I had my surgery 2/8/08 in Mexico. I'm not sure what had happened during my surgery but instead of it taking 30-45 minutes. I was in there 3 1/2 hrs with different explainations. They had to get the right band, a machine broke down and they were waiting for a part, one of the medical staff was not there. (I don't know the true answer) Everything seemed ok while I was there after that but none of the hospital staff spoke English at all. I had the surgery on a Friday and expected to be back to work on Tuesday. We'll Tuesday morning came and I took some pain medication and then ended up calling in sick. A friend from work called and told me to go to the doctor but by this point I couldn't even go to my purse to get the number to make a dr. appt. I felt better by the time my husband got home from work, but by now my port site was a disgusting pussy mess gushing out. I made a dr appt for the next day and was hospitalized for 4 days. The port site was very infected and I had to have another surgery to remove it. A nurse was coming to my house twice a day to change my wound (a 4 cm deep wound) I'm down to once a day now and will be going back to work on Monday 3/10/08 I had no idea that I would be off for soooo long or that I would have been soooo sick. I'm pretty healthy other than a bmi of 35. I had them leave the band in and may eventually have a new port put in but I'm scared of more surgery.
The reason I think I got the infection was they had me take a shower after the surgery without covering the wounds (they covered them with plastic after) and the Mexican water is NASTY.
My Dr thinks it was something done during surgery. I will never know. I just want people thinking of this surgery to know. I do belive in the surgery but would only get it done in the U.S. I just wish my insurance would have paid for it, because they're sure paying out now.
Just an fyi to pre-op patients
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I had my surgery 2/8/08 in Mexico. I'm not sure what had happened during my surgery but instead of it taking 30-45 minutes. I was in there 3 1/2 hrs with different explainations. They had to get the right band, a machine broke down and they were waiting for a part, one of the medical staff was not there. (I don't know the true answer) Everything seemed ok while I was there after that but none of the hospital staff spoke English at all. I had the surgery on a Friday and expected to be back to work on Tuesday. We'll Tuesday morning came and I took some pain medication and then ended up calling in sick. A friend from work called and told me to go to the doctor but by this point I couldn't even go to my purse to get the number to make a dr. appt. I felt better by the time my husband got home from work, but by now my port site was a disgusting pussy mess gushing out. I made a dr appt for the next day and was hospitalized for 4 days. The port site was very infected and I had to have another surgery to remove it. A nurse was coming to my house twice a day to change my wound (a 4 cm deep wound) I'm down to once a day now and will be going back to work on Monday 3/10/08 I had no idea that I would be off for soooo long or that I would have been soooo sick. I'm pretty healthy other than a bmi of 35. I had them leave the band in and may eventually have a new port put in but I'm scared of more surgery.
The reason I think I got the infection was they had me take a shower after the surgery without covering the wounds (they covered them with plastic after) and the Mexican water is NASTY.
My Dr thinks it was something done during surgery. I will never know. I just want people thinking of this surgery to know. I do belive in the surgery but would only get it done in the U.S. I just wish my insurance would have paid for it, because they're sure paying out now.
Thanks for listening all coments are welcome