacuetical companies. The worst

part is Dr's here suck, on average a us bariatric surgeon does about 250 surgery

in thier career liftime. Dr.A has performed over 1,500 procedures. Just

because Dr.A is in a diffrent geographical area doesnt mean the human anatomy

will change as you cross the border.

Wells things are staring feel better for me, Thanks Dr. A, Dr. C you guys rock!

My Stats:

Before Suregery 389 lbs

Day of Surgery 376 lbs

Week 4 354 lbs

Week 8 332 lbs

right now I am 323.lbs

total weight loss is 66lbs....YEAH!

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