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Hi OKCpirate, I'm sure you've already said it somewhere on the boards before, but I have a hard time navigating here. If you don't mind me asking please, who did your surgery in Mexico and what hospital/facility did you have surgery in? Thanks

Hi Utah chica, have you told your Dr you are going to Mexico for the surgery and if so have they agreed to be supportive of your decision and do your follow up care/labs etc? I also live in Utah and had a very bad reaction from my PCP when I brought up WLS....I didn't even mention Mexico. So, I am looking for a new provider and hopefully have surgery in May. Which surgeon are you going with in Mexico and if you don't mind me asking how much are you paying? Thank you ahead of time for any help/response.

How did your conversation with your pcp go? I brought up that I was thinking about WLS at my last appt. And my pcp said that "seemed very drastic" and then prescribed me a $700/mo injection medicine for diabetes that my insurance wouldn't cover (I'm not diabetic) that has the side effect of weight loss (which I didn't even fill the prescription).... so I am looking for a new doctor and trying to come up with a way and courage to bring up the wls again. So please post how your conversation goes and how you brought it up. Thank you and good luck!

My starting weight is the same. Do you mind sharing how tall you are? I would be thrilled to loose 62lbs in 5 months! Great Job!!!

Thank you Redvet. I am going to move forward with this, regardless of my concerns and fears because I am really at the point of no matter what happens, it has to be better than doing nothing. Thanks for all the support. I am hoping to be end of January or early Feb, and hopefully I don't talk myself out of it before then .

Thank you glittereyes for your reply. Your response was really powerful. I had never thought about how my family will most likely lose me anyway or sooner if I don't go ahead with the surgery. I was feeling kind of selfish about considering the surgery and selfish to put my family through it, but it's more selfish to keep living this way - no energy, avoiding activities/social events, facing an early death, passing my unhealthy habits on to my daughter by my terrible example....

I was wondering what are some of the barriers that held some of you back from going ahead with WLS and how did you overcome it? I guess I'm not asking about financial or insurance barriers, those are hurdles that are part of the process, but mental or physical hurdles? I want to move forward with this so badly, but I'm afraid to and just wondering how to get past it. I'm afraid I'll fail, afraid of how to explain it to family, coworkers, afraid I won't be able to make the necessary lifestyle and mental changes to be successful LONG term, afraid I'll have a leak or complication (I'm most likely going to mexico as self pay), afraid I won't have enough energy to do my job or take care of my family after surgery, etc etc. Thanks!

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